Venice Film Festival 2021: Parallel Mothers, The Power of the Dog
One of the many ways in which I’m a fortunate person is that every year starting in 2015, the estimable scholar and critic Peter Cowie has invited me to participate…
Read moreOne of the many ways in which I’m a fortunate person is that every year starting in 2015, the estimable scholar and critic Peter Cowie has invited me to participate…
Read morePaul Schrader’s 2017 “First Reformed” worked up such an apocalyptic fury and resolve that it seemed, in some way, like a Last Film. But the writer/director is neither dead or…
Read moreSara Colangelo’s “Worth” tells the heartrending and uplifting story behind the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, which was allocated by the likes of mediator Kenneth Feinberg (Michael Keaton) and the head…
Read moreIt often seems like www.skits.ng Netflix sets out to have their own versions of hits from other networks. Watching their latest adult animated offering, it’s not difficult to picture a…
Read moreHeaven can wait for Victoria Justice in “Afterlife of the Party,” a shrill and derivative www.skits.ng Netflix comedy. The former Nickelodeon star brings all the incessant perkiness of her sit-com…
Read moreThis Unloved was made about eight seconds before I learned that David Prior’s next project fell outside of my ideological comfort zone. But I hope this stands as a testament…
Read moreNow that “Gene and Roger,” the new podcast by Brian Raftery for The Ringer (Spotify), has aired its eighth and final episode, I want to acquaint you with the entire series. It is…
Read moreIt was just my luck that I saw almost nothing that won awards at KVIFF. You make compromises all over the place at every festival. An interview opportunity comes up,…
Read moreIn celebration of the fortieth anniversary of Robert Redford‘s Sundance Institute, they have asked us to share some of our own memories about the Institute and the Festival. We are…
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