The villain as virus in "No Country for Old Men": You can't stop what's coming
Starring Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Tess Harper and Garret Dillahunt. Written and...
A salute to Cannes and romantic rapture with “In the Mood for Love”
Starring Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung and Rebecca Pan. Written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. Streaming on The Criterion Channel. 99 minutes....
A coronavirus cough gives Oscar the chills
We’re all familiar with the cautionary adage about not giving an inch to a slippery person or group, lest they respond by taking a mile....
With cinemas shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic, there is light at the end of the projection tunn
Like many people during these locked-down days, I’ve been having anxiety dreams — more like nightmares — that interrupt my sleep. They...
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" lets you have your cake and watch it, too
The Grand Budapest Hotel Starring Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, F. Murray Abraham, Jude Law,...
"Blade Runner" is a beautiful dystopian nightmare
Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, Joanna Cassidy, Joe Turkel. Written...
"Apocalypse Now" and the stark splendour of "the horror, the horror"
Starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Lawrence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Fred Forrest Lance, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall,...
Triumphant movies for these troubled times
"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (Twentieth Century Fox) On that awful day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, when we were all...
"2001: A Space Odyssey" is still the ultimate trip, out there and in the mind
Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Douglas Rain, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty,...