Essays by

Philippa Snow

On Circularity

This is the second installment of our “Home Movies” column by Philippa Snow, about what we watch when no one’s watching. Watched this week: Birth […]

On Obsession

As a freelance film critic, I cope by allowing my already-solitary day job to merge with my relaxation time, watching movie after movie and TV show after TV show with increasingly little regard for quality or genre.

“This Is the Girl”

If Lindsay Lohan is not and has never been two women sensu stricto, we might be forgiven for believing something different; twice now she has split herself onscreen, and twice the overall effect was of exactly what it was: one girl refracted, even though there were two names, two sets of clothes, two miens.

Body Doubles

In “The Deuce,” James Franco—in what could have been the most Franconian casting stunt since he appeared on General Hospital as a performance artist called James Franco—plays twins.