By Sara Bright Every great empire has a story of a near-fatal misstep, a moment of hubris or miscalculation so profound that it threatens the…
By Sara Bright There is a face that is hardwired into the consciousness of an entire generation. It is the face of a boy, eight…
By Sara Bright There is a specific kind of grief reserved for the return of something you once loved, only to find it hollowed out,…
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 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 film critic To adapt a national epic is to walk a tightrope. On one side lies the abyss of slavish…
By Sara Bright There is a moment, somewhere around the eighth week of summer, when a collective cultural fever breaks. It is a fever contracted…
When Steve Martin stood before stadium crowds in the late 1970s, wearing an immaculate white suit, a novelty arrow through his head, and declaring himself…