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…

When the actress Michele Yeoh accepted the best actress Oscar for her performance in the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All…

Charles Dickens’s landmark publication A Christmas Carol (1843), the story of  Ebenezer Scrooge the miserly misanthrope who is transformed by…

Asked in an interview recently to name my favorite Christmas movie, I went through the usual routine of naming several…