Faith in monochrome

Joshua Hale Fialkov’s ongoing series The Life After is largely a retelling of Christian mythology, in which the Christian God is an undulating blob of misplaced white limbs and eyeballs….

Steers and jeers

Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 Full Metal Jacket is much more than just a war movie or an anti-war movie. Full Metal Jacket is a riveting, albeit disjointed at times, exploration of…

Sick of being good

Usher in the New Year and the term with Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s comedic masterpiece, ­Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. The dark dramedy catapulted Almodóvar into widespread…