Ah, the musical. A relic of the past. For a time, directors couldn’t fight the impulse to make a musical:…
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“Don’t Cry, Butterfly” (Vietnamese: Mưa trên cánh bướm), the debut feature from Vietnamese filmmaker Duong Dieu Linh, is a film…
Jason Reitman has had quite a successful career commercially. Most of his movies have garnered positive reception from the public…
Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), the confrontational, cantankerous and miserable spitfire in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” is so relentlessly combative that many…
We all know what it feels like to lose someone we love, whether it’s a family member, a friend, or…
A couple decades ago, my friends and I played in a men’s baseball league. We had the youngest team (name:…
I must admit I’m feeling kind of old revisiting “500 Days of Summer,” because when I last saw it, not…
Sean Baker’s “Anora” is a wild, raucous ride, sprinting across a high-wire while somehow maintaining its composure. A filmmaking style…
Cable dramas came to prominence in the late 90s and early 00s. Series like The Sopranos, The Wire, 24 and…
“Every human being is a universe within themselves…floating about in eternal darkness—aimless, lonely,” a man reflects with melancholy through a…