Category: Features

Like so many contemporary R&B fans, I was gutted when it was reported that Michael Eugene Archer, better known as…

Who hasn’t at least once fantasized about switching lives with someone who, from a distance, seems to have a more…

When we look back at John Cusack’s expressive and bruised-heart romantic Rob Gordon in “High Fidelity” a quarter-century after the…

As idealistic as he was photogenic–my favorite Letterboxd comment in the wake of Robert Redford’s Sept. 16 death was “r.i.p…

Last week, ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s nighttime show indefinitely, just weeks after CBS announced the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show.…

A titan passed this week with the death of Robert Redford. An actor, director, activist, and mentor, he was as…

The following is a conversation between Robert Daniels and Odie Henderson conducted over email about Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest,”…

In 1975, Indian cinema released one of its greatest films, Ramesh Sippy’s “Sholay.” For this young grade-schooler, watching it with…

It’s always surprising what films sneak up on you at a film festival. Of the three films I wrote about…

There’s something about Norman Jewison’s 1985 film “Agnes of God,” which just turned 40, that sinks deep into my bones.…