Peter Blake's Sgt. Pepper's cover defined British pop art. Its triumph also created a perfect prison - a shadow the movement couldn't escape.
By Tessa Nolan Hollywood loves a wunderkind, and after the sleeper success of 2022’s Barbarian, Zach Cregger was anointed. That film, a masterclass in narrative misdirection…
The first problem a filmmaker faces when attempting to capture Vladimir Putin on screen is that the Russian president is already a heavily mediated fiction.…
By Sara Bright What if you could not only hear a song, but see and touch it? For artist and composer Jura Skye, that’s not…
The most defining moment of Gwyneth Paltrow’s twenty-first-century public life did not take place on a Hollywood red carpet, nor did it occur during a…
The physical location of a runway often communicates as much as the garments traversing it. To witness models striding out onto the cantilevered “Floating Bridge”…
By Tessa Nolan “DC, Fairfax, wherever the f**k we are,” snarled Liam Gallagher, frontman of the British music group Oasis, as the final, swirling chords…
By Sara Bright Cinema is not always meant to be a comfortable space. But in the spring of 2000, on the pristine, sun-drenched shores of…
By Sara Bright First comes the dust. It is not like sand. It is a fine, alkaline powder, the consistency of flour, the ghost of…
When Christopher Nolan announced that his follow-up to the cultural monolith of Oppenheimer would be an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, the cinematic establishment experienced…