My Name is Alfred Hitchcock
If you don’t read the fine print, you would imagine My Name is Alfred Hitchcock is a documentary about the filmmaker, using the director’s own words to narrate the story of his life and work. It even...
View ArticleLa Cocina
It has often been said that the way to a man – or woman’s – heart is through their stomach, but process it takes to get there can be a lot less romantic. Home cooking is a therapeutic, and indeed...
View ArticleAdrianne & The Castle
“If architecture is like frozen music, in our house, it’s like frozen opera.” This is how Alan St. George describes the DIY castle that he’s built over nearly half a century in rural Illinois, devoted...
View ArticleDahomey
In November of 2021, 26 artifacts looted in the 19th century by French colonial troops from the West African Kingdom of Dahomey were returned to the Republic of Benin. The reimportation of the...
View ArticleHoly Hell! Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Every era gets the comedy juggernaut it deserves, though that’s not always for the best. In the early aughts, American life was in shambles. Between 9/11, the endless “War on Terror” that engulfed...
View ArticleEmilia Pérez
The first act of Emilia Pérez is a carnival of unexpected moments. While the opening credits are in French, the first words from Zoe Saldaña are in Spanish. Soon, she’s not just speaking but singing,...
View ArticleOeuvre: Spielberg: Always
There’s a certain school of critical thought, less prevalent now but common in college dorms around the release of 2005’s Munich, that serious Spielberg was the best Spielberg. This conception was an...
View ArticleAbsolution
With Liam Neeson set to retire from action movies at the end of 2025, the 72-year-old actor may be forgiven for signing on for a memory-loss plot that recycles a somber theme he tackled just two years...
View ArticleThe Graduates
Currently, the subject of gun violence in schools is a hot topic both on and off the screen. Everyday seems to bring with it the same tragedy in a new location: a disgruntled person, usually male,...
View ArticleRediscover: Computer Chess
Since effectively the dawn of narrative cinema, films have been love letters to many subjects to varying degrees of success. Love letters to countries, cinema itself, and, the worst of the bunch, fans....
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