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If you can’t say something nice about a year, then…it was probably 2024.< Nevertheless, the latest annus horriblis did manage to provide some great big and...
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If you can’t say something nice about a year, then…it was probably 2024.< Nevertheless, the latest annus horriblis did manage to provide some great big and...
Selected and introduced by Patton Oswalt & Jordan Blum Written and Illustrated by Various Published by The Folio Society Let’s get one thing...
Everyone spends the Halloween season watching scary movies, but fewer embrace the wonderful books that can thrill, terrorize and entertain. Well, those days are...
1. RESERVATION DOGS (FX on Hulu) The Rez Dogs stuck the landing in a final season packed with everything that made the quietly...
1. AMERICAN FICTION Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, writer/director Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is a quietly angry, laugh-out-loud goof on...
There’s nothing like a crisp fall evening with a roaring fire, a glass of warmed apple cider, and a frighteningly good book that stirs...
There are only so many hours in a day — especially when Daylight Savings springs forward right in the middle of the SXSW Film & TV...
Founded in 1987 as a music festival, the Austin, TX event known as South by Southwest (a.k.a., SXSW) added films to the mix in...
Quentin Tarantino is known not only for his masterfully shot films, where bloody scenes are elevated to the rank of high art, but also...
It’s no exaggeration to say that I adore movies: at the theater or at home, alone or with friends, there are few things I...
As always, it was impossible to see everything at the 2022 edition of the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, TX — especially...
In 2020, the cancellation of South by Southwest in Austin, Texas was an early indication that COVID-19 was just about to bring the entire...
Wildcards (potentially list-worthy movies as yet unseen by moi): Antlers, Pig, Last Night in Soho, Coda, The Sparks Brothers, West Side Story, The Tragedy...
* Wildcards (potentially list-worthy 2021 shows as yet unseen by moi): Yellowjackets, Squid Game, Dopesick, Station Eleven, Hacks, We Are Lady Parts, For All...
Just saw No Time To Die and…um, so…all the “controversy” surrounding it was clearly a marketing scheme, right? Like, there aren’t REALLY any dinosaurs...
A fair number of sci-fi and horror pictures in the 80s betray worries over television: it fools us, it makes us violent, it brainwashes...
With summer coming and the pandemic restrictions lifted, it’s time to once again look for the right place to get away from it...
I looked back to movies whose impact have stayed with me, back to a time when filmmaking did not have the technical wizardry or...
I recently posted my Top Five favorite movies from the virtual edition of the 2021 South by Southwest multimedia festival — but here are...
With a year to prepare after becoming one of the first major American events derailed by the coronavirus in 2020, the virtual 2021 South...
There have been hundreds of movies and TV series set in the time of Rome, from the days of its kings to the fall...
If I’m remembering the family lore correctly, my parents brought three-year-old me to a screening of Love Story in 1970, meaning that it’s literally...
After Joe Dante’s Gremlins became a surprise hit in summer 1984, it spawned a small but popular bunch of imitators. Like the gremlin creatures...
I thought it would be fun to list actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood who are famous for dramas, comedies, or...