MoviePass: What Did We Learn?
MoviePass finally declared itself dead this past week. This would seem to finally close the…
CIRCUS (Year of the Month)
One of the things I love best about the first generation of Soviet art is…
A MoviePass Memorial
MoviePass is not surely alive, roaring like a lion It’s merely dead. MoviePass, the company…
Directional Punching
In the long run, it really would’ve been better had the Academy hired me to…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on MODERN TIMES
I, a self-proclaimed cinephile, had never seen a Charlie Chaplin film. While I had enjoyed…
Film on the Internet: THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
In one of my favorite bits of movie adaptation trivia, Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of…
Year of the Month: The Dystopian Utopia of THINGS TO COME
The twenties and thirties were full of paranoid visions of the future. In Britain, Aldous…
New on DVD and Blu-Ray
This week, Criterion is releasing Ernst Lubitsch’s final masterpiece Cluny Brown and also giving it…
The Three High Concepts Of Breaking Bad
I think a big part of the success of Breaking Bad comes down to the…
The best songs of 1936, according to the Academy
Few Academy Awards categories have as dynamic a history as Best Original Song. The category…