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<em>The Changeling</em> Brings a Genre-Bending Fable of Family to the Screen

The Changeling Brings a Genre-Bending Fable of Family to the Screen

Rebecca Ackermann on the New Series Adaptation of Victor LaValle’s Literary Horror Novel

By Rebecca Ackermann | September 7, 2023

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in September

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in September

Some Magic and Mystery for the Early Days of Spooky Season

By Emily Temple | September 1, 2023

The Never-Ending Transgender Talk Show: A Conversation with <em>Framing Agnes</em> Director Chase Joynt

The Never-Ending Transgender Talk Show: A Conversation with Framing Agnes Director Chase Joynt

On Complicating Easy Notions of “Trans Representation”

By Spencer Williams | September 1, 2023

Beyond Tortured Genius: Science and Conscience in Two Rediscovered Oppenheimer Films

Beyond Tortured Genius: Science and Conscience in Two Rediscovered Oppenheimer Films

Lauren Carroll Harris on the Sober Spectacle of The Day After Trinity and The Strangest Dream

By Lauren Carroll Harris | August 31, 2023

The Greatest Velmas of History and Fiction

The Greatest Velmas of History and Fiction

Shaenon K. Garrity Takes Roll Call, from Agatha Christie to Harriet the Spy

By Shaenon K. Garrity | August 25, 2023

How <em>From Here to Eternity</em> Contradicted Post-War America’s Wholesome Notions

How From Here to Eternity Contradicted Post-War America’s Wholesome Notions

M. J. Moore on James Jones’s 1951 Novel and Its Film Adaptation

By M. J. Moore | August 24, 2023

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On the Death of the Comedy Blockbuster

By Saul Austerlitz | August 23, 2023

Greta Gerwig’s Paradise Lost

By Orlando Reade | August 23, 2023

We’re Not Promising Anymore: Lizzy Goodman on the Fleeting Amateur Spirit of Meet Me in the Bathroom

By Gyasi Hall | August 18, 2023

The Library is Open: On <em>Party Girl</em>, Budget Cuts, and the Future of Women’s Work

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Victoria Wiet on the 1995 Cult Classic, a Rallying Cry for Libraries

By Victoria Wiet | August 17, 2023

<em>The Last Voyage of the Demeter</em> is a Creative <em>Dracula</em> Adaptation That Bites Off a Bit More Than It Can Chew

The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a Creative Dracula Adaptation That Bites Off a Bit More Than It Can Chew

Olivia Rutigliano Grades André Øvredal's New Film on a Curve

By Olivia Rutigliano | August 11, 2023

On the Men Who Lent Their Bodies (and Voices) to the Earliest Iterations of Superman

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A Wrestler, a Sunday School Teacher, and a Mystery Man Walk into a Studio

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How Casting Helen of Troy Becomes an Exercise in Female Power

How Casting Helen of Troy Becomes an Exercise in Female Power

“Helen’s spell has always depended, in part, on her own erotic agency, exercised in defiance of male authority.”

By Ruby Blondell | August 7, 2023

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Adrian Tomine on the Delight of Collaborating on the Shortcomings Adaptation

“My wife was actually kind of freaked out by how happy I was during that time.”

By Adrian Tomine | August 4, 2023

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The Ineffable Romance of Good Omens... Four Years, One Pandemic, and Two Hollywood Strikes Later

Alexis Gunderson on the Funny Calm Before a Storm

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Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s <em>Orlando</em>

Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

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By Hannah Bonner | August 3, 2023

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