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As I watched SIDNEY, the new documentary about iconic film star Sidney Poitier, I thought of what the Wizard told the Tin Man about hearts not being judged by how much one loves, but by how much [...]

Joyce Carol Oates’ take on the life of Marilyn Monroe in 2000 was not a straightforward biography, but rather, a melange of moments and experiences from the screen star’s life presented as [...]

Saban Films is promoting HOUSE OF DARKNESS as a “reimagining of Bram Stoker’s timeless tale”, but even more than that, the film is a searing indictment of men who think of women as little more [...]

If you mention the name John McEnroe to the uninitiated, they likely know him as an outspoken tennis commentator, or perhaps even the outspoken tennis player who came to fame in the late 1970s. [...]

Many movies have savaged filmmaking from Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BLVD to Robert Altman’s THE PLAYER to Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. The new Spanish Argentine feature OFFICIAL [...]

There’s a lot of excess in ELVIS, director Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic about Elvis Presley. Gleaming cinematography that practically glows in the dark, simple exposition scenes cut like they’re [...]

In filmmaker Michael Glover Smith’s new family dramedy RELATIVE, everything is indeed relative. A college student’s casual indifference to his own graduation party, a Type A daughter’s concern [...]

Tony Soprano. Walter White. Don Draper. Dexter Morgan. Sheila Rubin? Indeed, it may be time to list Sheila, the lead character from Apple TV+’s dramedy PHYSICAL as one of television’s great [...]

Stephen Colbert suggests in the new HBO documentary GEORGE CARLIN’S AMERICAN DREAM that the legendary comedian was like the Beatles to his generation of comics. Colbert is right as not only was [...]

A beleaguered mind can drive any soul to the brink, especially one plagued by a distressing cocktail of anguish, guilt, and depression. In the case of young wife Harper (Jessie Buckley), [...]