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A RECENT COVER STORY IN HARPER'S asked the question 'What Happened to Gen X?' Written by the Canadian-American philosophy professor Justin E. H. Smith, the piece opens with memories of [...]

OF THE GROUP OF AMERICAN FILMMAKERS known as the 'Film School Generation' (Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, etc.), Paul Schrader is perhaps the hardest to get a [...]

UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS Murders in blackout London AMY HELEN BELL 272pp. Yale University Press. 22 [pounds sterling] (US $30). On the morning of February 9, 1942, the body of [...]

NETHER WORLD Crime and the police courts in Victorian London DREW D. GRAY 352pp. Reaktion. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. Great Windmill Street is a narrow turning off Shaftesbury Avenue, just north [...]

THE HOOPLA SURROUNDING TOP GUN: MAVERICK (2022) is much like the hoopla that surrounded the remake of Ghostbusters (2016), which was the subject of my chronicle in the summer 2016 [...]

AS 2022 BEGINS, it seems that travel has returned, and so perhaps has cinema. For me, these two have always been intertwined. From my teenage days in the 1980s, when [...]

The article explores the history of film criticism. It compares literary criticism and film criticism. It describes the work of Leavisite film critic Robin Wood during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as his contributions to the bimonthly magazine "Film Comment." It discusses the decline of magazines of film criticism and the shift of some to online publication.

Kevin Nikkel, Establishing Shots: An Oral History of the Winnipeg Film Group, University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg, 2023, 444 pages. ISBN: 978-1-77284-103-1, $34.95 (paper) There was a time, and it [...]

STEVE MCQUEEN'S SMALL AXE (2020) is commonly described as an 'anthology,' as it is a collection of five films that are all directed and cowritten by McQueen, that are all [...]

The article focuses on Gen-X filmmakers and stars, including reflections on middle age and handling aging. Topics include Nicole Holofcener's portrayal of upper-middle-class anomie in her latest film, "You Hurt My Feelings," the evolution of film and television in the digital age, and Arnold Schwarzenegger's podcast and recent public statements.

ABOUT 70 MINUTES INTO DAVID BYRNE'S NEW CONCERT FILM, American Utopia (2020), he explains the minimalist layout of his show by speculating about absence: 'What if we could eliminate everything [...]

WESTERN EUROPE IS LIVING THROUGH SOMETHING of a Simone Weil moment just now. All over the continent, and certainly in Weil's native France, there is a sense that people are [...]

MY NEW HOME OF SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN has one seven-day-a-week arthouse cinema, which is one more than my previous home of Halifax, Nova Scotia. That cinema, the Roxy, is about to [...]

FOR REASONS KNOWN ONLY TO GOD, and now presumably to Stan Lee as well, 12 AMC theatres (including one in Canada) took two days in April to stage a marathon [...]

WHEN FILM DIED, IT DIED FAST. That's what I tell my students as spring comes and we near the end of the second half of my film history course. Within [...]