How the Movies Have Always Made Us Paranoid

George Wead

Sept 01, 2017 7:23 AM

In Get Out, the Horror Lies in the Details

Sam Adams

Aug 29, 2017 8:05 AM

The Bourne Trilogy Proved There’s No Shutting Down the Deep State

Sam Adams and Dana Stevens

Aug 15, 2017 8:00 AM

Audiences Didn’t Need Sunglasses to See Reality in They Live

Jonathan Lethem

Aug 09, 2017 7:45 AM

With They Live, John Carpenter Hid Political Commentary in a Campy B-Movie

D. Harlan Wilson

Aug 03, 2017 12:24 PM

They Live Is a Sci-Fi Horror Movie About Getting Woke

Sam Adams

Aug 01, 2017 8:01 AM

The Parallax View Was Designed to Make You Paranoid

Jonathan Kirshner

July 27, 2017 12:16 PM

In The Parallax View, Political Assassination Is Just One Strike in a Covert Political War

Art Simon

July 21, 2017 11:22 AM

The Parallax View Makes Viewers Feel Like They’ve Been Brainwashed, Too

Sam Adams

July 18, 2017 9:01 AM

Critics Called Blow Out a Trashy Horror Movie. In Fact, It’s a Deeply Personal Study of Obsession.

Douglas Keesey

July 13, 2017 10:53 AM

In Blow Out, Exposing the Truth Doesn’t Get You a Happy Ending

Sam Adams

July 04, 2017 9:10 AM

In Enemy of the State, We’re All Under Constant Surveillance—and That’s Just Fine

Catherine Zimmer

June 29, 2017 11:56 AM

The Conversation Wasn’t About Nixon, but It Perfectly Encapsulated Post-Watergate Paranoia

Jonathan Kirshner

June 22, 2017 1:35 PM

How The Conversation and Enemy of the State Foresaw Our Age of Ubiquitous Surveillance

Sam Adams and Isaac Butler

June 20, 2017 8:00 AM

How Hollywood Made Woodward and Bernstein Into Superheroes

Mark Feeney

June 14, 2017 1:50 PM

What All the President’s Men Tells Us About Investigating a Corrupt President

Sam Adams

June 06, 2017 8:10 AM

Paranoia Rises When We Distrust Our Government

Ray Pratt

May 31, 2017 4:05 PM

How The Manchurian Candidate Anticipated Decades of Conspiracy Theories

Gordon Arnold

May 26, 2017 9:04 AM

How the Conspiracy Thriller Infiltrated Cinema (and Our Paranoid Imaginations)

Jonathan Rosenbaum

May 24, 2017 10:58 AM

The Manchurian Candidate Began Life as a Lurid Cold War Satire. That’s Not How It Plays Today.

Sam Adams

May 23, 2017 4:57 PM