film column
Second Screen: Why S.W.A.T. is Beating Hollywood Action Movies at Their Own Game
Jim Hemphill on the surprising pleasures of the newly rebooted TV franchise, which delivers both high-octane thrills and a real social perspective.
Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Foxes
LaBruce continues his alternative canon with Adrian Lyne's 1980 teen drama, which remarkably captures Jodie Foster coming of age.
Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: The Fox
LaBruce sets the record straight about Mark Rydell's unfairly maligned adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's lesbian-themed novella.
The ‘70s Seen: Paul Mazursky’s Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Steve Lippman is moved by the great writer-director's most personal and deeply felt film, a semi-autobiographical portrait set in 1950s New York City.
Second Screen: Why Madam Secretary is the Best Political TV Show Ever
Jim Hemphill enumerates the many ways in which he loves the series which has finally provided Téa Leoni with the role she deserves.
Bruce LaBruce on the Forgotten Genius of Frank and Eleanor Perry
The Canadian auteur shines a light on the excellent but mostly forgotten work of the husband-and-wife filmmaking team from the '60s and '70s.
Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Last Summer
LaBruce extols the virtues of Frank and Eleanor Perry’s shocking coming-of-age drama that captures the loss of innocence of the late 1960s.
Second Screen: Riverdale, or if Fassbinder Had Directed 90210
Jim Hemphill on the deliriously enjoyable CW show, which is so referential it makes Tarantino look like Bresson.
The ’70s Seen: Miloŝ Forman’s Taking Off
Steve Lippman continues his exploration of everyone's favorite cinematic decade by revisiting Forman's inexplicably overlooked social satire.
Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Little Darlings
LaBruce inducts the 1980 feminist teensploitation movie starring Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol into his alternative canon.
Second Screen: NCIS: New Orleans is the Rio Bravo of Police Procedurals (No, Really)
Jim Hemphill explains why this spinoff of a long-running cop show has some of the best qualities of Howard Hawks' 1959 classic Western.
Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Making Love
Talkhouse Film's champion of the cinematic underdog shares his affection for Arthur Hiller's pre-AIDS gay melodrama.











