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Columns

Deep Focus: Ready or Not

By Michael Sragow
August 23, 2019
Bored games: the clumsy horror comedy pitches its blood-and-guts flakiness too absurdly high

Present Tense: Female Comedians

By Sheila O'Malley
August 23, 2019
Yes, and: why comedy and improv often produce some of the greatest actors

Queer & Now & Then: 1951

By Michael Koresky
August 14, 2019
School days: Jacqueline Audry’s melodrama Olivia all but luxuriates in an always imminent queer lust

Feeling Seen: A Day of Us

By Jaime Grijalba
August 8, 2019
Animal magnetism: a Korean animated web-series touches upon the small truths of living with a partner

Present Tense: Out of the Blue

By Sheila O'Malley
August 8, 2019
Into the black: Dennis Hopper's doom-ridden, death-stalked film takes punk rock at its word

Higher Learning: Chromatic Modernity

By Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe
August 2, 2019
Technicolor dreams: our modern sense of color as a standardized commodity is intertwined with the history of cinema

Classified: Eco-Horror

By April Wolfe
July 29, 2019
Natural reactions: cinema’s history of depicting nature as brute force equalizer and death dealer

Present Tense: Back-ting

By Sheila O'Malley
July 25, 2019
Can’t look away: the nearly lost art of acting with back to the camera

Present Tense: What Happened Was…

By Sheila O'Malley
July 11, 2019
Alone together: Tom Noonan’s two-hander is an unblinking look at the havoc loneliness can wreak on humans

Feeling Seen: Whose Apocalypse Now?

By Phuong Le
July 9, 2019
Adrift in history: much of Apocalypse Now portrays Vietnam as a spectacular but soulless backdrop for moral ruminations