& 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.
E Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies November 8, 2019 Every Sperm Is Sacred: The Meaning of “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” We look back on the anarchic joys of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, and how it shaped the comic sensibilities of a generation.
N Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month November 7, 2019 November’s Filmmaker of the Month: Movies We’re Thankful For This month, we go off the beaten path and ask contributors to write about films they're thankful they got to experience for one reason or another.