The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue exists in the cultural imagination as a fixed object: a glossy, sun-drenched monolith of American...

A film's opening moments often function as a declaration of intent. In My Oxford Year, the declaration is a familiar...

The American suburb sleeps, but it does not dream. It festers. Zach Cregger’s Weapons opens on this fundamental truth, transforming...

To look at the night sky is to invite a particular kind of vertigo, a sudden awareness of scale that...

Before the music, there is the image: a plastic, tiered helmet that looks like an art deco ziggurat; a yellow...

A wedding in the English countryside serves as the stage, but the primary guests are ghosts. In My Mother's Wedding,...

An actress, Rose, stands at a precipice. It is a classic setup. A career-defining role hangs in the balance, contingent...

The air in Alice Maio Mackay’s latest film is thick with a particular kind of urban haze, a mixture of...

The film’s architecture is built on a well-trodden foundation, a blueprint whose ghost haunts every frame. We are introduced to...

The moving image has long been fascinated with the spectacle of death as public sport. From gladiatorial epics to dystopian...