What are movies for?
Film
Why do I like Nolan’s Batman movies? Why have I anticipated each one so much, taking part...
Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man has the undeserved misfortune of coming second. Rebooted only 10 years after Sam Raimi...
Sad news. One of my favorite professors from my undergraduate days, Andrew Sarris, has died. I think Pauline...
“They’re a mash-up; they’re insane,” Whedon says. “But the beauty of that is as exciting as the...
In the May 2012 issue of the Atlantic, writer Taylor Clark has an excellent profile of videogame developer Jonathan...
I’m sad to say that I haven’t had a chance to see a majority of the films...
As a brief follow up to my post on upper-middle-class families in modern television and film, I’d...
Even though the Chronicles of Narnia is only three films in, filmmakers have decided to reboot the...
I’m going to write a few posts about Harry Potter in anticipation of seeing the latest, and...
I’m going to write a few posts about Harry Potter in anticipation of seeing the latest, and...
I thought X-Men: First Class was loads of fun, largely because of Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy....
Below, J. L. Wall suggests that Rooster Cogburn’s character arc in True Grit is basically redemptive. I’m...
John Holbo has a veryy good post up trying to classify the various types of science-fiction films...
I just finished the second book of Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy – Catching Fire. Both books...
That’s John Malkovich, trying to explain why he passed on Goodfellas, in a pretty great series of...
The Sand Pebbles and The Great Escape are two of my favorite movies , so I’m not...
Ordinary Gentleman Matthew Schmitz discusses Eric Rohmer and French New Wave Cinema for First Things.
Here at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, we’re doing our part to help kill off serious film...
