In Kent Jones new film “Late Fame,” Willem Dafoe plays Ed Saxberger, a seemingly “regular guy” type who works for the Post Office by day, and shoots pool with his...

In Joe Swanberg’s new film “The Sun Never Sets,” Wendy and Jack have been happily dating for the past two years. Wendy is a wonderful stepmom to Jack’s two elementary-aged...

In the outer reaches of Oklahoma, Amziah King is a well-known local beekeeper, part-time musician, and one of the most popular guys in town. Born and raised in the area,...

Coming just two years after his Oscar-winning “Oppenheimer,” director Christopher Nolan has seemingly bitten off more than he can chew with a grand-scale IMAX interpretation of Homer’s classic Greek epic...

Much of Steven Spielberg’s work – that is, the non-historical dramas – can be divided into two categories. He specializes in sentimentality (think “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” or “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”),...

The June 6, 1944, Allied invasion of Normandy, France was the largest invasion in world history. It changed the course of WWII, and the course of history. Hollywood has chronicled...

Save for 2024’s Bob Dylan film “A Complete Unknown,” most recent biopics have fallen into the trap of what I call “Checklist Biographies” – in which the filmmakers simply check...

I’ve always been what some call a “music person.” I took piano lessons for many years, I played trumpet in high school, and have sung in my church choir since...

Matthew Shear’s first directorial effort, “Fantasy Life,” is a pleasing slice-of-life dramedy in which he plays Sam, an unemployed thirty-something simply trying to find some direction in his life. Through...

Film Review - Project Hail Mary Dr. Ryland Grace is a molecular biologist who published a theory since disproven by the wider scientific community. In his retreat from public life,...