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We’re all stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we’re all looking for something to watch. There are new movies that were just in now-closed theaters already hitting VOD. There are literally thousands of options...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, between exercising my dogs (because Canine Coronavirus disease in dogs isn’t the same as SARS-CoV-2 that causes the novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 and “there is no evidence at this point to indicate that pets become...

The most unique feature of Netflix’s teen knight series “The Letter for the King” might be its proper nouns: Tiuri; Dagonaut; Ardanwen; Unauwen; Lavinia; Evellian, etc. These are the names and places from a world originally...

One of the big premieres at the festival was Khalik Allah’s latest feature “IWOW: I Walk On Water,” a 200-minute self-portrait that lays bare his filmmaking process, his relationships with friends and family and ex-girlfriends and...

It’s interesting to consider how the TIFF Midnight Audience Award winner “The Platform” would have tracked a decade ago. It would have had a limited theatrical release, gaining a cult following in midnight screenings around the...

At any film festival, it’s natural for connections between different works to arise. Certain ideas inevitably echo across films with different styles, and then, suddenly, hypothetical double features organically develop in your head. I saw two...

4 NEW TO NETFLIX “2012””The Assignment””Silver Linings Playbook””Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” 7 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “Bamboozled” (Criterion) Spike Lee says in his interview with Ashley Clark on the new Criterion edition of “Bamboozled” that he was...

Yesterday, I wrote a piece on six good-to-great documentaries that were set to premiere at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival before it was canceled because of COVID-19. We hope that these films find a new platform...

When this year’s SXSW Film Festival was canceled, it sent shockwaves through an already-fragile industry. It was really just the beginning. Since the cancellation, theaters around the country have been closed and other festivals have been...

With everyone contained at home for the foreseeable future, we asked our staff to offer suggestions as to what to watch in these unpredictable times. Print it out, put it on the wall, and mark them...