Top Ten Films: 2016

Another year, another awards season. But this was no ordinary year. Where to begin, when we speak of 2016? Most years, I just pick my favorite films, and that’s it. But this year, it felt important to really think about these choices, and what they expressed about my feelings this year. That’s not to say […]

Monsters In Moonlight: The Year’s Best Dramas Come Out To Play

The “coming out” film has been the cornerstone of queer cinema for at least a couple of decades. For all the progress the LGB… (sorry, I’ve lost track of how many letters are supposed to be attached to that alphabet soup) movement has made in shifting from the niche to the mainstream in that time, […]

The Dark Bond Rises: ‘Skyfall’ Lifts 007 To New Heights

Fifty years of James Bond. Can you believe it? Of course you can. In a way, it’s surprising that we’ve only had fifty years of James Bond, because he’s such a relic. The more everything changes, the more he stays the same. Sure, the franchise has made a few minor efforts to update him for […]