Ship of Fools (1965)
Ship of Fools is maddeningly difficult to critique. How can a film that beats you over the head with its message also be quiet and…
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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937): Why it’s Forgotten & Why it Matters
Having summoned four of their grown children, Barkley and Lucy Cooper break some difficult news: the elderly couple have been hit hard by the…
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The first time I saw A.I. Artificial Intelligence, I was just a kid. (In fact, I believe I was around the same age as David –…
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Examining ‘Chinatown’
What did you do in Chinatown? As little as possible. Town derived this classic exchange, as well as the title of the film itself,…
The Browning Version (1951)
The Browning Version follows the final days of term for a classics schoolmaster. Due to his ill health, Andrew Crocker-Harris is forced into an…
The Great Gatsby (1974)
What makes Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby a classic novel is its utterly gorgeous prose. It is also this quality which arguably makes Gatsby the epitome of the…