Cathy Brennan turns the attention back onto the critics: why do we watch the films we do, and what happens to the films we don’t?

Esmé Holden explores how the precision of Minnelli’s mise-en-scène creates a platonic formula for nostalgia in Meet Me in St. Louis.

Join S Paul as he unspools threads on Justin Bieber, Chicago drill, and theory, in an essay that is both sprawling and tightly interwoven.

Welcome back to Cinema Year Zero. 

Matt Kennedy uses his study of autoethnography to highlight a moment in Kimberly Peirce's 1999 film. 

In her CYZ debut, Esmé Holden locates spirituality within the materialistic world of Max Ophüls’ 1953 masterpiece The Earrings of Madame de…

Want to know what was lit and what was shit at Locarno this year? Then check out Joseph Owens’ report on the Swiss festival.

Kirsty Asher interrogates the politics of 2021 animation Cryptozoo in light of the January 6th Insurrection

What is Denpa? Ellisha Izumi unpacks this familiar yet enigmatic Japanese genre.

Kirsty Asher connects Cold War paranoia to psychogeography via Andrej Żuławski’s classic horror film.