Movie

I invite you to help me celebrate The HistoryMakers’ twentieth anniversary with twenty days and nights of panels, discussions and video performances and talks that span the gamut of the African-American experience from December 1st through December...

Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” casts a spell from its opening moments, a Terrence Malick-like evocation of human beings trying to stay in harmony with the natural world. As a family car travels through a green American landscape, the earth itself seems...

After the adrenaline shot that was “Chapter 14: The Tragedy,” “The Mandalorian” gets a little sidetracked in this season’s penultimate episode, “Chapter 15: The Believer.” If you’re looking for more Boba Fett action after his Robert...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Chef””E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial””Fruitvale Station””Jurassic Park””Loving””Monster House””Runaway Bride””Searching for Bobby Fischer””V For Vendetta””Whose Streets?” 9 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “The Dark and the Wicked” Bryan Bertino’s latest horror movie is one of the bleakest...

I first discovered the Mahoning Drive-In theater in the spring of 2016, just as a young filmmaker, Alexander Monnelli, began shooting a documentary about this most unlikely of businesses: A classic drive-in theater which, despite lagging...

“Now that I’ve met you, would you object to never seeing me again?” This heartbreaking line, lifted from Aimee Mann’s song, “Deathly,” is delivered by Claudia Wilson Gator (Melora Walters) to her date, officer Jim Kurring...

A dying man trudges across a dying planet in George Clooney’s ambitious sci-fi epic for Netflix, “The Midnight Sky.” Based on the book by Lily Brooks-Dalton, this is a piece that almost feels designed by a...

At first, the cheesy dialogue and ludicrous set-up of Amazon Prime’s “The Wilds” threw me for a loop. After all, this is a show with an elevator pitch that could basically be reduced to “Young Adult...

The inaugural New Works Virtual Festival, founded by actors Kevin Pollack with Bart Shatto and Jim Auld, kicked off on December 5th and is now running through Christmas Day. It features twenty plays performed online by acclaimed performers...

Annie Wilkes foretold the future. Rob Reiner’s 1990 thriller “Misery” finds Annie, the self-proclaimed “number one fan” of writer Paul Sheldon, holding him hostage in a snowy woodland cabin and forcing him to rewrite his latest...