Andrew Kidd

It’s a story we’ve seen many times before, all over the world: the plucky and defiant single mother who weathers both familial rejection and social disapproval in order to succeed against all odds. Where exactly have we seen this, you may ask? For starter... See more

Xiaodan He’s “Montreal, My Beautiful” (Original title: Montréal, ma belle, 2026) contains so many powerful moments of genuine truth and raw emotion that it feels so odd that it seems to end up concealing as much as it reveals. As with Darren Aronofsky’s “... See more

Among the saddest of all cinematic speculations is this: what if Jean Vigo had not died of tuberculosis at the tragically young age of twenty-nine? In a brief eyeblink of a career, Vigo produced just one feature film, two short subjects in the early Thirt... See more

April 5th marks the centenary of Roger Corman (1926-2024), the “King of the Drive-In” who played such a major role in shaping American cinema in the latter half of the 20th century. To celebrate, Turner Classic Movies will be dedicating the entire month o... See more

A “black box” is a nickname for an airplane’s flight recorder, secured in an impenetrable casing so that it can be retrieved after an accident. It’s also a term used in science and engineering to describe any device or system that is clearly functional ye... See more