Davies: A Quiet Passion (2016)
With A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies has possibly made the perfect film about Emily Dickinson – a film that doesn’t claim to be a total adaptation of her life and work, [...]
Killing Eve (BBC America) (2018)
Based on Luke Jennings’ Codename Villanelle series, and adapted for the screen by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Killing Eve plays as a comic and irreverent riposte to the way in [...]
Corporate (Comedy Central) (2018)
While workplace comedies abound in American film and television, comedies about corporate life, or about the daily workings of a corporation, are less common. No doubt, the [...]
American Vandal: Season 2 (Netflix) (2018)
The second season of American Vandal is even more complex and sophisticated than the first. It also sits even more precipitously on the nexus between true crime parody and [...]
American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace (FX) (2018)
In some ways, the second season of American Crime Story is even more ambitious than the first, drawing upon Maureen Orth’s book Vulgar Favors to detail the life and crimes [...]
Divorce (HBO) (2016-2018)
Over the last ten years, the waning of whiteness and the waning of the romantic comedy have tended to go hand in hand in Hollywood cinema – or, rather, the romantic comedy [...]
Guadagnino: Suspiria (2018)
Dario Argento’s Suspiria exudes such an intense and inimitable aesthetic that it’s not really possible to remake it, just as no subsequent viewing can rival the shock of [...]
Welles: The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
Like Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’ final film – started in the early 1970s but only “completed” and released on Netflix this year – is a study of a larger-than-life [...]
Greengrass: 22 July (2018)
Over the last couple of years, there has been a new openness to depicting acts of white terrorism in film and television, as well as contemplating how certain kinds of white [...]
Green: Halloween (2018)
Directed by David Gordon Green, and written by Green and Danny McBride, the latest addition to the Halloween franchise has managed to achieve what Friday the 13th, A [...]
