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Video Essay: Stephen King at the Movies

With The Dark Tower in theaters and It on the horizon, we look at the many and varied Stephen King adaptations.

August 4, 2017

Video: If The Graduate Had the Soundtrack from Garden State

Kentucker Audley looks at what happens when Dustin Hoffman's breakthrough movie is shorn of Simon & Garfunkel and gets some hip new songs.

July 19, 2017

Video Essay: Liar Liar and the Importance of Family

Kentucker Audley, the internet's most insightful video essayist, delves deep into the complexities of Jim Carrey's 1997 classic.

June 19, 2017

Video Essay: Falling in Reverse

What happens if you take one of cinema's most recognizable tropes, and then turn it upside down?

May 1, 2017

Video Essay: She’s All That and the Power of Transformation

Talkhouse Film's senior video essayist Kentucker Audley highlights the pleasures (and faults!) of yet another classic movie

April 24, 2017

Video Essay: Malick’s Shadows

With Terrence Malick's Song to Song in theaters now, Jacob T. Swinney's video essay looks at a recent motif in the director's films.

March 22, 2017

Video Essay: Richie Rich and the Search for Friends in Cinema

Kentucker Audley continues his series of transformative video essays by examining another classic '90s film, this time starring Macaulay Culkin.

February 21, 2017

Video: She Persisted by Steve Lippman

Women including Rosanne Cash, Carly Simon and Bridget Everett read Coretta Scott King's letter on Jeff Sessions in solidarity with Elizabeth Warren.

February 14, 2017

Video Essay: Mark Rappaport on The Empty Screen

A new video essay from Mark Rappaport about movies in movies, and how the screen watches us just as we watch it.

February 6, 2017

Video Essay: The Essence of Agony

Nathan Silver, who has cast his mother Cindy in nearly all his films, tries to make sense of their complex and often fraught working relationship.

December 14, 2016

Video Essay: Linas Phillips Brings Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill “In Focus”

Writer-director Linas Phillips marks the release of his new film Rainbow Time by demystifying the genius of one of his favorite funny movies.

November 3, 2016

Video Essay: Mr. Holland’s Opus — What Music Is?

Kentucker Audley continues his series of video essays with a new entry that focuses on the classic '90s drama starring Richard Dreyfuss.

October 12, 2016