Lou Aguilar

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage…

When I wrote my recent essay for this magazine about the death of beauty in cinema, I didn’t mean the…

I intended to write only one movie-themed Valentine’s Day piece this week — on how the death of the heteronormative…

“When you’re taking flak, you’re right over the target.” Never has the World War II expression been truer than regarding…

There has been much appropriate scorn on the abominable statue recently erected atop a New York City state courthouse. Literally…

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree. Where Alph, the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to…

Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart… — Jeremiah…

As someone who has written movies and about the movies for some time, the current state of cinema makes me…

This is my first annual top five list of the past year’s heroes — people who made our country, if…

In the spring of 1979, the legendary John Wayne lay dying of lung cancer at UCLA Medical Center. He had…