In October and November, I embarked on a journey through every film in the Halloween series. Although initiated just for fun, this fruits o...

For the last entry in my my Sight & Sound podcast miniseries , chance - and the directors who placed this film much higher than the c...

Following my coverage of Jeanne Dielman , Beau Travail , and Close-Up , Sunrise is the first film in my Sight & Sound podcast minise...

For the third week in a row (and the last time, although two more entries remain) I'm covering a film I'd never seen before as par...

A week after this Sight & Sound podcast miniseries covered the #1 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles with gue...

My Sight & Sound podcast miniseries, covering the top five films I'd never covered before from the 2022 critics' and director...

Late last year, Sight & Sound Magazine released the results of its eighth decennial critics' and directors' poll to determine...

For the finale of the Lost in the Movies podcast (at least for now, I don't plan to return from the scheduled summer/fall hiatus), I...

An unnamed woman (Scarlett Johansson) scopes her terrain and stalks her prey in nocturnal Glasgow, driving a van around mostly empty stre...

Both highly relevant and very much a time capsule, Adam Curtis' The Power of Nightmares depicts the War on Terror as a clash between ...

When David Lynch descended on a midsize North Carolina city to shoot his distinctive, out-of-time tribute to - and/or subversion of - smal...

An experimental documentary as much imaginative memoir and meditation as study of certain times and places (including New York in the wake...

With 2023 we begin a new season of my main public podcast, one that returns to the random assemblies of episodes throughout 2021 as oppose...

The 1938 Marie Antoinette is a fascinating portrait of its time and sensibility: a Golden Age Hollywood production that luxuriates in the...

For the second time in this "Hollywood Classic"-themed season, I'm rounding up several films in a single podcast (in the fi...

In an interlude between two omnibus film capsule episodes, I'm focusing on a single film for my October podcast: Josef von Sternberg...

This podcast season of "Hollywood Classics" reaches a crescendo as I pack over a dozen "capsules" from my Patreon in...

My fifth season focus on "Hollywood Classics" continues after last month's Swing Time with another, quite different Ginger Ro...

The fifth season of my main public podcast kicks off with a new theme: "Hollywood Classics". Some of these episodes will bundle se...

In the heart of the 2014 "McConnaissance" - following the intense critical buzz of the iconic True Detective , the Oscar-winning p...