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In the opening scene of Alex Lehmann’s buddy dramedy, “Paddleton,” the movie’s central characters are side-by-side, listening to the kind of news no one wants to hear from a doctor. Mike (Mark Duplass) may have cancer,...

Horror is in a creatively robust periods with films like “Hereditary” and “Get Out” crossing the line that separates genre and “serious fare” (for those who make such distinctions). The Midnight section at Sundance has been a bit...

America wasn’t created with the existence of the Black man in mind. All of that jazz about “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” protected the hopes and dreams of white men seeking freedom from their...

The anthems of Bruce Springsteen are the main inspiration behind “Blinded by the Light,” co-writer/director Gurinder Chadha’s coming-of-age story about a young man in 1987 Britain, whose life is changed once he starts listening to The...

A trio of bio-docs premiered at Sundance this year, detailing the stories behind three wildly different artists – David Crosby, Leonard Cohen, and Anton Yelchin. The varied approaches to their life stories make for an interesting...

Jay Singletary lives with ghosts. We catch glimpses of them here and there throughout “I Am The Night”, the Chris Pine-starring limited series from Sam Sheridan (the series writer) and Patty Jenkins (a producer, who also directed...

We were informed by the national digital broadcast network, START TV, that it was launched in September 2018 as a joint initiative of the CBS Station Group and Weigel Broadcasting. The network says it serves as a one–stop shop for...

It’s rather amazing how closely Richard Dreyfuss came to turning down his star-making role in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 masterpiece, “Jaws.” As detailed in Laurent Bouzereau’s essential documentary on the making of the film, Dreyfuss had just...

Dušan Makavejev was 83 when he finally succumbed to years of health problems at his home in Belgrade, Serbia. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Loach, Lindsay Anderson, Jacques Rivette, Miloš Forman, Chantal Akerman and other directors of his generation, he...

Among the standouts in this year’s World Dramatic Competition section at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, four remarkable films center on female leads that find themselves on high-stakes, life-altering (and in one case, life-or-death) crossroads. Set...