Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Cocktail and Rainman (1988)
Cockman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Autism) Tom Cruise began his film career in 1981 and soon he became the heartthrob everyone knows him to... Read More
Film Reviews
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Ghosts Can’t Do It, Dances With Wolves and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
“A Ghost, an Officer, and a Gentleman” In 1990 there was an enduring film about a couple who loved each other so much that even... Read More
REVIEW: ‘Into the Woods’
Stephen Sondheim’s musical treatment of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales has been all but canonized by lovers of “highbrow” musical theatre. As such, the selection... Read More
REVIEW: ‘Annie’ (2014)
It’s been three decades since the last time we saw Annie on the big screen and with a winking poke at the traditionally (white) red-headed... Read More
REVIEW: ‘Still Alice’ (★★★½)
There is a scene early on in Still Alice where Julianne Moore’s Columbia University professor Dr. Alice Howland is giving a speech on linguistics to... Read More
37th Mill Valley Film Festival Capsule Reviews: The Imitation Game, Whiplash, Force Majeure, Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum) Alan Turing won World War II. The creator of the decoder of Germany’s legendary Enigma machine, Turing’s genius and persistence... Read More
37th Mill Valley Film Festival Capsule Reviews: The Homesman and Two Days, One Night
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones) In Tommy Lee Jones’s second directorial effort he gives us the story of a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) who is... Read More
Telluride Reviews: Oscar Hopefuls ‘The Imitation Game,’ ‘Rosewater,’ ‘Wild’
The 41st Telluride Film Festival is underway and classically it’s one of the shortest high profile film festivals around. With just five days to pack... Read More
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Under the Cherry Moon & Howard the Duck and Platoon (1986)
“A Duck, a Soldier, and a Prince Walk Into a Bar” A rare occurrence happened in 1986; the Razzies awarded two films as the Worst... Read More
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Leonard Part 6 and The Last Emperor (1987)
1987 brought us two visually compelling films with two iconic lead characters. One film is about one of the most powerful men in the world... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 136 – ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ (Warren Beatty, 2016) 
2026 Oscar Nomination Reactions from Timothée Chalamet, Rose Byrne, Wagner Moura and More 
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 329 – 98th Oscar Nominations Reactions: For Good 
Oscar Nominations: ‘Sinners’ Breaks All Time Record with 16, Sets Several Places in Academy Awards History