Vittorio De Sica. Mario Monicelli. Francesco Rosi. Federico Fellini. Michelangelo Antonioni. Luchino Visconti. These are the biggest names in directing from Italian cinema during a golden era from 1945 to the 1960s...

Welcome to the New Year! Off the bat, four new entries for the Criterion Collection plus a trilogy of reissues for the start of one of cinema’s most ingenious, yet controversial directors....

Director: Ruben Östlund Writer: Ruben Östlund Stars: Thobias Thorwid, Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean Synopsis: A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island. A young modeling...

Director: Stephen Frears Writers: Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope Stars: Sally Hawkins, Shonagh Price, and Helen Katamba Synopsis: An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for...

Director: Luca Guadagnino Writer: David Kajdanich Stars: Timothee Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance Synopsis: Maren, a young woman, learns how to survive on the margins of society. After a teenager gets her finger bitten off because of the cinnamon nail...

I’ve never believed in cancel culture because it doesn’t exist. You cannot erase a person’s work and you can admire someone’s art while acknowledging their troublesome past. Roman Polanski, Harvey Weinstein, Ezra...

While watching some films on the Criterion Channel starring David Gulipuli, I started looking up these types of movies set in the Outback, aka “the bush.” It is Australia’s own piece of...

This is not a sick fetish of mine naming cemeteries for the great dead. It’s just history. Apologies for doing the third article of this.  Established in the early 19th century, Campo Verano...