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American life is the ultimate epic, and our movies feel like movies within movies, not real and never any good.
Abraham, Lizzie Lloyd, and other Lincolns of New York.
Maria is a flawed movie with a compelling performance by Angelina Jolie.
The ongoing relevance of the late Watergate felon.
A tour through the past and present of the famously hip Los Angeles neighborhood.
Vanity Fair's Cormac McCarthy/Augusta Britt story shows how reductive and reactionary the legacy media remains.
Landing spots for the bedraggled TDS Democratic stenographers.
A chronicle of the second to last week of events in the editing room for Mrs. Monica Quibbits
The ambitious adaptation of the popular Broadway show has set a worrying trend for blockbuster cinema’s future.
Days of Heaven, My Night at Maud’s, and Heretic.
Memories of beasts, Greece, and suede leather jackets.
Four November releases of note.
Neither God nor government deserve your gratitude.
The Incredible Shrinking Man and worrying about nothing.
The writer who was a friend of mankind will be missed.
Blank spots, then intensive care.
He's dead. And there's a contradiction at the heart of his classical liberalism.
Reviewing warnings and predictions about AI.
America’s twisted phase of fear and non-acceptance begins.
How Godzilla became a worldwide phenomenon.
Connections of my youth.
The inevitable backlash to the historical journalism thriller says more about the audience than the film.
A dozen times debate proved futile.
Five things that seemed true at the time.
The Conservative pundit talks immigration, forgiving Trump, and worries about the hard right in this Comedy Cellar podcast.
An extended piece from the stellar but still unheralded Fluorescences EP.
The band plays the Palacio de Los Deportes at the peak of their powers on September 22, 2005.
The actor talks to Joe Rogan about working with the Coen Brothers on their 2007 classic.
The actress talks to Jimmy Fallon about her new film and (successfully) auditioning for Quentin Tarantino in 2018.
The director and cinematographer talks about his new book and his work in Hollywood.
The sexual tension between the filmmaker and the VJ is insane in this rare interview from 1994.
The first ever Club Random guest returns as the show nears its third anniversary.
Kermode reviews Ridley Scott's latest film.
The filmmaker talks about Megalopolis and his needs as an artist on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Stewart goes over the many mistakes of the Democratic Party on The Daily Show.