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During one of the funnier sequences in Stephen Moyer’s feature directorial debut, “The Parting Glass,” a bemused yet grief-stricken man, Danny (Denis O’Hare), regards the predicament that has befallen his immediate family. He quips that they...

It is true that “Silent Hill” had fans and defenders when it came out (including one Brian Tallerico—his quote is on the DVD box I bought at Newbury Comics in 2010) but I’ve still felt alone in...

There is a subway train in the Zurich airport that has occupied my imagination ever since I first stepped foot in it 11 years ago. I was among a group of film students who paid to...

When Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie was preparing to tackle a daunting role in Robert Sarkies’ 2014 drama, “Consent: The Louise Nicholas Story,” her parents decided to show her a film that they thought would prove to be...

Oscar-nominated director Stephen Frears (“Dangerous Liaisons,” “The Queen”) does his best work in over a decade, but it’s not for a film opening in theaters today. It’s in his directorial work on the three-part, roughly three-hour...

At its best, “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” reminds one of the work of Michael Mann, stories of macho men so released of restrictions on their behavior that they blur the line between good and evil....

Debra Granik’s 2010 “Winter’s Bone” was a bleak, powerful film, introducing Jennifer Lawrence to a wide audience in her self-assured performance as a 17-year-old girl trying to keep her family together in the economically devastated Ozarks....

American writer Harlan Ellison is dead at the age of 84. The Los Angeles resident and former lord of the architectural marvel known as the Lost Aztec Temple of Mars did not pass on, nor is he...

The unique comedy series “GLOW,” returning for its second season tomorrow, June 29th, feels smarter, timelier and more confident than it did in its first year. The idea that a show about female wrestlers in the ‘80s...

“I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don’t get the ticket for Easy Street.” This is what writer/director Debra Granik tells me one afternoon in New...