Each year, wine consumption continues to increase, and more Americans are savvier wine drinkers. Yet, so many questions still surround wine. How is wine made? What is a good vintage? Why does that bottle cost so much? What in the … Continue reading A YEAR IN BURGUNDY
Let us raise our cups. Standing as some of us do on opposite ends of the river, and drink together. … To the movies. To good movies. To every possible kind.” —Orson Welles’ AFI Life Achievement Award acceptance speech, Feb. … Continue reading One last toast to the wunkerkind: Dispatches from the 2018 Telluride Film Festival
On Jan. 1, 2020, Wuhan, China, welcomed a new year and a new decade. That same day, Chinese state media announced that eight individuals were arrested in conjunction with spreading rumors about a new form of pneumonia. Twenty-two days later, … Continue reading IN THE SAME BREATH and BRING YOUR OWN BRIGADE
The year was 1978, and China’s future did not look promising. The country had survived wars, depression, and famine. Plus, a cultural revolution was taxing the nation. Resources were tight, but as the population neared 1 billion, things went from … Continue reading ONE CHILD NATION
Tucker (Stanley Tucci) is an accomplished novelist, and as his ability to recall words goes, so goes his identity. Writer/director Harry Macqueen beautifully illustrates this descent when Sam (Colin Firth) discovers a notebook containing Tucker’s next novel. As Sam flips … Continue reading SUPERNOVA
You can’t control the world, but you can control your reaction. Reactions define the individual, and in Scott Z. Burns’ The Report, the tragic events of 9/11 caused two completely different reactions in two completely different men. It’s just that their … Continue reading THE REPORT
Dick Johnson isn’t dead. Not yet, at least. But he will be. We all will, sooner or later. And it’s sooner for Dick if his daughter has anything to say about it. Born C. Richard Johnson in 1932, Dick was … Continue reading DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
Set among the streets, parks, and apartments of Harlem, 17-year-old Ayanna (Zora Howard, who co-wrote the movie with director Rashaad Ernest Green) has hopes and dreams. But they all hit a sizeable bump in the road when she meets and … Continue reading PREMATURE
Despite the fact that famed Italian cyclist Marco Pantani perpetually looked like a scrawny 40-year-old who went bald over a decade ago, he was one of the strongest riders there ever was. He could go from last to first in … Continue reading PANTANI: THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A CYCLIST
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