A Journey Through Cinema’s

Eighteen years ago, my grandmother sat me down in front of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. I did not know then that I was being handed a lifelong relationship. I have loved Steven Spielberg ever since. The first film of his I saw in theaters was The Adventures of Tintin, just before Christmas in 2011. A few…

There is a wonderful film buried inside Pressure, and it lasts about fifteen minutes. The history it draws on is irresistible, and almost no one knows it. In the seventy-two hours before D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion ever attempted hinged not on a general’s nerve but on a forecast. Group Captain James Stagg, a punctilious…

There is a moment near the end of The Devil Wears Prada 2 — Miranda Priestly turns to Andy Sachs from the back of a car and says, quietly, “I just love working, don’t you? I love what I do and I feel I have a few more good years to do it.” Andy says…

I have loved Saturday Night Live for as long as I can remember loving anything on television. I came to it the way most people do, through reruns and clips and the slow accumulation of the cultural shorthand the show has been generating for half a century, and I have stayed with it through the…