The prevalence of disaster movies in the 1970s, Irwin Allen and John Guillermin’s collaboration, and orange/brown colour palette. Episode 358 – »
The good and bad of David Fincher’s meticulousness, stunt casting, authorship, gestures, Citizen Kane, and Charles Dance. Episode 357 – Mank »
The hits and misses contained within Christopher Nolan’s latest, including casting, the conflicting thematic and stylistic ideas running through the film, »
How Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece communicates and comments on the act of looking, ensemble staging and the reasoning behind it, the »
Jordan Peele’s unpredictable career arc, the unexpected twist behind Lupita Nyong’o’s performance, the family dynamic, and the film’s presentation of »
Charlie Kaufman’s… whatever this is? Episode 353: I’m Thinking of Ending Things »
Hereditary’s treatment of the family drama, miniatures, building tension with not-so-showy long takes, and Toni Collette. Midsommar’s treatment of college friendships »
Spike Lee’s adventurous and inspiring style, Delroy Lindo’s immaculate performance, the film as cultural and historical criticism, and a whole bunch »
Alex writes about Wendy, Benh Zeitlin, and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Let’s go back to early 2012. A director »
Charlie Chaplin’s last film as the Little Tramp, Chaplin’s unique sort of worldwide fame, Paulette Goddard’s performance, the film as »
