• Film and TV

    What to Watch

    Why Maurice is Still a Resonant Text for the Queer Audience

    David Greven Defends a Merchant Ivory Adaptation

     
    By David Greven  November 15, 2023
    What to Watch

    Sweet Nothings: On the Emptiness of Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla

    By Hannah Bonner  November 10, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Most Unlikable Woman: On Sofia Coppola’s Stymied Quest to Bring Undine Spragg to Screen

    By Emily J. Orlando  November 8, 2023
    Antifascism

    Laughing At Evil: When Charlie Chaplin Brought Hitler to the Big Screen

    By Scott Eyman  November 3, 2023
    Hollywood

    How 1950s Hollywood Tried (and Failed) to Make Literary Adaptations Big

    By Foster Hirsch  November 3, 2023
    What to Watch

    We Almost Got a Superhero Movie from The Exorcist Director William Friedkin

    By Paul Morton  November 3, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Love and Romance

    Love and Looking: On What We (Don’t) See Together

    By Devorah Baum  November 2, 2023
    What to Watch

    Kristen Roupenian and Susanna Fogel on Adapting “Cat Person” for Film

    By Literary Hub  November 2, 2023
    What to Watch

    What to Read Before and After Seeing Orlando, My Political Biography

    By Literary Hub  November 1, 2023
    News and Culture

    Dream Scenario is a Worthwhile Head Trip

    The new film starring Nicolas Cage is a thoughtful and engaging, if slightly overambitious, meditation on fame, attention, and parasocial connection.

    By Olivia Rutigliano  November 10, 2023
    Horror

    Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2023
    Horror

    “Leisure, Labor, Reticence, Violence”: What Horror Films Can Teach Us About Poetry

    By Justin Phillip Reed  October 31, 2023
    Film and TV

    The Holdovers is a Revelation

    By Olivia Rutigliano  October 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    50 Years Later, Terrence Malick’s Badlands Remains a Pure Encapsulation of American Violence

    Gus Mitchell on the Singular Director’s Debut Film

    By Gus Mitchell  October 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    Evan Hughes on Writing the Book Behind Pain Hustlers

    By Evan Hughes  October 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    Goosebumps Remixes Its Source Material to Satisfying Results

    By Michael Kraus  October 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in November

    By Emily Temple  October 27, 2023
    Representation

    Romance and Representation: On the Rise of the Asian American Romantic Comedy

    Jeff Yang in Conversation With Actor Simu Liu and Filmmaker Alice Wu

    By Jeff Yang  October 26, 2023
    What to Watch

    Holly Ringland on the Life-Affirming Experience of Seeing Her Novel Adapted for TV

    By Holly Ringland  October 26, 2023
    What to Watch

    On Lessons in Chemistry and the Reign of Extraordinary Women

    By Rosalynn Tyo  October 23, 2023
    What to Watch

    Despite Some Pitfalls, Killers of the Flower Moon Swells with Humanity and Heart

    By Olivia Rutigliano  October 20, 2023
    The Hub

    Marty and Leo are bringing another David Grann book to the big screen.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 19, 2023
    What to Watch

    Highs and Lows from the New York Film Festival’s Literary Fare

    By Elissa Suh  October 19, 2023
    The Hub

    Watch the sinister trailer for the adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen.

    By Emily Temple  October 18, 2023
    Dracula

    Silvia Garcia-Moreno on Dracula’s Depictions and Descendants

    By Silvia Moreno-Garcia  October 31, 2023
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