& Categories Filmmaker of the Month November 29, 2019 “Die Hard With a Vengeance” Gave Me My Best Friend One writer's childhood bond with his best friend was sealed by a fateful late-night screening of Die Hard with a Vengeance.
Q Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies November 28, 2019 Queerness and the Small Subversions of “Big Business” The Bette Midler/Lily Tomlin mistaken-identity comedy played a curiously strong role in one writer's journey to queerness and leftism.
D Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies November 27, 2019 Desire, Use, Repeat: Patterns of Grace in “Her Smell” Alex Ross Perry's punk-rock elegy isn't just a bittersweet portrait of rock stardom, it's a beautiful model of the long, hard road to sobriety.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies November 26, 2019 “You’ve Got Mail” and the Fight for a Vulnerable Life Nora Ephron's charming Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan comedy also makes the case for letting yourself be vulnerable and brave.