Skip to content
Lessons from Olivia Wilde’s meticulously crafted screwball comedy about inviting the neighbours over for dinner… and maybe more?
There’s old-fashioned, and then there’s out of touch – and even Steven Spielberg, cinematic maestro (not least of first-contact alien movies), can miss the mark.
Lessons from the director and his influential masterpiece.
Lessons from the directing, design, and discourse of Emerald Fennell’s interpretation of Emily Brontë’s gothic novel.
The more emotional, and beautifully messy, instalment in the Knives Out series.
Men’s mental health in the time of four-track recording.
Lessons from the production and portrayals of race, gender, and politics in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film about revolutionaries and supremacists, parents and children.
Floored by understatement.
Not the romcom it’s perhaps made out to be?
Sweet, but needs practice.
Too meaningless to even be pretentious: a detailed autopsy of the two-part finale to the Mission Impossible series.
Maybe the best-looking Marvel movie since Iron Man (2010)?
Storytelling lessons from a political drama for our moment.
The best Star War since Empire – and far, far better than we had any right or hope to expect.
Lessons in video game adaptation. Contains spoilers.
The inspirations and approach powering the show’s look and feel.
The craft and impact of the four single-take episodes.
First-draft soap opera cosplaying as political commentary, with neither zeit nor geist.
This time, going electric doesn’t change the world, but it’s stylish.
Bring on this anthology series.
Charming leads, missed opportunities.
Coming-of-age adaptation with no style, perspective, or palpable personality.
Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos: creating unique perspective.
An alternately cutting and tender satire, which chooses not to land.
Wim Wenders gifts us a gentle, contemplative piece which is rich, lovely, and worth your time.
Creating tension with an elusive subject – and an out-of-this-world lead performance.
Lessons from Scorsese’s thesis statement.
More innovative as a technical milestone, and as a model for independent film-makers, than as a science-fiction story.
Version 1.0 of what could be a better family drama.
How to convey unspeakable horror with sound and a mirror.