Starting with the plain white opening titles against a black background, Woody Allen’s latest romantic comedy, “Café Society,” has all…
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Louise Brooks. Pola Negri. Douglas Fairbanks. Fritz Lang. René Clair. Ernst Lubitsch. Victor Fleming. Buster Keaton. If any of these…
No doubt, the documentary “The First Monday in May” will draw comparisons to “The September Issue,” although done by different…
The theme of “unlikely friendships” in a film may be over used and sometimes used ineffectively, but for Sweet Bean…
SXSW 2016 HONORABLE MENTIONS 1. ACCIDENTAL COURTESY: DARYL DAVIS, RACE & AMERICA Thought-provoking and (during at least one SXSW post-screening…
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art–“the Met”–is open every day of the year except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year’s…
1. THE TOWER Winner of both the SXSW 2016 Jury and Audience Awards for Best Documentary, director Keith Maitland’s animated/non-fiction…
Twenty years after “My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument” was released in France, its sequel/prequel “My…
In 1926, German director Fritz Lang stunned international audiences with his masterpiece Metropolis and its depiction of a false utopia…
Okay…My wife & I are fortifying ourselves with pizza & onion rings…a vapid model’s being vapid on E! It’s #Oscar2016…
“Embrace of the Serpent” is a rare and remarkable film inspired by the travels of two scientific explorers, one in…
Top Ten lists are obviously subjective…so what makes a movie Best of 2015 material? For me, it’s usually about some…
It turns out that murdering six million Jews takes a lot of work. Herding them off the trains; persuading them…