Pop/Culture

Q&A: Journalist-Turned-Screenwriter Michael Bronner Is a Big Fan of the Truth

'The Mauritanian' and 'Rogue Agent' scribe on the differences between journalistic truth and dramatic truth - and the critical role of both in changing…

Nov 12 •

Having It All and Then Some

Guest contributor, 'Call Your Daughter Home' author Deborah Spera, on how her three children prepared her to write her first novel

Nov 2 •

Cinema Isn't Dying (Or: Let's All Go to the Movies!)

It's become a common refrain, to complain about how the moviegoing experience is on life support, but maybe the problem is...you

Oct 26 •

'Armageddon': The Most American Film Ever Made From the Most American Director Ever?

Let's consider what this disaster flick has to say about U.S. culture and the rise of Trump's MAGA movement

Oct 19 •

A Eulogy for Everything We Never Were (and Never Will Be Again)

The story of how writing a screenplay about 'The Diary of Anne Frank' convinced me it was time to leave America for good

Oct 12 •

When the Baseball Film Helped Make America (Kind of) Great

Between 1984 and 1994, the baseball genre became one of the biggest draws at the U.S. box office before suddenly going all but extinct. What happened?

Oct 5 •

When Martin Scorsese Went to War with the NY Times Over Cultural Diversity

The legendary filmmaker's rebuttal of a spectacularly ignorant editorial published by the paper should be memorized by all art lovers

Sep 30 •

On the Virtue of Lying (Or: Go to Hell, Superman)

The truth was something I aspired to in my life and writing…until I discovered it can sometimes cause far more damage than a lie

Aug 17 •

Oh No, the Olympics Threw a Big Queer Dinner Party!

What Madonna can teach us about the Paris opening ceremony, the manufactured controversy around it, and many liberals' silly attempts to pretend it…

Aug 3 •

What if Maverick Is 'Top Gun's' Real Villain?

For all of the film's machismo, director Tony Scott's classic is actually a deconstruction of toxic masculinity

Jul 13 •

We All Want to Be the Christopher Columbus of Cinema

Or: one theory about why American film and the theatrical experience are flailing

Jul 6 •

Q&A: Producer Christine Vachon Doesn't Have Dark Nights of the Soul

The independent cinema titan offers some real talk about nostalgia for '90s indie filmmaking, the theatrical experience today, and why she doesn't…

Jun 25 •

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