As a movie and television critic who scans industry publications for the latest news, I was quite surprised last November…

There aren’t many true masculine figures left in television. Jon Hamm is one of the last. You feel it immediately…

Robert Altman’s film The Player (1992), which explores the dark underbelly of Hollywood with its story of an unscrupulous producer,…

Everything you need to know about the current state of American culture can be learned in this weekend’s movie box-office…

Of the recently departed Gene Hackman’s greatest hits — take your pick among The French Connection, Unforgiven, and The Royal…

When covering last year’s Academy Awards, I described the Academy as “playing safe” by bringing back Jimmy Kimmel as the…

I had the good fortune to catch Becoming Led Zeppelin the other night in Manhattan. Even better, I experienced this motion picture in IMAX. What…

Last week I watched a scene in a new movie I’d waited 20 years to see, which may signal the…

Until the other day, I was unfamiliar with the work of Rob Tregenza, a Kansas-born, UCLA-educated filmmaker who has written,…

In the second act of “Waiting for Godot” Vladimir and Estragon have it out in an insult contest. They go…