Goon is the rare sports film that loves it subject and is smart enough not to romanticize it. Read More
Body Double is a dizzyingly perverse, pastel-hued celebration of cinematic pastiche and formalist trickery. Read More
Through a combination of live-action and stop-motion, Jan Švankmajer’s Alice leans into the unsettling nature of assemblage. Read More
In George Washington, David Gordon Green uses time the way a painter might use negative space—he shapes our understanding of what we’re seeing, not through a series of plot points, but by giving us moments that, taken alone, seem random or incidental. Read More
As film is primarily a visual artform, a film series presents us with the most in-depth way to view and examine the aging process in art. Read More
The moment I always return to isn’t one of Videodrome’s spectacular set pieces, but it is what I consider the film’s Cronenberg turn: the instant you understand that that’s what you’re watching, where the film admits its appetite for what bodies can stand and do. Read More
By looking at illness for what it is in Todd Haynes' Safe, we begin to uncover the true terror of this masterpiece. Read More
Though we continue to revere stories like The Wizard of Oz as folklore, 2018 demands that we revisit the canon—our cultural body of work—while reckoning with the entertainment industry’s brutal legacy of abuse. Read More
Johnny Knoxville’s presence as a star has a lot to do with the desire of young men to test their bodies—not in rituals that prove their manhood, but in experiments that question its elasticity, its dexterity, its fluidity. Read More
A new crop of female auteurs is challenging The Male Gaze. Read More
Pet Sematary is not a movie that cares about your sensitivities. What it does care about, to the point of obsession, is bodies—and the horrors that can befall them. Read More