Herman Wouk’s celebrated novel The Caine Mutiny and play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial couldn’t even be called “peak boomer”; it’s pre-boomer. And having been...
With Venice Film Festival wrapping up after quite an epic year, Damien Chazelle's jury handed out their awards, giving the top prize to Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor ...
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed deep in the Andes, en route to Chile. The 45 passengers included the Old Christian Rugby team, friends, and fam...
Tempting though it is to pen this review in the voice and style of Mort Rifkin, the most indelible Woody Allen character in years, the embattled New York-born ...
One night in 2016, I was working at a small movie theater in Austin, Texas, when a man leaned over the cash register and shook my hand. “Thanks for tonight,” h...
“The only difference between children and grown-ups is that the grown-ups are unsupervised.” This line, uttered in the second half of Bill Ross IV and Turner R...
The second part of this year’s Venice Film Festival shines with at least two firsts: Ava DuVernay is the first African-American female director competing for t...
Politics are the enemy in Gábor Reisz’s Explanation for Everything, an ambitious, entertaining effort from the Hungarian filmmaker to address the crisis of div...
Raised in tow of a military stepfather, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu lives in a West German US Air Force base when we meet her in 1959––the year she meets El...
Where to begin with Bertrand Bonello’s wonderful The Beast? It’s been so gratifying to see the initial reaction to the French filmmaker’s tenth feature, after ...
