AUGUST 13, 2019 Like him or not, there’s no filmmaker quite like Quentin Tarantino. I can’t think of a single director who is as deeply knowledgeable about the power…
AUGUST 19, 2015 Before I get a resounding response of “Are you kidding?,” I would argue that it’s never too soon to talk about Oscar! To our new readers, before…
AUGUST 13, 2015 It was the same ritual every year. A group of us would meet to see the latest Woody Allen film together on Opening Day. We would wander…
AUGUST 10, 2015 Today they are all over the cable news landscape. They’re labeled as “strategists,” and both parties use them to make their talking points again and again. Yes,…
AUGUST 5, 2015 If your average art-house moviegoer knows anything about “Tangerine,” it’s probably the fact that the entire film was famously shot on an iPhone 5s. You’d never know…
AUGUST 3, 2015 Does Tom Cruise have a death wish? He’s 53, and seeing him hang off the side of a jetliner as it’s taking off, it does make…
JULY 29, 2015 “Don’t judge me, fuckers!” With that one line from the opening of Judd Apatow’s new comedy “Trainwreck,” writer/star Amy Schumer throws down the gender gauntlet to those…
JULY 28, 2015 Director Asif Kapadia caused quite a stir in 2011 with his acclaimed documentary on the life of the late Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna. With “Senna,”…
JULY 22, 2015 In 1971, Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo set out to discover whether the cause of prison violence between guards and inmates rests not in outside forces…
JULY 8, 2015 “The Tribe” is a harrowing drama told entirely in Ukranian sign language. No words. No subtitles. Anyone still with me? Anyone? If you are, please don’t miss…
