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NEW EPISODE: Nosferatu: Robert Eggers' Dark Dream
NEW WRITING: A CHRISTMAS CAROL—The Good One
NEW EPISODE: Holding Space for GLICKED
NEW WRITING: A Perfect Film: THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...
NEW EPISODE: We're For-a ANORA
NEW WRITING: A Tribute to Ida Lupino
NEW EPISODE: Streaming Melodramas: Love and Deceit
NEW WRITING: In Praise of CORALINE and PARANORMAN
NEW EPISODE: Season of the Witch
NEW EPISODE: JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX—Is That Entertainment?
NEW WRITING: Alcoholism, the Orkney Islands, and THE OUTRUN
NEW EPISODE: BEETLEJUICE RETURNS TO THE LIVING
NEW EPISODE: THE SUBSTANCE Lacks Substance
Nostalgia for BEETLEJUICE
NEW WRITING: Great Obscure Films #3: LILI (1953)
NEW WRITING: The Criterion Channel’s “Columbia Screwball” Series
NEW EPISODE: THE BEAR Season 3: You Good?
NEW WRITING: Summer and Hayley Mills
NEW EPISODE: Who's Watching WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
NEW WRITING: Slapstick Comedy Revival with HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS
NEW EPISODE: Confusion Over CIVIL WAR
NEW WRITING: NORMA RAE and the Easter Miracles
NEW EPISODE: Pumping up LOVE LIES BLEEDING
EPISODE: Oscars 2024: Was It Kenough?
WRITING: THE LIMEY 25 Years Later
EPISODE: DRIVE AWAY DOLLS: An Experiment in Fun
EPISODE: The Book of Barbra: Surveying Streisand
WRITING: HAROLD AND MAUDE and the 1970s Film
EPISODE: Agonizing over Academy Awards Madness
NEW WRITING: The Middle-aged Musical
EPISODE: MAESTRO and the Mess of the Biopic Genre
WRITING: The Vengeful Prole: SALTBURN and KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS
EPISODE: Poor Things: Is it a Great Thing?
WRITING: New Year's Movies
EPISODE: Eileen (No, the Movie)
WRITING: In Praise of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
EPISODE: May December: Todd Haynes' Mature Take
WRITING: Merry Alternative Christmas, Again
EPISODE: Blessings Upon THE CURSE
WRITING: William Wyler's Women
EPISODE: Sophia Coppola Adds Priscilla to Her Gilded Cage
WRITING: The Uninvited as Ghost Film
EPISODE: Contemplating Killers of the Flower Moon
1940s Stars and the Curse of the “Nice Girl”: Gene Tierney, Rita Hayworth, Linda Darnell
An Appreciation of “Noir by Gaslight”
Sondheim Inspired by Hangover Square
Bottoms: New Teen Comedy is Tops
Lanchester and Laughton
Old Broads Hit the Road
NEW WRITING: The Snow White Reboot
NEW EPISODE: Go Bears: Why We're Still Thinking About THE BEAR Seasons 1 & 2
WRITING: Older Women on Film: The Model and the Marriage Broker
EPISODE: Barbie and Oppenheimer: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Doll
WRITING: Lockdown and British Film Noir
EPISODE: Hot Kate Summer
WRITING: RIP Alan Arkin
Episode: Asteroid City: Wes Anderson's Alien Affect
Writing: David Lean's Romantic Dramas
EPISODE: Somebody Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Hangin' in the Heartland
NEW WRITING: Patriotism and American Splendor
EPISODE: The Wonders and the Wondrous Alice Rohrwacher
WRITING: Black Narcissus and “Going Native” Films
EPISODE: The Buzz on Yellowjackets
WRITING: Dog Movies
EPISODE: Retelling the Stars: Little Richard and Brooke Shields
WRITING: Movies About Mental Breakdown: The Haunting
EPISODE: Dead Ringers: DOA or Dead On?
A Great Landscape Film: I Know Where I’m Going!
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and the Reason You Should Get a Dog
Poker Face: No Bullshit, It's Good
Bronte Films
Emily and the Blasphemed Brontes
Women’s Films and Bette Davis
EPISODE: Women Talking About Women Talking
WRITING: Homeowner Terror and Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
EPISODE: Joel Coen in Person: Definitely Meet Your Heroes
WRITING: The Interview
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EPISODE: The Pale Blue Eye: Poe Lingers On
WRITING: Singin’ in the Rain as Everyone's Favorite Old Musical
EPISODE: New Hollywood Shits on Old Hollywood
EPISODE: Holiday Movie Meltdown
EPISODE: White Lotus: Playing in the Shallow End
WRITING: White Christmas as Hollywood Madness
WRITING: Friendship on Film and Anatomy of a Murder
EPISODE: A Big Hand for Banshees of Inisherin
WRITING: A Great Film About Art: The Red Shoes
EPISODE: Stuck in TAR
WRITING: The Extraordinary Vampyr
EPISODE: Tracking the Vampire
WRITING: Great Female Gothic: Rosemary’s Baby
EPISODE: Blonde and Don't Worry Darling: Retro-Feminism and Its Discontents
WRITING: Marilyn Monroe Triumphant
EPISODE: Three Thousand Years of Longing for This Film to End
EPISODE: It's a Bear: TV's Lauded Drama of Working-class Ambition
WRITING: Food Movies and Contraband
EPISODE: Blah Blah Blah and Bodies Bodies Bodies
WRITING: Murderous Satire: And Then There Were None
EPISODE: Bullet Trainwreck
SPECIAL EPISODE: 2 Yeps for Nope
EPISODE: Binging and Purging Stranger Things
ESSAY: Millie Bobby Brown in Enola Holmes
EPISODE: Elvis and the Hysteria of Baz Luhrmann
ESSAY: Elvis Movies
NEW EPISODE: Cronenberg's Film Crimes
ESSAY: Jurassic Worlds Without End
EPISODE: Proud of Hacks
ESSAY: Happy Birthday, Judy Garland
EPISODE: Alex Garland's Men
ESSAY: Alex Garland Beautifying the Apocalypse
EPISODE: The Northman and the Strange Career of Robert Eggers
ESSAY: In Praise of The Vikings
EPISODE: Everything Everywhere and Us
ESSAY: Ambiguous Monsters: You Won’t Be Alone and Isle of the Dead
EPISODE: Witchfest! A Discussion of Recent Witch Movies
ESSAY: All Them Witches
EPISODE: Awards Season Wrap-up
ESSAY: Belated Tribute to Shang-chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
EPISODE: Parallel Mothers and Almodóvar's New Groove
ESSAY: Scene Study: Cigarettes Through the Moonroof in Drive My Car
EPISODE: You Can Drive My Car as Long as You Want
ESSAY: Housing Horrors Explored in The House
EPISODE: Cringing Over Belfast
NEW ESSAY Oscar Nominee: CODA
Essay: Throne of Blood: Great Macbeth or the Greatest Macbeth?
Episode: Strange Attractions: Unlikely Actors We Love in Unseemly Ways
Essay: Lee Marvin Tribute: The Professionals
Episode: Nightmare Alleys
Essay: Hitchcock and Film Noir: Shadow of a Doubt
Merry Alternative Christmas
West Side Stories and the Musical
Spencer and the Melodrama
Vincente Minnelli's Male Melodramas
Todd Haynes: Avant-garde with Heart
CURRENT EPISODE: Liza Minnelli: Pizzazz with 4 Zs
Liza Minnelli sings and dances with the New York Yankees
Elizabeth Taylor Part 2: The Last Star
New Essay! Before Liz: The The Childhood Performances of Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor Part 1: The Last Star