The blessing and curse of being a combination film devotee and writer is that movie memories blend with real life…

On Thursday, February 23, the two-week-long, nonstop religious revival at tiny Asbury University in rural Wilmore, Kentucky saw its official…

For Americans of a certain age — that is to say, Americans who were born and grew up during what…

If you’re like me, you’ve always been somewhat dissatisfied with the annual Academy Awards telecast — and, for that matter,…

I first discovered HBO’s hit series The White Lotus through the hosts of the controversial Red Scare podcast, upon whom…

When I wrote my recent essay for this magazine about the death of beauty in cinema, I didn’t mean the…

I intended to write only one movie-themed Valentine’s Day piece this week — on how the death of the heteronormative…

The franchise of Bond, James Bond has suffered the same fate as some other companies in corporate America: it has…

Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances By David Thomson (Knopf, 288 pages, $30) Eighty-two years old this month, David…

The other day, after watching the 2015 Swedish movie A Man Called Ove for the first time — an experience…