Drowning in the neon swamp of Tron: Ares
Your eyes and your brain cells will hate you for watching this
Peter Tonguette
Peter Tonguette is the author of Orson Welles Remembered and The Films of James Bridges.
Wednesday
Tuesday
Spinal Tap II is an amusing, honorable successor to the original film
Above all, Reiner proves his vim and vigor by the very quality of the film
Wednesday
Splitsville defends monogamy
The movie knows we long for monogamy even as we court licentiousness
Wednesday
Highest 2 Lowest is the summer’s best movie
Spike Lee does the right thing
Thursday
Barcelona turns thirty
Revisiting Whit Stillman’s sophomore picture
Thursday
Peter Duchin makes us happy
He is the classiest of class acts
Thursday
Barnes & Noble and me
Is the books giant making a comeback?
Tuesday
Admit it — you love Rudy
An interview with the director David Anspaugh as his new cut is released
Monday
Richard Press on J. Press and the art of getting dressed
More than a century after it was founded, J. Press is keeping Ivy League style alive
Saturday
So long, Orson Welles
His standing among the cognoscenti has taken a tumble over the past decade or so
Friday
Confessions of a Sight and Sound voter
Reckoning with the subjectivity of ranking the greatest films ever
Sunday
At eighty, Casablanca embodies Hollywood high style
The movie still resonates with viewers even to this day
Tuesday
Bullet Train is an unabashedly manly palette cleanser
An action movie can be good or woke, but not both
Monday
The delight of Only Murders in the Building
In some ways, the series is about itself: the fun of following along with an investigation, however grisly
Wednesday
Charlie Rose, comeback king
Hasn’t he spent long enough in time-out?
Thursday
Buster’s land stand
Buster Keaton is again of the moment
Monday
Richard Lester at ninety
He lent ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ the spirit of untamed frivolity
Sunday
Vacation time
The enduring popularity of the Vacation series reflects not just the American appetite for travel, but also that old American virtue of gung-ho optimism
Monday
Fear thy neighbor
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White reviewed
Thursday
The movies’ crush on ‘Auld Lang Syne’
Part of the song’s resonance surely comes from its sheer staying power
