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by | Jan 12, 2025

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

by | Dec 24, 2024

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

by | Dec 23, 2024

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

by | Dec 22, 2024

Critic, schmitic. How can you pretend to be engaged in objective aesthetic appraisal when you’re talking about movies that you…

by | Dec 17, 2024

Gladiator II (2024) is the next installment in failed historical fiction, disappointingly delivered by the director who once brought us…

by | Dec 15, 2024

For ten years, half of them in this magazine, I have rung the death knell for Hollywoke. Earlier this month,…

by | Dec 14, 2024

Every year the number of Christmas movies increases. One-hundred and nine new movies were produced for the 2024 season, with…

by | Dec 13, 2024

Churchill at War: A four-part Netflix documentary starring Christian McKay as Winston Churchill premiered on Dec. 4.  From Gaza to…

by | Dec 8, 2024

The prescription painkiller OxyContin was released by Purdue Pharma in 1995; the six-part TV series Painkiller, created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue…

by | Dec 3, 2024

When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, almost everybody was familiar with the prime-time schedules of the…

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