video essay
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.
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.
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.
Video Essay: Falling in Reverse
What happens if you take one of cinema's most recognizable tropes, and then turn it upside down?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.











