Christmas Past
Bill Murray has come a long way. His corner office is all black lacquer and... more
Roy Scheider is afraid of the water. He has been his whole life. It’s a difficult one to explain,... more
Pierce Brosnan only has so much time left. He doesn’t know it yet, but this will be his... more
All Roger Moore wants is a drink. He’s had a rough couple of days. He’s Bond—James... more
Sean Connery has been waiting three entire movies to say this line. The first chance he got, Dr.... more
Sean Astin is ready for a break. Time to take a load off. Put up... more
Oliver Reed isn’t wasting any time. He has work to do, and he’ll be god-damned if he’s going to let... more
Kurt Russell needs a moment to himself. It’s been a hard day. Night. Days? It’s hard to tell. He’s... more
Simon Pegg would kill for a beer. Will. Has. Is. Over and over again. An hour into... more
It’s a hot day in Oklahoma, and Kurt Russell has been working hard. At what, we’re not entirely... more
Bill Murray’s Oscar clip comes exactly twenty minutes into Lost in Translation. His... more
In one of the last scenes of High Fidelity, John Cusack drinks a beer. Actually, he doesn't.... more
Kingston Falls, USA is the most beautiful matte painting on earth. An idyllic little town with... more
Halfway through The Shining, Jack Nicholson accepts a glass of whiskey from a ghost. It’s by no... more
Walter Matthau, we assume, has had a bad day. Or a bad night. Or both. Hell, back it up... more
At first, you think it’s going to be that old cliché: men and their brown... more
"I didn't want to ever be outside of this moment. I knew at some point I would look at the picture I'd just taken and feel an overwhelming sense of loss. I thought as long as we could manage to stay inside this particular hotel room, to avoid our phones and every person with whom we'd ever come into contact, we would continue to feel whole. We were revolutionaries, goddamnit. These were our accumulation of beautiful moments. Before the world fractured us. I don't expect you to understand how I became Brad Pitt in that moment, how we all just flew along down the highway. Bandits. Ex-patriots. In love with this countryside, if not this country. Paper Moon. The Last Picture Show. All of this shot in black and white. Only the final scene in color."
FOUR NEW ESSAYS BY CHLOE CALDWELL! Plus the original essays that made you fall in love with Chloe!
Jason Phoebe Rusch is a queer writer from the Chicago suburbs. His full-length debut Dualities explores gender and patriarchy from the perspective of a man who was socialized and is currently still read as a woman. He is interested in complication and nuance and messy human failing, his own and that of others.
