Film

“Grace” in Ebbing, Missouri

Writer and director Martin McDonagh has put us in a Flannery O’Connor world. Continue Reading »

15 Jun 2018

When the Sight & Sound poll—the oldest and most prestigious film ranking—declared in 2012 that Vertigo was the greatest film ever made, Armond White denounced the film’s admirers for their “obsessive interest in pathology and soullessness.” James Wolcott dismissed the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018

Superheroes Saving Us From Ourselves

by Christopher R. Altieri

The moral of Avengers: Infinity War is that life is good—indeed, that life is a good, one the good guys seek to preserve, and bad guys seek to destroy. Continue Reading »

15 May 2018

The Weak Lead Us to Reality

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

Summer in the Forest, a documentary on Jean Vanier's L’Arche communities for the disabled, reminds us that we are all fragile, and that we must love one another. Continue Reading »

3 Apr 2018

Witch Camp

by Eve Tushnet

In the film I Am Not a Witch we see how every human society interprets its own beliefs as damage, and routes around them. Continue Reading »

21 Mar 2018

Decline is a Choice (Partly)

by Pete Spiliakos

Hollywood, like so many of our elites, has chosen short-term advantage over the health of shared institutions. Continue Reading »

15 Mar 2018

Blacklisted

by Ron Austin

I am the last living blacklisted Hollywood writer. I can’t prove this any more than I could legally prove my blacklisting at the time. (The blacklist, after all, was an illegal conspiracy subject to lawsuits.) I am reasonably certain about this claim because I knew the Hollywood writers in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2018