Thirty Seconds to Midnight
Michael Mann’s Heat presents us with the logical conclusion of action movie masculinity, while Johnnie To’s Running Out of Time provides a way out of that impasse
Grace for the Guilty
Detective fiction and religion may appear to be polar opposites of one another – one an exercise in fact-finding, the other in myth-making – but in reality, they are both modes of storytelling that are chiefly concerned with mystery and truth.
Spectres of Other Histories
Haunting is the fundamental literary gesture of the Gothic as a genre, and its horrors can be a way of exploring the ghosts of the past that haunts our present.
