Charlie Chaplin’s films are insightful explorations of poverty, homelessness, and the callous moneyed classes. They also show cinema’s capacity to act as a small empathy-generating machine.

How the popular subgenre of apocalyptic Christian horror media has shaped a generation of evangelical thinking.

Recall your favorite nineties trends- the bucket hat, high-security purple diaries, and harbingers of the climate apocalypse. What about these films sticks with us?

A closer look at the economics of Black pop culture reveals that most Black creators (outside music) come from middle-to-upper middle class backgrounds, while the Black poor are written about but rarely get the chance to speak for themselves.

How the myth of the genius director has erased the careers of some very talented women, and why it’s time for the “auteur” to be tossed out entirely.

The films of Jean-Pierre Melville are stylish and seductive. Their meaning isn’t obvious—nor should it be. A look at some of the most original and satisfying films of the last century.

Cyberpunk’s bleak vision is aesthetically stylish but its diagnoses are shallow and unsatisfying.

10 years after the launch of Game of Thrones, Samuel Miller McDonald looks back at its promising start—and how it all went wrong.