Good actors show up in terrible films. This year’s The Leisure Seeker is an example: the great Helen Mirren works…

I’m intrigued by the notion that despite their futuristic ideals, liberals are obsessed with the past in nostalgic ways. On…

Remember video stores? They tended to be hole-in-the-wall shops stacked floor to ceiling with VHS cassettes of every movie you…

The waves of the Pacific Ocean can be mesmerizing, providing solace and peace and, for surfers, excitement — a welcome…

The heavy-handedness of the irony in Sean Baker’s new movie, The Florida Project, begins with the opening titles, over which…

The Society of Mayflower Descendants in Plymouth, Massachusetts, keeps pretty close watch over folks who can trace their lineage back…

Films about race and racism can be important. They’re also difficult to make. Witness Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation,…

Frances McDormand is a force. It’s something in the actress’s voice, her eyes, her sense of humor and her quiet…

Steve Carell has often said the way to deal with hardship is through humor. The man we know from The…

Growing up with a Protestant minister for a father, I learned very little about Catholicism. I knew Christianity — the…