By Sara Bright There’s a chaotic energy thrumming through Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, a relentless, almost gleeful, unspooling of American anxieties. It is…
An awards show red carpet is rarely about the clothes alone. It is a text, written in silk and satin, jewels and jawlines. It is…
When Bram Stoker first unleashed Count Dracula upon the world in 1897, his epistolary novel was designed to terrify Victorian readers with its undercurrents of…
There are two distinct entities that share the name Hugh Grant. The first is a meticulously crafted, somewhat accidental invention of the mid-1990s: a cultural…
The damp, salt-laced air of the Lido always seems to carry a distinct sense of finality on closing night. As the 82nd Venice International Film…
By Tessa Nolan There is a prison built of gold, and Sean Connery lived in it for most of his adult life. The prison was…
A film’s soul is frequently dictated by its geography. For a narrative that concerns itself with unearthing ancient, entombed horrors, the choice of where to…
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 Cinema is not always meant to be a comfortable space. But in the spring of 2000, on the pristine, sun-drenched shores of…