By Michael J. Casey - March 27,2024

The misanthrope

Midway through his life, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) looks around and sees nothing he likes. Originally from Istanbul, he obliges his mandatory teaching service in this remote village of perpetual winter...

By Michael J. Casey - March 19,2024

Toy story

Alejandro dreams of toys. Not crazy, outrageous toys or toys that bring excitement and pleasure, but pensive, melancholy toys reminding kids that time is finite and our actions meaningless. There’s...

By Michael J. Casey - March 12,2024

Blood simple

It started as love but it ended with a body in the desert. Sometimes, that’s how these things go. But one look at the small New Mexico town where Loves...

By Gregory Wakeman - March 6,2024

Space is the place

When renowned documentarian and filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite was initially approached about directing the sci-thriller I.S.S., she didn’t know anything about the International Space Station. But that’s exactly what attracted her...

By Michael J. Casey - March 6,2024

Stillness is a move

She makes the bed. She peels and boils the potatoes. She prepares the coffee and drinks milk. She cleans the small apartment she shares with her son. She takes a...

By Michael J. Casey - February 28,2024

Spice world

You know he’s the one because he’s a movie star with piercing eyes, floppy hair, goth vulnerability and untapped strength all in one. He’s Prince Hal making good. His name...

By John Lehndorff - February 20,2024

Watching what we eat

The first time I noticed food on the movie screen was probably the spaghetti-stand kiss in The Lady and the Tramp. Once I started paying attention to cinema, it seemed...

By Michael J. Casey - February 7,2024

Hollywood gate crashers

They play together and laugh, eat meals, discuss school and tend to the garden. They’re just like other families, except for one crucial detail: When it’s time to go to...

By Michael J. Casey - January 16,2024

Bestselling book, midlevel movie

It’s not about race; it’s about caste — the system of injustice and subjugation that persists, generation from generation, resistant to the individuals who work to defy and shatter it....

By Michael J. Casey - January 3,2024

Straight, no chaser

Some people bite the hand that feeds them. American Fiction’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison wants to chew it whole and spit it back out. Before we get there, first this: American...

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