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The Talkies
by | Apr 12, 2023

Think The Silence of the Lambs mixed with The Exorcist and Primal Fear. Blend and stir in some The Screwtape Letters with modern disbelief. The…

by | Apr 7, 2023

On March 5, in a piece about the Screen Actors Guild Awards, I offered, en passant, an exquisitely nuanced critical…

by | Mar 26, 2023

The blessing and curse of being a combination film devotee and writer is that movie memories blend with real life…

by | Mar 18, 2023

On Thursday, February 23, the two-week-long, nonstop religious revival at tiny Asbury University in rural Wilmore, Kentucky saw its official…

by | Mar 11, 2023

For Americans of a certain age — that is to say, Americans who were born and grew up during what…

by | Mar 5, 2023

If you’re like me, you’ve always been somewhat dissatisfied with the annual Academy Awards telecast — and, for that matter,…

by | Mar 3, 2023

I first discovered HBO’s hit series The White Lotus through the hosts of the controversial Red Scare podcast, upon whom…

by | Feb 19, 2023

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

by | Feb 12, 2023

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

by | Feb 3, 2023

The franchise of Bond, James Bond has suffered the same fate as some other companies in corporate America: it has…

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