Cinema
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are