My rule for reviews has typically been not to review anything released less than ten years ago. My reasoning is simple: I believe that...

Nostalgia is complicated. For a long time, I considered it entirely negatively perhaps because of the way it is used to fetishize a...

I am always surprised to discover a book, film, album, painting, or any other piece of art that I have been unaware of and which...

In my entire life I have only gone to the cinema alone on a handful of occasions. This was rarely by choice even though each time was...

In ‘The Sound of Waves’, the sea rages and calms, ebbs and rises again according to its own whims. The laws of nature commanding our...

Grosse Point Blank (1997) feels to me like something of an outlier in 90’s cinema. A brutally black comedy about a hitman returning to...

Lots of us are looking for a little peace from the troubles we carry with us – the traumas, the worries, the sadness and the anger – that...