Welp, you've seen the other three posts about my constant discoveries and - humble brag alert - I got a Charter Subscriber card for signing up upon opening. Nothing too special, but...

It is the 40th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic, Apocalypse Now, which won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or despite being not completely finished. It had already gained infamy before due...

Towards the end of summer is the next major international film festival that also tingles our Oscar sensibilities, the Venice International Film Festival. It started in 1932 from the idea of three...

Actors want to be directors. Clint Eastwood decided to make his own movies because he was tired of the lack of organization and the length of time a director took for one...

Now, we're in the thick of summer, and in between my other writing, job hunting, a wedding, doctors, and reading up world history (Roy Jenkins' biography on Winston Churchill), I get my...

In recent years, we have fallen in love with the performances by children in Room, The Florida Project, Lion, Moonlight, and on the TV series Stranger Things. We've plucked out great performances from children throughout the decades...

While Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, and Vittorio De Seca are the first names peoples think of in Italian cinema, another director is a major influence, presenting a more open narrative where we...

The Criterion Collection is not just old films or foreign films. They are also about preserving the new ones, films that don't get the extensive exposure right after its release. They are...