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By | November 2014
For the first hour, the film is utterly fascinating…
London’s National Gallery is the focus of the latest film from legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. And for three hours, the viewer gets to...
The opening scene of Pier Luigi Pizzi’s Sferisterio Opera Festival production of "Don Giovanni" is barely two minutes old before the viewer immediately...
To properly appreciate this touching and illuminating account of the thirty year marriage between Stephen and Jane Hawking, it’s helpful to bear in mind...
Digital Celluloid, a comic strip by artist Chris Cirillo, pokes fun at the films of today, tomorrow and yesterday. Whether it is a classic or an upcoming...
Alternate programming for those who don't like parades and/or football has long been a staple of the cable industry, and in the early 90s, the show...
Welcome to Going Bionic #242. Today we’re feasting on The Hunger Games ”Mockingjay, Part 1” and how its immense international appeal just trumped...
If "The Wind Rises" is indeed Hayao Miyazaki's final film (and it seems that way), then it might be the perfect note on which to end his career. It's a...
This is a movie about jazz for people who know fairly little about jazz. The less one knows about the history of the form, drumming, playing in a band or...
This review was originally published on January 17, 2014... When the Little Hope Baptist Church burned to the ground in East Texas, it rightly caused...
While most Americans consider Johnny Carson to be the gold standard for television talk show hosts, my personal favorite was Merv Griffin. Whereas Carson...
