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Tim Grierson

Tim Grierson is a contributing editor at MEL. He writes about film and pop culture for Screen International, Rolling Stone and Vulture.

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‘Marriage Story’ Is a Horror Movie About the Divorce-Industrial Complex

In Noah Baumbach’s acclaimed drama, Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson discover that divorce is designed to make you hate the one you loved

The Male Rape Scene in ‘Deliverance’ Was So Jarring, It Gave Us a Half Century of Jokes

John Boorman’s acclaimed 1972 film gave audiences a depiction of male rape that remains powerful, unsettling and unresolved. Rather than confronting its implications, we’ve spent the last several decades parodying it.

In ‘Terminator: Dark Fate,’ the Future Is Female

Arnold Schwarzenegger is back for the sequel, but the film belongs to its heroines. Truth is, this franchise has always been more feminist than it’s been given credit.