Seen on a good 70mm print at the Paris.   Not long after I moved to NYC In the 1980s, I saw this at a New York repertory house, and it’s another of those films I’ve long yearned to rewatch as more of ...

Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”

What a great great great movie.  It’s this weird thing, Godspell, and an even weirder thing, in a good weird kind of way, this documentary about the musical’s 1972 Toronto production. In retrospect, w...

A great documentary about making movies, and a perfect lighter side filmed companion to the dark side classic Steven Bach book Final Cut. John Boorman, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher and several below t...

Not as good as I’d have wished. Even if it’s Coyote from the Looney Tunes suing Acme over their defective products, if you’re going to do a courtroom drama you’ve really got to lean into the courtroom...

A definite for my Ten Best of 2026 list. Also, whether it knows it or not, it’s a shameless remake of The Muppet Movie. Kermit leaves swamp to find fame and fortune in Hollywood. Tommy Fred Chad aka A...

It’s both perfectly appropriate and somewhat disappointing that a movie with entitled It Ends doesn’t stick the landing, which is the ultimate reason why I’ve ranked at a 4* instead of 4 1/2*.  And ei...

Having started out as an actor, he was able to coax sensitive work out of performers like Bette Midler, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and John Wayne.

It’s a movie that doesn’t need to exist. The addiction/drugs/rehab thing has been around the block plenty, probably long before Midnight Cowboy and even if only for the fifty or sixty years since… And...

There are two ways to enjoy the movie for two hours  Watch the opening several minutes before the title card over and over, and admire the energy and audacity and color and beat and drive and ambition...

A thoroughly entertaining movie, and yet the story of the script revisions from Travis Braun winning the Black list for his script a couple years ago to finished movie with director Will Gluck giving ...

The eminent critic Harold Bloom called his 1981 book “Little, Big” a “neglected masterpiece” and one of the best novels of the 20th century.

With a superlative and star making performance by Dominic Sessa, Tony is just about the best not very interesting movie that a person could hope for.  Before I get to the Dominic Sessa part - why the ...

The highest rating I will give to a film I probably won’t see a second time, in a genre where I more often give a DNF.  Tom Holland is the best Spider- Man ever.  Like, I just don’t see this as a “the...

This has been on my “see again as adult” list for a while, another of those movies like Matewan that I hadn’t seen in decades after first seeing when I was, for practical purposes, a child.  I am glad...

He’s making head trips for the masses, and so every Nolan movie automatically qualifies as his new Ultimate Trip.

The historic Cinerama Dome in Hollywood will reopen under the ownership of Sony Pictures Entertainment and the operation of Alamo Drafthouse.

Donald Iwerks, the Disney camera technician and co-founder of Iwerks entertainment, died July 9. He was 96.

Clive Davis, the music mogul who founded Arista Records, discovered Whitney Houston and specialized resurrecting career, died June 22 in New York City at 94.

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For the last 46 years, it has been my privilege to work alongside countless talented artists and crews to create these characters, stories, and films for you all. I'm looking forward to seeing you at...

Every once in a while a director you don’t like manages to surprise you. Almost twenty years ago, John Carney’s Once put him on the radar.  A kind of mumblecore Irish music movie, which I found insuff...

If ever there’s a version of the movie that gets the run time under two hours, the star rating would double. There’s so much that’s fresh, fun, solid about the movie hiding amidst way too many cliches...

Somewhat of a slow burn, but ends up being in its own quiet way a movie that is no Whiplash, because there’s only one Whiplash, but which can be spoken of in the same breath or survive being on a doub...