Monday

20-10-2025 Vol 19

Day: September 4, 2025

Peacock’s “The Paper” Shuffles “The Office”‘s Formula To A Funny, Worthy Spinoff

The new editor-in-chief of the Toledo Truth Teller is up against it. He is in charge of a Midwestern newspaper…

Venice Film Festival 2025: Remake, Nuestra Tierra, Kim Novak’s Vertigo

Venice had a remarkable non-fiction portion of its 2025 program, including new films by Werner Herzog and Laura Poitras (both…

Telluride Film Festival 2025: Lost in the Jungle, Ask E. Jean, Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher

Telluride Film Festival has become well known for programming Oscar-contending films. While most eyes are drawn to potential “Best Picture”…

Something Wretched This Way Comes in the Second Half of “Wednesday” Season Two

I remember, a mere month ago, when I surprised even myself by finding the first half of “Wednesday” season two…

Female Filmmakers in Focus: Sierra Falconer on “Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)”

Filmed on location in and around Green Lake, a remote lake in northern Michigan, “Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green…

Telluride Film Festival 2025: The Cycle of Love, H is for Hawk, La Grazia

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

Paul Thomas Anderson Selects Five Films to Watch Ahead of One Battle After Another as Tickets Go on Sale

We’re now just a few weeks away from the main event of the fall: the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s…

Realm of Satan Review: A Vivid Invitation into a World of Fantasies

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Sundance coverage. Realm of Satan is now avaiable digitally.…

Venice Review: Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante Crafts a Frenzied, Flimsy Adventure for Oscar Isaac and Martin Scorsese

“There is no reason why a kid from a family of gangsters couldn’t be the reincarnation of Dante Alighieri,” reads…

Venice Review: Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother is an Anthology of Late Style

Father Mother Sister Brother offers three movies for the price of one. The first is set on a frosty lakeside…