A Useful Ghost is almost certainly the best movie ever made about a possessed vacuum cleaner.
What makes a Gus Van Sant movie a Gus Van Sant movie?
Bears do sometimes wander onto the streets of Winnipeg, though it isn’t especially common.
A master among masters, Park Chan-wook is the rare filmmaker whose every movie feels like an event unto itself.
Professionals can hit a ping pong ball 70 miles per hour, which is roughly the speed at which Josh Safdie directs a movie.
Has 2025 secretly been the year of Lucy Liu all along?
The spiritual and the sexual are inextricably linked from the first scene of Little Trouble Girls.
It’s been more than 20 years since Shih-Ching Tsou directed a movie, not that she hasn’t been busy.
In Islamic eschatology, the bridge to paradise is “narrower than a strand of hair and sharper than a sword.”
A powerful reminder of what movies — and only movies — can do, Sound of Falling is, quite simply, the best film of the year.
Would a house rather be empty or full?
One of the scariest books I’ve ever read is Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, which presents a terrifyingly plausible account of how an actual nuclear conflict might unfold.
