2024 got off to an auspicious cinematic start with the very first Sundance selection I saw staying with me all year long. As I wrote in my intro to an interview I did with the film’s director Silje...
Nosferatu wants to know where our prayers go when they have been cast into the ether. Do they rise before whatever gods we worship to join that vast and everlasting memorial, the eternal inbox, some...
It feels strange to start a new year off with a paean to a horror movie, but one of my resolutions for 2025 is to honor that which has, in my mind, been drastically overlooked. Just kidding, I...
It’s my staunch belief that Christmas movies are supposed to be insane. That’s because the season itself is insane, dark and cold, and lit up by lights that make you feel nostalgic for moments...
“40 million birds had disappeared from our skies. We’ve lost 97% of all our wildflower meadows. We’ve ploughed up 75,000 miles of hedgerows. We’ve lost tens of thousands of ancient woodlands....
Everyone wonders how an elderly gentleman can climb down chimneys every Christmas and deliver all those presents in one night. The answer is simultaneously simple and implausible: magic. Although...
“America’s not a country, it’s just a business. Now fucking pay me!” Jackie Cogan’s last line from Andrew Dominik’s gangster tragicomedy, Killing Them Softly is as powerful as anything in...
Since 1992, the United Nations has dedicated December 3 of each year to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a date devoted to “mobilizing support for the dignity, rights and...
Let's face it: Christmas wouldn't be complete without holiday movies. We already know that the holiday season is all about family, loved ones, good food and presents. But it's also worth getting...
In Changing the Game, a documentary directed by Michael Barnett, we meet Mack, Sarah and Andraya, teenagers who are excelling at the sports they love. They train and compete and train and compete...
