Cinema"Casablanca": A Critique or Defence of Centrism?How a movie from eighty years ago lives on today, and what it says about remaining "neutral". 1. Cinema was dead, to begin with....
Cinema"The Grand Budapest Hotel": On Remembering Lost WorldsHow Wes Anderson's "spiritual adaptation" of Stefan Zweig's writing reveals the melancholy – and the danger – in nostalgia. 1. In The Art...
Cinema"Eternal Sunshine": Why Memory Is Lo-FiWhat Michel Gondry's movie, full of practical effects and the noise of film-grain, tells us about the mechanics of memory 1. As our lives...
Cinema"Ex Machina": The Virtue and Vice of EmpathyOn Paul Bloom's "Against Empathy" and how Alex Garland's 2014 film "Ex Machina" explores the arguments for and against empathic feeling....
Cinema"Moonrise Kingdom": How To Grow UpWhat Wes Anderson's film about childhood tells us about being a grown-up – as opposed to simply being an adult. We begin on the island of...
CinemaWhy Does "Lost In Translation" End With a Mystery?Why don't we get to hear what Bob says to Charlotte at the end of the film, and what does this secret tell us about the movie's themes?
