Worst to Best: The films of Alexander Payne ✦
With 'The Holdovers' making a host of Top 10 lists, it's a good time to look back on the career of Middle America's premier cinematic voice.
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What if They Remade ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ and No One Remembered It?
In 1977, Marlo Thomas played Mary Bailey in a star-filled alternate-universe version of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ that’s essentially been erased from memory.
Appendix of Cage 2023: The Year in Nicolas Cage Movies
In 2022, I published a book about Nicolas Cage’s career. But that doesn’t mean I stopped writing it.
#78 (tie): 'Histoire(s) du Cinéma': The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
Jean-Luc Godard's colossal experimental essay covers a century of movies (and music and painting and politics) in typically iconoclastic fashion.