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“Movies for adults” are bombing because contemporary adults recognize and reject their clichés.
The practically magical life of a candlemaker.
A 2025 New Yorker interview with actor Tim Curry vs. a 2025 Kenan Arts interview with artist Esther Hernandez.
Shohei Ohtani’s baseball’s best player, but sportswriters embarrass themselves with fan worship.
George Orwell’s thinking, his words, deconstruct the narrative forced on him.
The remake makes the original look good.
Memories of a mid-1990s film shoot somewhere in California… and Arizona. || Bennington Quibbits
Downtown's violent Five Points past.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is an uninspired biopic with nothing new to say.
The films of Alejandro Amenábar, from The Others to Open Your Eyes and more.
Park Chan-wook’s acidic revenge thriller No Other Choice is one of the year’s funniest films.
Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein is an enjoyable take on well-trodden material.
A sad nightmare story.
Thoughts on freedom after a visit to France.
Mother Teresa with a Trust Fund?
Willem Dafoe’s a reclusive artist in a literary satire about the perception of artistry by different generations.
Candace Owens is Un-American.
By now, you should ask how to jettison both wings simultaneously.
Mark S. Sanders tells it like it is.
Plus, musings about the generations.
I found disinfectant spray and a bug zapping mini-tennis racquet.
We will fight our fellow Americans, both on the suburban highways and right downtown.
Left and right are lecturing the megastar.
The filmmaker returns to the scene of the crime in this new video recorded by the Criterion Collection.
The filmmaker talks about New York being on the avant garde of all that's good and bad in America and more in this 1979 interview.
The Smashing Pumpkins singer and songwriter predicts YouTube and the way the internet would develop in this July 7, 1994 interview.
The late actress and director talks about The First Wives Club and more in this 1997 interview with Terry Gross.
The Flemion Brothers perform one of their greatest songs in Milwaukee on March 31, 1994.
The group perform with Jim O'Rourke in Switzerland on July 7, 2000.
The actor talks about working with the Coen Brothers, death, and George Clooney.
The late actress talks about her relationship with Woody Allen, Annie Hall, and more in this 2010 interview.
The actor talks about getting older, Shameless, and his younger years as a relatively unknown actor.
The late actress talks about The Godfather and sings "There's a Lull in My Life" in this Tonight Show appearance aired on December 28, 1972.
The writer pans the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson.
