From ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ to ‘Beautiful Thing,’ Six British Gay Films to Watch for Pride Month
As people look for films to watch on Pride Month, classics like Brokeback Mountain and Moonlight will rightfully make their way to people’s watchlists. But... Read More
Retrospective
‘Funny Games (1998) and (2008)’ retrospective: How Michael Haneke broke the rules in his continent-crossing examination of privilege, nihilism and violence
While both iterations of Funny Games technically ran in their first few festival circuits in 1997 and 2007, it feels appropriate to mark the anniversaries... Read More
‘Titanic’ at 25: My heart still goes on for a masterpiece as magnificent and tragic as the ship itself
Titanic is the first film that I can remember watching. I was too young to see it during its first time in theaters, but first... Read More
From Adam to The Mayor to Glory, ranking of every Big Bad on ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’
The iconic Sarah Michelle Gellar is not only returning to TV screens, but is returning to the realm of monster-hunting with the Paramount+ series Wolf... Read More
20 years ago ‘Chicago’ promised a new era of razzle dazzle movie musicals but Hollywood had… artistic differences [Retrospective]
It remains one of the most effective stylistic gambits in cinema history: Over the course of five cuts in about two seconds, we watch as... Read More
30 years later, does the ‘hoo-ah’ of Al Pacino’s Oscar win for ‘Scent of a Woman’ still smell as sweet? [Retrospective]
I fell in love with Oscarwatching in the 90s – which was a magical time for me in regard to cinema. I began to cultivate... Read More
‘Gangs of New York’ at 20: All the beauty and the bloodshed of Martin Scorsese’s 1860s New York City immigrant mobster tale still holds [Retrospective]
I can still remember walking out of the AMC theater in Framingham, Massachusetts after hearing U2’s powerful song The Hands That Built America and marveling... Read More
‘Tootsie’ at 40: Something’s telling me it might (still) be you – Retrospective
It may be the ultimate personification of the current zeitgeist, but discussion and consideration of gender roles, identification and fluidity is not new, nor is... Read More
‘The Star’ retrospective: Bette Davis put the camp in Oscar campaign in the zenith of meta awards movies
“C’mon, Oscar,” says Bette Davis in The Star (1952), clutching one of her own golden statuettes from the 1930s. “Let’s you and me get drunk!”... Read More
‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ at 30: Justice for Keanu!
Ever since its 1992 release, Francis Ford Coppola’s gonzo pop horror masterpiece Bram Stoker’s Dracula has played host to a performance that regularly tops lists... Read More
14th Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS) Awards: ‘Barbie,’ ‘Daisy Jones and the Six’ Lead Wins 
38th American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards: ‘Oppenheimer’ Wins Feature Film Prize 
71st Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards: ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Maestro,’ ‘Society of the Snow’ Top Film Wins 
74th American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards: ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘The Holdovers’ Take Top Film Honors
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