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Even if you know nothing of jazz or Oscar Peterson, the subject of Barry Avrich’s “Oscar Peterson: Black + White,” the new documentary will at least convince you that the pianist was an all-time great; a...

LOVE, that’s what it’s all about… On this Valentine’s Day, I am pleased to re-share “My Start Story,” an original campaign featured throughout the day on the national digital broadcast network, START TV, which showcases the stories...

2017’s “Horizon Zero Dawn” was a huge hit for Sony, one of the biggest new IPs in the gaming world of the 2010s, making a sequel inevitable. However, no one could have expected the sheer epic...

In sitting down to write a memorial tribute to a talent who has just passed, there is, I suppose, always the risk of overstating the importance and impact of the person being discussed. In the case...

Gentle and lilting, “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” moves at a hiker’s pace.  That’s literally the case in the film’s first act, a pilgrimage through the Bhutanese highlands that sees human populations dwindle as the...

What’s the difference between the new Jennifer Lopez rom-com “Marry Me” and a heart-shaped box of valentine chocolates? As Forrest Gump reminded us, in a box of chocolates you never know what you’re going to bite...

“Bel-Air,” the newest drama on the streaming service Peacock, has one of the most unusual origin stories in the history of television. Perhaps because of this odd history, it struggles to develop its own identity in...

Ruthless and precise, Steven Soderbergh’s “KIMI” is a timely commentary on isolation and intrusion. Anchored by a striking performance from Zoë Kravitz, it sees the expert craftsman working with genre again, like how he did in...

Throughout the more hopeful months of 2021, the programmers and staff of the Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) prepared for the jubilant return to an all in-person 51st festival, January 26 – February 6. Then, late...

A woman with a traumatic past, all alone in a house seemingly designed to amplify her anxieties and fears, beset by men who either don’t believe her or are dead-set on driving her mad? You’d be...