Mailbag
February mailbag!
This month: What are Emily's thoughts on all the Oscar contenders? Also: Emily tries to remember what she meant by a thing she wrote several years ago.
movies
Forever 2014
What we get mad about when we get mad about Barbie's Oscar snubs
movies
How Edward Yang's Yi Yi helps you keep track of over a dozen major characters
The 2000 masterpiece perfectly juggles an enormous number of characters.
movies
Toward a definition of "Egg Cinema"
How movies made by seeming cis people sometimes end up super trans.
movies
The best Christmas movie you've (probably) never heard of
The Holly and the Ivy is both deeply old-fashioned and unexpectedly modern.
marriage
The marriage movie
When our best auteurs make movies about marriage, they often make their best movies.
logistics
Repost: What I learned watching the longest movie ever made
Logistics lasts over 35 days, and it might make you think differently about the world.
horror
Five thoughts on Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleep
What's sneaky smart about Doctor Sleep's portrayal of the fallout of an abusive childhood
movies
How Zodiac perfectly places you in its characters' obsessive worldview
Zodiac is the perfect examination of our true crime obsession. And it came out 16 years ago.
movies
The Exorcist, demonic possession, and trans stories
On Regan MacNeil and the cruel nature of having a body
25 minutes on
25 minutes on... Barry Lyndon
Some dashed-off thoughts on my favorite Stanley Kubrick film.
barbie
What we discourse about when we discourse about Barbenheimer
The discourses around Barbie and Oppenheimer have followed very similar patterns.