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Yesterday, I attended a party for the 103rd Birthday of Catherine Stovall, whom I first wrote about when she turned 101. The article, entitled, “I Would Like to Introduce the 101-Year-Old Woman to the 102-Year-Old Man,” is...

Premiering today in full, “Paper Girls” only looks on the cover like Prime Video’s answer to “Stranger Things,” though that image could help it get the viewers it deserves. This is a surprising time travel coming-of-age...

“Vengeance” sounds like the title of an action thriller. There have been films with that name before. But although vengeance is discussed in “Vengeance”—the first feature from writer/director/star B.J. Novak, co-star and co-writer of the American...

In 2017, Quinn Shephard proved that she was a multifaceted threat as a filmmaker through her directorial debut feature “Blame”. At the age of 20, she used her college fund to produce, star, edit, and star...

A lot of work went into creating the technical aspects of “Thirteen Lives,” from Molly Hughes’ skillful recreation of the interiors of Thailand’s Tham Luang Nang Non cave to its two lead actors getting SCUBA-certified so...

Chicagoan and MacArthur Foundation Genius Fellow, Jacqueline Stewart, one of the world’s leading scholars, curators, and public educators on cinema, was recently appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures as the institution’s...

Netflix’s “Keep Breathing” can’t decide what type of show it wants to be. On its face, it’s a typical survival adventure, in which Melissa Barrera plays Liv, an unhappy lawyer who must fight to stay alive after...

“Living in the moment. The moment between past and present, the hammock in the middle of after and next. The moment. Treasure it. Use it with love.”—Norman Lear on the last day of his 99th year To...

In 2020, at the outset of the pandemic, director Joe Hunting turned to the VR world to compose an immersive documentary about the various communities, practicing inclusion and freedom, inhabiting a digital, yet no-less deeply felt...

Dating in middle age is hard enough for anyone; what Darren Star’s latest trifle, Netflix’s “Uncoupled,” argues is that it’s especially hard for gay men. After all, there are the higher expectations, the obsession with youth...