We are sometimes amazed at the depth of horror that marks the Shoah. Son of Saul shows us again the inhumanity of the Holocaust in a very personal way. The film from Hungarian director L?szl? Nemes is already garnering Best Foreign Language Film honors from critics...
?I just wanted to give people a reason to believe.? In Don Verdean an archaeologist and dueling pastors seem to be trying to find ways to bolster people?s faith, but it all finally boils down to feeding their own egos. We have to keep in mind this is very broad satire...
?You must love this?living in a camper on the streets of New York spreading Christmas cheer.? In Christmas, Again Noel (Kentucker Audley) works the night shift at a New York City Christmas tree lot. He has worked here for the last few Christmases. But this year he is...
Youth is a meditation on what it means to have grown old. Writer/director Paolo Sorrentino (who won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for The Great Silence) says in the production notes, ?The question I asked myself was, how does one look to the future when one is...
Sometimes Christmas just doesn?t work out. In A Very Murray Christmas (directed by Sofia Coppola and currently streaming on Netflix) Bill Murray?s live Christmas Eve TV special is completely undone by a massive storm and power outage. When he and Paul Shaffer head to...
Do you know the Moomins? They are the characters in a series of Swedish/Finnish children books and comics dating back to the 1930s that have found their way to scores of languages around the world. Now they come to the big screen in Moomins on the Riviera, a...
Early in Janis: Little Girl Blue, we hear Janis Joplin talking about ambition and reducing it to the need to be loved. That need was a driving force in her life, her career, and even in her terrible struggles. Even forty-five years after her death, she continues to be...
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Macbeth is one of several plays by Shakespeare that could easily remind...
French New Wave director Fran?ois Truffaut wrote the book on Alfred Hitchcock?literally. In 1962 he did a series of interviews (through a translator) with Hitchcock over six days with twenty seven hours of tapes discussing each of Hitchcock?s films. He later put...