Posted on January 6, 2021 at 4:43 pm
The Critics Choice Awards are my favorite awards show, and not just because I get to vote and sometimes attend! It is because it is the only awards show where the choices are made by the professionals who see just about everything and report our reactions to readers. We aren’t part of the industry like …
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Posted on January 1, 2021 at 8:00 am
Happy new year! I wish all of you a year of health, happiness, and maybe some un-socially distant activities like going to the theater and giving some hugs. 2021 looks like a good year for movies, even at home. Right now, the Warner Brothers movies originally scheduled for theaters are going to be released streaming …
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Posted on December 31, 2020 at 10:00 am
Happy New Year! Wishing you and your families a happy and healthy and less stressful 2021. If you’re home tonight, try one of these: Garry Marshall’s “New Year’s Eve” shows us a variety of happy, poignant, and romantic encounters on the night of December 31. “When Harry Met Sally” has a memorable New Year’s Eve …
Posted on December 30, 2020 at 10:28 pm
We are living in the golden age of documentaries, each year better than the one before. While print and broadcast media are struggling to keep their audiences, too often by becoming shrill and blurring the line between news and commentary, documentaries are becoming a powerful force for journalism, vivid, revealing, and letting us see and …
Posted on December 30, 2020 at 5:44 pm
Well, it’s been a year. Who could have imagined we’d be watching all the new movies at home this year? That there would have been so many delays? And so much more? But there have been some silver linings in the clouds of 2020, even when it comes to movies. One has been the democratizing …
