By Sara Bright When Taylor Swift announced her next album would be released on cassette, the collective cultural response was a bemused shrug. In an…
By Alexander Stone Crime, at its most ambitious, has always been a form of theatre. It requires a script, a cast, elaborate sets, and a…
By Sara Bright August is a strange month for cinema. It arrives at the tail end of summer, when the blockbuster fatigue has set in…
By Tessa Nolan If you listen closely to the stories cinema is telling us this year, you can hear a distinct and welcome sound: the…
By Sara Bright It arrived with the quiet confidence of a project that knew it was destined to conquer. In a streaming landscape littered with…
By Sara Bright An Inventory of Hope. The proposition is almost insultingly simple. A boy’s mother is in hospital, having done “something stupid.” He decides…
By Maria Bregman The word “inspiration” is in trouble. It has been hollowed out, flattened by a culture that prefers its heroes simple and its…
By Sara Bright There are certain partnerships in the cultural sphere that feel less like a collaboration and more like a convergence, an inevitable meeting…
By Maria Bregman, writer and music critic To understand the year 2000, you have to understand Fred Durst. To see him then, at the absolute…
By Sara Bright A castle is a statement. It is a declaration of power, a symbol of dominance etched into the landscape. For nine centuries,…