Not everyone can grow old gracefully.  Those that can? They can be quite adorable. Last night I watched The Dink , the pickleball movie, in ...

I'm sure this isn't the sort of publicity the nice publicist wanted for the French film The Party's Over! , which I will be revi...

Asghar Farhadi and Hirokazu Kore-eda have a shared lineage in my personal film history as well as my personal MIFF history. Both had a film ...

It used to be that when I went to the Melbourne International Film Festival, I felt like the time between when my work gets out and when the...

Why does there have to be such overlap in the Venn diagram of people with right-wing politics and people who know how to commandeer the inte...

I've owed you a post for about six days now. In fact, I started writing one last Friday, which, if I'd finished, would have been my ...

I only ever saw Glen Hansard in one movie. I thought he was only ever in one movie -- the way we think of traditional narrative features, a...

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a movie my younger son has been anticipating for months. Six months, he said, though it's probably longer ...

The Los Angeles-based group Cinespia, which hosts screenings at the Hollywood Cemetery, still sends me emails. Why wouldn't they? I neve...

In 2026 I am rewatching my 12 favorite films on Flickchart that I've seen only once, and writing about them each month. Carl Theodor Dre...

I was going to call this post "Madonna is not a terrible actress," as a callback to last weekend's post on fellow singer Brit...

Milestone alert! Olivier Assayas' The Wizard of the Kremlin -- which I saw on Wednesday via a screener for its Thursday release in Aust...