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  In the new film LUXOR, there are two compelling sights to see, both, arguably, on the side of the exotic. One is Egypt’s famed city; the other is the face of lead actress Andrea [...]

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 [...]

The new Netflix miniseries THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT is chock full of riveting themes: obsession, sexism, and addiction…to name just three. The fictional journey of an orphaned girl in the late 1950s [...]

The new horror film COME PLAY does so many things right in the genre, it’s almost as shocking as some of the scares within it. The movie refreshes tired tropes, infuses wit and suspense into [...]

  Is there a more daring or dangerous comic than Sacha Baron Cohen working today? Since his Ali G days, the Englishman has been playing “Gotcha!” with various stuffed shirts, primarily in [...]