"Here, liminal, suspended between floors, everything is left to imagination." Read More
Oliver Stone’s Vietnam War trilogy (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Heaven and Earth) helped shape America’s collective memory of the Vietnam War at a crucial moment. Read More
In Thelma & Louise, the only image more combustible than a Polaroid picture is that of femininity. Read More
Viewed through the lens of 2018, Kiss Me Deadly is decidedly modern in its depiction of an America on the brink. Read More
In Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, the flames are a blinding white, almost supernatural in their brightness. Read More
An epic, classical adventure, there is something dream-like about The Lost City of Z's narrative, as if it were conjured up in the imagination and memory of the characters themselves. Read More
On heat and the occult in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Read More
It's only in a fluid, sun-dazed space like this that a film like Rango can make any sense. Read More
Ostensibly the story of a spoiled Southern belle's slightly deranged love life, Jezebel is more psychologically interesting than it has any right to be. Read More
Burning through American dreams in the day-glo noir of Miami Blues Read More
Tennessee Williams plays are full of many things—verbal gymnastics most of all—but the film versions will always be, for me, about the lush, swollen catalysts of deep summer. Read More