Be Kind Rewind

In this video I talk about Faye Dunaway's Oscar win, Liv Ullmann, and why Network is an interesting movie in 2021.

In this video I dive deep into the themes and production history of Billy Wilder's underrated classic, A Foreign Affair. It's a weird movie, and I'm obsessed with it.

In this video I talk about some of the common threads that connect (or don’t) the 7 women who have been nominated for the Best Director Oscar.

In this video I take a look at how Katharine Hepburn’s real life beliefs and behaviors made their way into her star persona.

In this video, we take a look at how Madonna uses classic film references to comment on politics, sexuality, and her star persona.

In 1951, Vivien Leigh won her second Best Actress Oscar for playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. In this video I look at some of the challenges posed by adapting that play for the screen and how she acted alongside the cast of the original Broadway production.

In this video, I dive deep into the career of Deborah Kerr. I talk about her ladylike persona, why it’s not quite as ladylike as you might think, the timing of her fame, and why she tends to be overlooked as a celebrity.

In this video, I take a look at why The Addams Family was called “television’s answer to whatever you don’t like about the 20th century” and think about what that means in the 1960s vs. 1990s.

In this video I talk about the career of Lee Grant: how she was blacklisted, how she got off the list, and how it shaped both her art and her world view.

This holiday season, I asked some of my favorite YouTubers to recommend a great performance in a movie they love. Here's what they had to say!

In this video I talk about how the 1961 film version of West Side Story differs from the 2021 version.