By Alexander Stone A great on-screen kiss is a piece of storytelling. It can be a goodbye, a beginning, or the moment an entire story…
By Alexander Stone With a face that can look like a saint or a gargoyle, Willem Dafoe has built a career on playing characters no…
By Tessa Nolan There is a peculiar, almost Beckettian poetry to the statement issued by the Adams County Coroner’s Office. A man is dead, found…
When Netflix announced that Lena Dunham was creating a new romantic comedy series set in London, the cultural press braced itself for a seismic transatlantic…
By Maria Bregman, Writer and Film critic There are faces made for posters, for the reassuring geometry of heroism. Square jaws, noble brows, eyes that…
By Sara Bright We didn’t just lose an actor. We lost a spectre, a magnificent, terrifying ghost of cinematic cool that has haunted pop culture…
By Maria Bregman, writer and film critic The cinematic biopic is a treacherous art form. It carries the immense burden of wrestling a complex, often…
By Sara Bright The act of adapting a beloved story is a perilous art, a tightrope walk between fidelity and invention. When the source material…
There is a profound and unshakeable alchemy to the broadcast television procedural. For more than half a century, it has served as the foundational bedrock…
By Sara Bright There exists in our cultural consciousness a rare and potent alchemy where an actor and a character become so profoundly fused as…