Michael Mann Returns to Television with HBO MAX’s Tokyo Vice
It’s been seven full years since the great Michael Mann directed the sadly overlooked technothriller Blackhat in 2015. While Mann...
A Darker Knight
Detective Comics. That’s what the comic book series was called when Batman was introduced in issue 27, way back in...
By the Light of the Silvery Moon Knight
I grew up on Moon Knight comics. In fact, I have a Moon Knight bust on my work desk next...
Reframe: Children of a Lesser God
On the surface, Children of a Lesser God may look like a romantic drama about communication, and while it is that, it’s...
Nextflix’s ‘The Andy Warhol Diaries’ Attempts to Unravel its Enigmatic Subject
I’ll watch just about anything about Andy Warhol. I’m all in on The Factory days, his groundbreaking artistic vision, the...
The Overlooked Legacy of William Hurt
For about eleven years, William Hurt may have been the greatest actor on earth. Beginning in 1980 with Ken Russell's...
Director Barry Avrich on Revealing the Uncomplicated Genius of Oscar Peterson in ‘Oscar Peterson: Black + White’
When extraordinarily prolific filmmaker Barry Avrich (seriously, check his IMDB) turned his attention to the story of one of the...
Director Josef Kubota Wladyka and Independent Spirit Award Nominee Kali Reis on Co-creating ‘Catch The Fair One’
When filmmaker Josef Kubota Wladyka discovered his lead actor for Catch The Fair One, he did not find her in...
Alex Garland Returns to the Big Screen with ‘Men’ Starring Jessie Buckley: Watch the Trailer
After taking a side-trip into television with the excellent FX limited series Devs, the writer and director of sci-fi standouts...
Monica Vitti and the Eclipse
More years ago than I care to count, I rented L’Eclisse from an artsy video store called Morris Classics (since...
The Buzzmeter: Is Nolan’s Odyssey Peak Woke or Is the Outrage Overblown?
When the rumor swirled that Lupita Nyong'o had been cast as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan's epic, The Odyssey,...
