The Cavalry Is on Its Way, Right? A Primer on Survive-the-Night Movies A group of strangers find themselves besieged […]
For Your Pies Only: A Primer on Feel-Good Spy Movies
For Your Pies Only: A Primer on Feel-Good (or at least Not-Feel-Bad) Spy Movies The spy thriller is a […]
“Nobody’s Perfect”: The Legacy of Some Like It Hot
“Nobody’s Perfect”: The Legacy of Some Like It Hot Some Like It Hot (1959) is a deeply silly […]
Stumpy, I’m Takin a Walk around Town: The Legacy of Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo
Rio Bravo I’d been wanting to write about Rio Bravo (1959) for a long time, but never got around to it. […]
A Man Sits in Silence, Looking Passively at a Crumbling Wall: The Legacy of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï
You know the vibe even if you don’t know the source. Electric streetlights, endless concrete, desperate people living among […]