Author Djoymi Baker

The current pandemic has not only prompted revived interest in viral dystopian films, but also inflects the way we engage with even the most mundane filmic images. David Edelstein reflects, “the other day I swe...

Few film genres have been so critically despised and disparaged by film critics as the Ancient World epic. Serious, whole-hearted appreciations of such films in the press have been rare. Ridicule, impatience an...

When Giuseppe de Liguoro’s Homer’s Odyssey (1910) was released in the U.S. in 1912, a review in The Moving Picture World praised it for beginning “a new epoch in the history of the motion picture as a facto...