One Of The Greats!
How do you introduce someone like Meryl Streep? Where do you start and how can you stop? I’ll start by saying this, we have a Streep ...
How Great is Cate? We Find out as we dig Into her Unseen Filmography!
One of the most wonderful parts of film consumption is discovering new favorites,...
From one Catwoman to the next!
When I selected Halle Berry as our April Film Admissions actress, I didn’t consider the feline DNA she shares our March s...
True confession time: I have always had an enormous crush on Michelle Pfeiffer. Sure, a lot of that has to do with physical attractiveness- she is one of the most beautiful people alive. But so much of it stems from her presence on-screen, the way she brings- not a vulnerability per se, but more like a raw, exposed nerve to her performances. It was these qualities that were apparent, even when she was first slowly breaking into features in the early 1980’s.
It's a Jarmusch-y World; We're Just Living in it.
When someone asks me who some of my favorite directors are, I forget to include Jim Jarmusch. What, I ask, i...
Halloween's own Prince of Darkness
Of course we all know John Carpenter. Starting with Halloween, his movies have never just been The Fog, or Christine, or In ...
Catching up With the Dancing Director's Musical and Not-so-Musical Major Career
Photo by: Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection
When you talk about St...
The Cinema Auteur of India Rewards Discovery
The word “humanist” gets thrown around a lot in cinema discourse. Used to describe filmmakers with compassionate w...
Our Summer with Ingmar, at 100
Confession: I had intended to write a long piece this July observing the 100th anniversary of the birth of Swedish film dire...