You know the first half of Kil Your Darlings (2013) is effective because it made me want to drop out of film school, start a reflexively...

With the American movie-making industry scrambled by the effects of our prolonged pandemic - whether they be the economic slowing or the...

Never was there an invention that was so publicly and paradoxically both loved and reviled as the television set. Especially in the world...

Early Charlie Kaufman was a master. What David Foster Wallace did for postmodernism, Nirvana did for ‘90s indie, what I do for film...

I was always somewhat intrigued by Gus Van Sant’s career - as in, how did the guy ever go from making Drugstore Cowboy (1989) to Good Wil...

I’ll admit it: I’m not well-schooled in the intricacies of the propaganda film (although, if we’re being honest, I’m hardly well-schooled...

There are two types of people in this world: those who are in on the secret that James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) is...

The best part of any Takeshi Kitano movie is Kitano himself. Well, for the ones where he casts himself as the main role, at least. Sure,...

Garishly neon-red jacket, slicked-back hair, trapezoid jawline against all-consuming night sky: this image of James Dean in Rebel Without...

Picture this: you know you need to watch a horror movie from the 1990s for some arbitrary self-imposed reason, but how do you decide...

I recently watched a little relic of the ‘90s called The Living End. It’s one of Araki’s earlier, more amateur features, completed right...