We Failed This Film: Joe Carnahan’s ‘The Grey’
A Series by Dylan Moses Griffin
‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’ is a Modest Trailblazer
“Heller draws a refreshing beauty from her “this is what it is” approach in The Diary of a Teenage Girl, getting tenderness out of content too often used simply to titillate, shock or be used for didactic tirades.”
The Dueling Cavalier: Proof of Premise in ‘Inside Out’
A Column by Max Bledstein
His Blazing Automatics: What the Release Date Push for Jeff Nichols’ ‘Midnight Special’ Means
A Column by Dylan Moses Griffin
Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Black Orpheus’ (Marcel Camus, 1959)
A Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
The Dueling Cavalier: ‘Tangerine,’ ‘Toy Story’ and Technology in Storytelling
A Column by Max Bledstein
Rogue Sequel: In Defence of John Woo’s ‘Mission: Impossible II’
“Fully asserting the series reboot mantra, M:I II eschews the original’s ethos in favour of half a Hitchcock riff (a lot of Notorious, with a pinch of To Catch a Thief) and half traditional, near self-parodic Woo bombast.”
Back to the Beginning: John Cassavetes’ ‘Shadows’ (1959)
The Fifth and Final Installment of “Tightrope Cinema: John Cassavetes’ Highwire World” by Phuong Le
We Failed This Film: Lana and Andy Wachowski’s ‘Speed Racer’
A Series by Dylan Moses Griffin
His Blazing Automatics: The Cinematic Connection of Chan-wook Park’s ‘Oldboy’ and Kihachi Okamoto’s ‘The Sword of Doom’
A Column by Dylan Moses Griffin