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The time period of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 is the backdrop for filmmaker Chloe Zhao’s latest film entitled NOMADLAND, but it’s hard to imagine one that would feel more in tune with the [...]

Certain crimes stick in our collective craw, often because they remain unsolved. Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac Killer, the assassination of JFK, these unsolved cases have fascinated armchair [...]

The late, great playwright August Wilson wrote ten plays about the black experience in America known as The Century Cycle and it’s wonderful to see screen adaptations of his work now being [...]

Mary Rodgers’s durable children’s novel Freaky Friday has yielded oodles of screen interpretations including four done by the Walt Disney Corporation alone. The newest take on the material [...]

There are many components of the new film MANK to admire, from its cinematography and editing techniques emulating 40’s style filmmaking to Gary Oldman’s wry, lead performance as screenwriter [...]

The activist author Terry Tempest Williams argued that the greatest sin women commit is in their failure to support each other. That is the sin that Queen Elizabeth commits throughout the fourth [...]