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Ever since I encouraged you to e-mail us at [email protected] and tell us about a movie, TV show, book, play, song, recipe, remembrance, person, dream or life experience that takes you to your Happy Place, I have received so many wonderful...

The inaugural New Works Virtual Festival, founded by actors Kevin Pollack with Bart Shatto and Jim Auld, will feature twenty plays performed online by acclaimed performers and artists. Originally scheduled for this month, the festival has been...

Neither humans nor demons have much of a personality in Hulu’s “Helstrom,” one of the final series developed by Marvel Television after Marvel Studios’ restructuring folded the production company in December 2019. Now lacking a “Marvel...

For 14 years, “The West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin has labored to make his current film, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” about the seven famed antiwar activists charged with inciting a riot at the 1968...

Rachel Talalay got her start working for John Waters, directed seven episodes of “Doctor Who,” and is the only woman to direct a “Nightmare on Elm Street” film (“Freddy’s Dead”). All she knows about strange and...

The simple, yet complicated fact that the pandemic isn’t over would have shocked anyone during March. But in the months since Covid-19 caused statewide lockdowns, the road to recovery appears endless. Trying to create art reflective of...

Sunita Mani stars in “Evil Eye” as Pallavi, a 29-year-old woman in New Orleans who is constantly hearing from her mother in Delhi (Sarita Choudhury’s Usha) about how she should be married. All of this pressure, with many...

Zu Quirke’s “Nocturne,” released today in the “Welcome to the Blumhouse” anthology, echoes one of producer Jason Blum’s scariest but more unconventional projects—Damien Chazelle’s jazz thriller “Whiplash,” the movie that first put Blumhouse on the awards...

The 58th New York Film Festival is officially done. Circumstances beyond our control forced a fully virtual presentation peppered with public screenings at several drive-ins. I questioned the plausibility of arty showcases appearing at the outside venue...

During the New York Film Festival’s 58-year history, documentaries have never enjoyed the prominence of narrative auteur films, a secondary role reflected in their shifting place in the proceedings. In the early years, when the festival...