In the opening scene to 1950’s La Ronde, the master of ceremonies (Anton Walbrook) walks across the stage and the camera follows him. It goes from one side to the other as...
Scarlett Johansson has always been an unreliable narrator of sexuality and femininity in its primitive form. The blonde bombshell of the '50s and '60s reincarnated, her breasts and her voluptuous figure, her...
2024 marks the centennial of Columbia Pictures, the studio behind the Spider-Man franchise, Ghostbusters, The Bridge On The River Kwai, On The Waterfront, The Social Network, and Taxi Driver; among many other...
It is March Madness and Criterion has six new releases on the horizon. One of them, the 1941 drama The Devil And Daniel Webster, is a re-release, but with a new title....
Tycoon Marlon Viedt (Travis Fimmel) sends former detective turned freelance investigator David Carmichael (Guy Pearce) into Zone 414 – Veidt's safe zone for interacting with his lifelike robots in all manner of...
After a flirtatious meeting with Miranda Jeffries (Mary Stuart Masterson) at Yale, Alex Finch (Robert Downey Jr.) remembers his past life as her late father, Louie Jeffries (Christopher McDonald). Alex renews his...
This should have been written last year to mark seventy years since its release, but even then, rewatching this all-time classic thriller stands out highly as one of the best films of...
I hesitated for so long before writing this essay, for one, because comparing two performances is a bizarre thing to do, especially without bias. It’s not like science where people can measure...
