The characters in Max Barbakow’s terrific 2020 time-loop comedy Palm Springs confront their existential crisis with denial, anger, and curiosity. As someone who left the religion of my youth, I found that very familiar.

12+1 questions with actor Andrea Pavlovic about her earliest horror movie memory, working with practical effects, and how In a Violent Nature reflects our times.

The author of The Typewriter Revolution picks his favorite scene-stealing writing machines from the silver screen.

I’ve loved classic Hollywood for as long as I can remember. Here are some of my favorite underrated comedies from that era.

The creator of The Podcast Around the Corner picks her favorite underrated scenes that feature love in many different forms.

12+1 questions about the movie’s legacy 20 years later, his favorite character to write, working with a deaf consultant, and that infamous dinner scene.

12+1 questions with the nine-time Oscar nominated composer about his collaborations with M. Night Shyamalan, his writing process, the most underappreciated instrument, and much more!

Scream is as much about the journey as it is about the destination. There’s a grim excitement in trying to guess who Ghostface is, only to find that your chief suspect gets skewered in the following scene.

“Be like Olive” and other takeaways from Abigail Breslin’s sweet, pageant-obsessed character in Little Miss Sunshine.

While I knew Cameron Crowe’s heart-soaked, intergenerational coming of age classic would be with me forever, I couldn’t have predicted how it would change with me as I moved through life.

When I rewatch Luca Guadagnino’s masterful 2017 film, my heart is widened by the extraordinary display of love, support, and affection by Elio’s father Sami.

When you watch an Astaire and Rogers musical, you are getting a piece of the movie musical Rosetta Stone.

Perfect actors, perfect script, perfect setting, perfect emotion. After you watch Moonstruck, you can’t help but look back and think, what was in that recipe?

The history of cinema is full of Black artists, performers, and activists who affected positive change in their time but often failed to receive their deserved acclaim. 

12+1 questions about his experience shooting the neo-noir classic Fargo, Swedish cuisine, how to get eaten by CGI dinosaurs, what people often get wrong about him, and more.