Film Review Feast

What follows is a transcript of a talk I gave in March 2010. In it, I argue that Christopher Nolan's 2008 blockbuster The Dark Knight  i...

I saw Marvel's Doctor Strange last weekend. With its focus on magic, astral projection, and alternate dimensions, I figured it would ...

Eighty-eight is my very favorite number. I love the number eight to begin with, then eighty-eight doubles down on the lovely symmetry and ...

As the sense of scale here should make clear, Guillermo del Toro's  superb blockbuster  Pacific Rim is a film you should see in t...

Welles as depicted on the cover of Simon Callow's superb biography,  Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu * I am still in the process...