Kyle Turner
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Agatha Christie’s Marple and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Aesthetics of Justice
Nicolas Winding Refn's foray into Agatha Christie TV movies showed the mark of the auteur. → Read More
Why Scream 3 Is the Franchise's Best
Scream 3's irony and insight about uncanny doubles help make the meta-meta-horror into the franchise's best entry. → Read More
The New West Side Story Brings the Show’s Father Issues to the Fore
Director Steven Spielberg, long fixated on absent dads, interrogates this theme and other issues of patriarchy and gender roles in his cinematic take on the classic show. → Read More
Weekend at 10: I Can Hardly Remember Anything
Andrew Haigh's gay romance retains its political complexity ten years after its release. → Read More
Candyman Skewers the Art World’s Exploitation of Black Pain
Writer/director Nia DaCosta and producer/co-writer Jordan Peele update the horror film franchise with a critical look at the commodification of Black trauma. → Read More
Swan Song Review: Udo Kier's Confrontation with History Craves Expression
A meta-meditation on screen legend Udo Kier's career, Swan Song needs more expressive panache to bring its ideas past a simmer. → Read More
'The Woman in the Window' Is a Camp Masterpiece
The widely-panned Netflix thriller is deeply weird, artificial, and excessive—but that's the point. → Read More
Please Spare Us From a 'Knives Out' Cinematic Universe
Netflix’s plan for two sequels could turn a fun mystery into more of the endless content loops demanded by today’s film culture. → Read More
The Best and Most Underrated Director’s Cuts
The Snyder Cut, oddly enough, represents the triumph of the director's cut. Here are 10 more great ones that restore or amplify their creator’s pure vision. → Read More
The Idiosyncratic Archetypes of The Real Housewives
The cast members in the various iterations of the mega-popular franchise demonstrate the increasing self-awareness of performance in reality television. → Read More
Rugrats in Paris: "I Want a Mom That Will Last Forever" Scene Showcases Love and Loss
Rugrats in Paris and Cyndi Lauper’s “I Want a Mom That Will Last Forever” collide in a surprisingly touching, smart storyline about love, loss, and communication. → Read More
Sean Connery and the Bond Goodbye
Sean Connery’s portrayal of James Bond and his personal history are crucial to understand precisely because of the strange, almost pleasurably parasitic relationship that existed between Bond and a cultural conception of masculinity. → Read More
Quaran-Scenes: “I Put a Spell on You” in Hocus Pocus
At its essence, Hocus Pocus is a kind of celebrity, the kind that transcends into iconography, where the idea of the thing is both how it's kept alive and how it is more powerful than the thing itself. → Read More
Quaran-Scenes: Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me?
In "Quaran-Scenes," writers take a look at some of their favorite scenes from cinema: how and why they “work,” and what about those scenes they love so much. → Read More
Quaran-Scenes: “Annie’s Song” and Impossible Longings
In "Quaran-Scenes," writers take a look at some of their favorite scenes from cinema: how and why they “work,” and what about those scenes they love so much. → Read More
Quaran-Scenes Jeremy Hersh's The Surrogate
In "Quaran-Scenes," writers take a look at some of their favorite scenes from cinema: how and why they “work,” and what about those scenes they love so much. → Read More
New Queer Reading of 2004's The Stepford Wives Remake
'The Stepford Wives' remake in 2004 came at a curious time for gay culture and its place in straight culture. → Read More
Watching Stephen Sondheim's Evening Primrose in Quarantine
Watching James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's cult TV musical 'Evening Primrose' in quarantine can provide cold comfort to those of us afraid for what waits outside. → Read More
In 1970, the Original Cast of Company Went Through Hell to Record Their Album
Despite being out of circulation, the 1970 behind-the-scenes Broadway documentary Original Cast Album: Company remains revered by both film and theater fans. → Read More
50+ Queer Writers, 50+ Favorite Queer Films
For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, here she is, girls, here she is, world: 50+ queer writers and their 50+ favorite queer films. → Read More