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 Alexander Stone There is a specific, grainy quality to the memory of the year 1999. It is the memory of late-night music television, of…
By Sara Bright There are moments in culture that feel like a kind of spontaneous combustion, and the supermodel phenomenon of the early 1990s was…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic To read John Irving is to enter a world that is at once utterly familiar and profoundly strange.…
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…