film
Like most people in the COVID era, I think a lot about space. Not outer space, like the wealthy elites preparing to flee the climate change they've brought on the world, but physical space, the kind we inhabit every day. Perhaps more than any other film genre, it&
biopic
One of the biggest triumphs of The Social Network is that is actually captures the anxiety of social networking. Less a glowing portrait than a grim dissection of the mythology of Mark Zuckerberg, played with vicious solipsism by Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network is that rare biopic that is truly
horror
The traditional disaster movie is deeply personal: individuals struggling against an environment, human-made or otherwise, that turns against them. The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Airplane!, its dying breath Titanic. Then cinema seemed to collectively zoom out: Independence Day, Mars Attacks, Armageddon, Deep Impact. Suddenly what might have once
trans
The most prominent thought I had as I watched Sebastián Lelio’s Oscar-nominated A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantástica, 2017) was how literate the film is in transgender cinema compared to other transgender films I watch. As Marina (Daniela Vega) is thrust through a gauntlet of transphobia following the