• Film and TV

    What to Watch

    Zakiya Dalila Harris on Bringing The Other Black Girl to TV

    “This story—and all stories—are pliable.”

     
    By Zakiya Dalila Harris  September 13, 2023
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    30 Years Later, The Age of Innocence Remains Scorsese’s Most Subtle Deconstruction of Misogyny

    By Andrew Quintana  September 8, 2023
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    The Changeling Brings a Genre-Bending Fable of Family to the Screen

    By Rebecca Ackermann  September 7, 2023
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    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in September

    By Emily Temple  September 1, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Never-Ending Transgender Talk Show: A Conversation with Framing Agnes Director Chase Joynt

    By Spencer Williams  September 1, 2023
    Beyond the Page

    Tad Friend and the Art of Long-Form Journalism

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  September 1, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    What to Watch

    Beyond Tortured Genius: Science and Conscience in Two Rediscovered Oppenheimer Films

    By Lauren Carroll Harris  August 31, 2023
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    The Greatest Velmas of History and Fiction

    By Shaenon K. Garrity  August 25, 2023
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    How From Here to Eternity Contradicted Post-War America’s Wholesome Notions

    By M. J. Moore  August 24, 2023
    Jane Austen

    Pride, Prejudice, and The Bachelor

    Chiara Dello Joio on Reality Television's Marriage Plot

    By Chiara Dello Joio  September 8, 2023
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    Greta Gerwig’s Paradise Lost

    By Orlando Reade  August 23, 2023
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    We’re Not Promising Anymore: Lizzy Goodman on the Fleeting Amateur Spirit of Meet Me in the Bathroom

    By Gyasi Hall  August 18, 2023
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    The Library is Open: On Party Girl, Budget Cuts, and the Future of Women’s Work

    By Victoria Wiet  August 17, 2023
    AI

    “I Am the Only One Who Should Recite Them”: When Werner Herzog Narrates Your AI Poetry Collection

    Brent Katz on Directing the Legendary Director

    By Brent Katz  August 16, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a Creative Dracula Adaptation That Bites Off a Bit More Than It Can Chew

    By Olivia Rutigliano  August 11, 2023
    Superman

    On the Men Who Lent Their Bodies (and Voices) to the Earliest Iterations of Superman

    By Paul Morton  August 10, 2023
    The Hub

    Watch the creepy first trailer for The Changeling.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 8, 2023
    Vamps

    How Casting Helen of Troy Becomes an Exercise in Female Power

    “Helen’s spell has always depended, in part, on her own erotic agency, exercised in defiance of male authority.”

    By Ruby Blondell  August 7, 2023
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    Adrian Tomine on the Delight of Collaborating on the Shortcomings Adaptation

    By Adrian Tomine  August 4, 2023
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    The Ineffable Romance of Good Omens… Four Years, One Pandemic, and Two Hollywood Strikes Later

    By Alexis Gunderson  August 4, 2023
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    Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

    By Hannah Bonner  August 3, 2023
    The Hub

    Watch the trailer for the new Joyce Carol Oates documentary.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 28, 2023
    Streaming Guide

    The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in August

    By Emily Temple  July 28, 2023
    Keen On

    How Barbie Captures the Plasticity of Our Surreal Times

    By Keen On  July 28, 2023
    What to Watch

    On the Death of the Comedy Blockbuster

    By Saul Austerlitz  August 23, 2023
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