American Suburbia and All That Heaven Allows
Douglas Sirk‘s 1955 romantic melodrama All That Heaven Allows opens on the fictional New England hamlet of Stoningham. As theContinue Reading
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Neo Noirvember
It’s November 2019, and Blade Runner is now set in the present. What better reason is there than that to commemorateContinue Reading
The Reckless Moment (Blu-ray review) ★★★½
Lucia Harper (Joan Bennett) seems to have it all. She is happily married with two kids and a nice house.Continue Reading
Love and Class in All that Heaven Allows
Scandal has arrived in the small town of Stoningham, a quintessential New England locale lined with homes filled with housewives,Continue Reading
Blu-ray Favorites From 2018
We look back at a number of our favorite Blu-ray releases from 2018. This is by no means a ‘bestContinue Reading
A Simple Favor ★★★
Even before the source novel was released, A Simple Favor had been pitched as a mix of Gone Girl andContinue Reading
Kevin Jones’s Top 10 Criterion Films
This month, a number of our critics share their 10 favorite titles from the Criterion Collection in celebration of theContinue Reading
Samuel Fuller Shocks the System
“For Sam Fuller, the world condensed into stories. That’s what he saw wherever he looked. Whatever reality, incident, fact orContinue Reading
The Role of Nostalgia in the Films of Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes is a director who wears his cinematic influences on his sleeves. From his very first full-length film, Poison (1991),Continue Reading
Wonderstruck ★★★★
Hurtling aimlessly through space, a meteorite has no idea where it will land. On the journey to its unknown destination,Continue Reading
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