I am not altogether incurious, but one entity about which I have over the years felt little curiosity is my own body. Until recently, I could not have told you the function of my, or anyone else’s, pancreas, spleen, or gallbladder. I’d just as soon not have known that I have kidneys, and was . . . . Continue Reading »
North by Northwest’s style is so impeccable, its tone so effervescent, that many viewers fail to grasp the film’s seriousness. Ernest Lehman, the screenwriter, did not help when he described the film as an insubstantial caper in the vein of James Bond, “something that has wit, . . . . Continue Reading »
The problem isn’t that most of the Disney-era Star Wars projects fail as films. The problem is that Disney almost certainly knows it and doesn’t care. Continue Reading »
Recommended movies and TV shows from the past year. Continue Reading »
Panique and Richard Jewell share a timeless message: Without due process and the presumption of innocence, people submerged in an environment of hysteria quickly devolve into wolves. Continue Reading »
Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life tells the story of Austrian martyr Franz Jägerstätter and his wife Fani, who suffer as one body even when they are apart. Continue Reading »
Like many other hymns, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “For All the Saints” is an endangered species today. Continue Reading »
As propaganda, The Two Popes is both hugely effective and extremely dangerous. Continue Reading »
The self-driving car is coming. It is not just possible but a virtual—so to speak—certainty, within perhaps a decade. Continue Reading »
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