Retrospective

‘A League of Their Own’ at 30: Penny Marshall’s baseball classic remains an empowering and enduring example of sisterhood [Retrospective]

Growing up in Poland, I was curious about one particular American sport: baseball. After seeing Mary-Kate swinging a bat and… Read More

June 28, 2022

‘Beware! The Blob’ at 50: The genre osmosis of the first and last film directed by Larry Hagman [Retrospective]

Fans of classic television will most likely remember Larry Hagman as the menacing J.R. Ewing on CBS’s Dallas, or in… Read More

June 16, 2022

From ‘The Birdcage’ to ‘Happy Together’ to ‘Tangerine,’ 10 LGBTQ+ stories that go beyond the coming out narrative

Historically, there has been one particular storyline prevalent in queer cinema: The coming-out narrative. Stories revolving around a queer protagonist’s… Read More

June 15, 2022

‘Withnail & I’ retrospective: The queer cult classic that launched Richard E. Grant’s career turns 35

Withnail & I is a throbbing hangover, the dirty, disgusting apartment you wake up to on a Sunday morning in… Read More

June 15, 2022

‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ retrospective: The rom-com that flipped the genre on its head and cemented Julia Roberts’ status as a full-fledged star

The 1997 romantic comedy My Best Friend’s Wedding is unhinged in many ways. For starters, it begins with an opening… Read More

June 14, 2022

‘Grease 2’ retrospective: How the horny, audacious, gender-swapped sequel became a bigger (better?) cult hit than its predecessor

Let’s get this out of the way - I’m one of those freaks who saw Grease 2 first. I thought… Read More

June 9, 2022

One year later, ‘Bo Burnham: Inside’ remains a perfect pandemic time capsule [Retrospective]

Bo Burnham: Inside is premised upon both a literal and artistic isolation; a one-man special created in a backyard shed,… Read More

May 26, 2022

‘My Cousin Vinny’ retrospective: ‘Yutes,’ grits and how Marisa Tomei’s Oscar win is still ticking after 30 years

Tick-tock, tick-tock. Yes, that is the sound of your biological clock ticking…like…this because 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the… Read More

March 13, 2022

Robert Altman’s melancholic murder mystery ‘Gosford Park’ turns 20 and it’s as rich as it’s ever been [Retrospective]

I remember, sitting in the theater, the distinctive feeling of immediate intimacy while watching Kelly MacDonald in a cramped front… Read More

December 24, 2021

The sneaky universality of ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ [Retrospective]

There’s a famous Tolstoy quote that says, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own… Read More

December 14, 2021

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