Whatever Happened to Verse Drama?
Richard O’Brien examines the history of the verse drama, and asks whether the decline of blank verse has to be inevitable…
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Independent I: An Interview With Anam Abbas
We talked to Anam Abbas about her upcoming film ‘Showgirls of Pakistan’, a documentary feature on the lives of dancing girls in Punjab, Pakistan.
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Super Bad: The Dubious Tendencies of Judd Apatow
Guest contributor Tristan Marajh questions whether Judd Apatow can be regarded as among the smartest or most compassionate people in Hollywood.
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Private Theatre: Video Diary of a Lost Girl
Film critic Chuck Williamson writes on Lindsay Denniberg’s ‘Video Diary of a Lost Girl’, a film “invested in reconfiguring rape culture paradigms”.
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A Poem I Cannot Write
Flora de Falbe starts our ‘Poets on Poets’ series by reflecting on sexism and censorship in organised religion.
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Reinventing the Reel: Foxcatcher
Film critic Michael Dodd writes on Bennett Miller’s ‘Foxcatcher’, the most unexpected omission from the Academy’s Best Picture nominations.
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Reinventing the Reel: Birdman
Michael Dodd writes on Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’, “a wry look at modern celebrity and the struggle to keep up with an ever-changing digital and fame-obsessed world”.
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Reinventing the Reel: Inherent Vice
Film critic Ben Hynes on Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, a hazy adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’.
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Private Theatre: Gone Girl
Contributing editor Christine Jin writes on David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’, last year’s most hotly debated film.
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Editors’ Books of 2014
Our editors pick the best reads of 2014 that contextualized the year for them.
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