Can You Ever Forgive Me?
We unpack Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? in our True Lies series—how stolen voices, forged letters, and desperation collide—powered by Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant.
The Letter
We unpack The Letter in our Bette Davis series: moonlit shadows, Hays Code pressure, colonial privilege, and a letter that turns into leverage.
Sing Street
We wrap up our John Carney’s Streetwise Musicals series with his 2016 film Sing Street, a wonderful story that’s a bit of wish fulfillment for Carney’s own childhood that delivers on all counts, even if it’s full of tropes.
Begin Again
We continue our John Carney’s Streetwise Musicals series with Carney’s first experience working with a bigger budget and Hollywood actors, specifically Kiera Knightley and Mark Ruffalo. Tune in to hear us chat about Begin Again!
Once
We kick off a new series looking at three musicals about musicians in John Carney’s Streetwise Musicals series. First up, his independent breakout success, Once, starring Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.
Repeat Performance • Member Bonus
It’s time for our December member bonus episode and this month, the members voted to add a holiday film to our film noir series, landing on the Repeat Performance, where a woman is given the chance to relive a year and see if she can fix the mistakes she made.
Night and the City
We return to our Film Noir series with Jules Dassin’s Night and the City, following Richard Widmark’s desperate American hustler as he schemes and double-crosses his way through London’s seedy wrestling underworld.
The Gold Rush
We wrap up our journey through the last 100 years of film and our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series with Charlie Chaplin’s fun film The Gold Rush.
Seven Chances
We continue our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series with a fantastic dose of comedy following a man who has to marry by 7pm in order to get his inheritance. It’s Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances.
The Phantom of the Opera
We continue our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series with the movie with possibly the most confusing history of releases, Rupert Julian’s adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s classic novel “The Phantom of the Opera.”