What greater hell could exist for a parent than the loss of a child? The lengths they would go to undo what has been done, the bargains they would cut, must be bottomless. Pain that fathomable—even for those who haven’t … Continue reading BRING HER BACK
The two most interesting moments in The Phoenician Scheme—the latest from director Wes Anderson—come at the beginning and end of the movie. As for what happens in between, we’ll get there. By the beginning, I don’t mean the actual opening … Continue reading THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
Some topics never go out of fashion. We really wish they would, but we never seem to be that lucky. On June 1, the Women+Film Festival will host a community conversation: The Makings of a Moral Panic (10 a.m.), exploring … Continue reading Wish You Were Here: Previewing the 2025 Women+Film Festival
For the past 30 years, Ethan Hunt has had a choice. “Your mission, if you choose to accept.” And he accepts; he always does. But what if Hunt never had a choice to start with? I guess the choice: “Yes … Continue reading MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING
Everybody has a friend like Withnail. And everybody’s worked for a Denis. That’s easy to see. It gets harder when, one day, you stare into the mirror and see either of them looking back. When that day comes, it’s time … Continue reading WITHNAIL AND I and HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING
They don’t make ’em like they used to. That’s a line you’re bound to hear anytime you talk to someone fixated on the yesteryears of cinema. Their position: Movies are a paradise lost. But if you know even the surface … Continue reading Grand Illusions: Dispatch from the 16th TCM Classic Film Festival
It’s been four years since Karsh lost his wife. It probably feels less, considering Karsh (Vincent Cassel) owns both the graveyard where she is buried and the restaurant next door. That’s where he takes dates and discloses that his beloved … Continue reading THE SHROUDS
The father has two sons and one of them is rotten. The only problem is the father sees more of himself in the rotten one than the other. This here is the West, and 20 years ago, it took men … Continue reading GUNMAN’S WALK
The year was 1919, and Charles Chaplin, along with Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith, and Mary Pickford, formed the distribution company United Artists. Four years later, made with his own money and on his own schedule, Chaplin released his first film … Continue reading A WOMAN OF PARIS
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