Hell Yeah Ang Lee

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee will be releasing Life of Pi  on Wednesday. My review will be coming out closer to that time, but meanwhile l...

What's Steven Spielberg's Best Film?

That's the question that Will Leitch and I pondered for Vulture . We put our heads together and ranked the filmmaker's 28 features. ...

The Crazy Career of David O. Russell

In the late '90s, David O. Russell was looked at as one of a crop of new American filmmakers (along with David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Qu...

Your Buddy Ben Affleck

With Argo about ready to come out, I decided to write about the remarkable, unlikely comeback that Ben Affleck has orchestrated over the la...

'Wuthering Heights' and Andrea Arnold

Director Andrea Arnold has made three films, each of them distinctive and resonant. Her latest, an adaptation of Wuthering Heights , impress...

In Praise of Paul Thomas Anderson

I haven't seen The Master yet, so I decided to write at length about Paul Thomas Anderson's legacy to this point. Yes, that's o...

In Praise of Christopher Nolan

On Friday, The Dark Knight Rises finally comes out. In its honor, I decided to dig into what exactly has made Christopher Nolan such a form...

Spike

If you haven't read it yet, my buddy Will Leitch's interview with Spike Lee is pretty darn great. Inspired by the article, I decide...

Is Ridley Scott a Great Director or an Overrated One?

I'm going to cheat and say "both." For Gawker , I explain why the director of Prometheus is not one of my favorites , even th...

What's Next for Andrew Stanton, Director of 'John Carter'?

For this week's IFC Fix piece, I did some thinking about Pixar's Andrew Stanton, who ( as I've mentioned before ) I really like...