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The Talkies
by | Apr 12, 2025

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

by | Apr 1, 2025

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

by | Mar 30, 2025

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

by | Mar 7, 2025

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

by | Mar 3, 2025

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

by | Feb 17, 2025

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…

by | Feb 2, 2025

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

by | Jan 29, 2025

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

by | Jan 19, 2025

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

by | Jan 12, 2025

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

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