In: Film & TV Criticism

Enlightenment 2.0: “Her” and technologically assisted transcendence

We are living in exciting times. Few of us can remember an epoch when we weren’t all so goddamned self-reflexive. Everyday...

Gravity: on letting go in order to live.

Gravity is a visually stunning masterpiece of a film. From the trailers one is led to believe that we are in...

The Xanax Doesn’t Work: Blue Jasmine and the psychology of relating

“Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own.” These are...

Why Richard (meaning anyone under 30) should watch The Godfather: the value of investing in an epic film without interruption.

I always experience a kind of wonder and excitement when I meet people who haven’t yet seen The Godfather; invariably I...

The Master: a perversion of psychoanalysis incited by the compulsion to repeat

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is a psychological film, while at the same time it’s a film about psychology. No, not...

In Skyfall, M stands for Mother

Fifty years ago Bond broke his way onto our screens with Dr. No. I’ll do the maths for you: it was...