Category: Features

We are incredibly proud to present an excerpt from the excellent Gandolfini: Jim, Tony & the Life of a Legend…

The following is a conversation between Robert Daniels and Odie Henderson conducted over email about Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” a Southern…

“A Minecraft Movie” is a perfectly calibrated light entertainment. At certain points, it reminded me of that mid’-80s run of…

Presenting interdisciplinary research and sharing concerns about their discipline, members of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies met in…

In Stephen Cognetti’s “Hell House” films, a character carrying the camera, and us within it, walks for what feels like…

The untempered version of world events right now: Things are not getting better. There’s no opposition coming, there’s no reckoning on…

Rarely does it matter that Ken Burns’ “Baseball,” an immersive ten-part docuseries about the history of America’s pastime, is built…

It’s so easy to get cynical about the vaunted “oner.” A staple of 21st-century film and television these days, the…

Last month, I released my third book, “The Black Book: An Anthony Mann Reader.” (You can order your copy here.)…

Everyone loves a hero. We’re awash with heroic stories in film and TV, decades into the comic-book-turned-movie blockbuster. In fact,…