"My life is a chronicle of unbelievable mistakes." So writes Patricia Highsmith, the acclaimed author of Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, The Talented ...
At the end of the 1970s, while working as a bat boy for the Portland Mavericks, Todd Field had a bright idea: why not make a stringy-shaped gum (call it Big Le...
Certain literary works feel destined for adaptation; with Don DeLillo’s postmodern classic White Noise, published in 1985, it was surely inevitable. Inevitable...
A new cinematic drinking game has arrived. It's a doozy, too, when taking a shot every time writer-director Neil LaBute uses an intertitle demarking time in Ou...
In A Little Love Package, Vienna's institutions, people, buildings, and overlapping epochs make for a stiff drink: a bright, effervescent, lightly intoxicating...
In Tales of the Purple House, French-Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel and his wife, Lebanese artist Nour Ballouk, offer a collaborative video diary of the last few...
There’s no better form of getting over a dead parent or spouse than combatting a killer animal. At least that’s the thesis of The Shallows, Crawl, and now Beas...
The few people bobbing up in Ana Vaz’s It Is Night in America are anonymous ciphers, their faces scarcely (if at all) visible, protruding limbs or silhouettes ...
A favorite of Leah Purcell's as a child, Henry Lawson's short story "The Drover's Wife" was always at the front of her mind when growing into adulthood as an a...
On its surface, The Immaculate Room is a contest. A game. If you and your romantic partner can spend fifty days in a stark white room with nothing but a bed, m...
