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Month: November 2025
November 29, 2025
Afternoons of Solitude, Cahiers du cinéma, Entertainment, Film, News, Nouvelle Vague, One Battle After Another, TV show
Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2025 Includes Afternoons of Solitude, One Battle After Another, and Nouvelle Vague
I blinked once and it was time for end-of-2025 lists. Few things herald the onslaught quite so seriously as Cahiers…
November 29, 2025
Entertainment, Film, News, TV show
NYC Weekend Watch: Abel Ferrara’s Cat Chaser
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaOur presentation of the uber-rare director’s cut of Abel…
November 27, 2025
Entertainment, Film, News, TV show, TV/Streaming
“Stranger Things” Sets Up Its Endgame with Quartet of New Episodes
There’s a bit of irony in the fact that the first stretch of the fifth and final season of Netflix’s…
November 27, 2025
Entertainment, Festivals & Awards, Film, News, TV show
Reflections on the 2025 Tailinn Black Nights Film Festival
In November, the time change hits hard, not just in places that observe Daylight Saving Time. The darkness seems to…
November 27, 2025
DVD/Blu-Ray, Entertainment, Film, News, TV show
Home Entertainment Guide November 2025: “Familiar Touch,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Splitsville”
While this column focuses on physical media with an appetizer of Netflix options, it’s worth noting that one of the…
November 27, 2025
Entertainment, Festivals, Film, Middletown, News, Reviews, Sundance 2025, TV show
Teenage Wasteland Review: A High School Class That Held Up Truth to Power
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage under the title Middletown. Teenage Wasteland opens…
November 26, 2025
Entertainment, Film, News, Roger Ebert, TV show
Actors Superbly Channel Siskel and Ebert Onstage in Chicago
A year-long wish of mine was granted this past weekend, and in the most thrilling of ways. Throughout the month…
November 26, 2025
Entertainment, Features, Festivals & Awards, Film, News, TV show
No Good Deed Will Go Unpunished: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura on “The Secret Agent”
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura have known each other for over twenty years. But until now they haven’t made…
November 26, 2025
Entertainment, Film, News, TV show, Video Games
“Dispatch” is a Superhero Drama Equally Mighty and Emotional
You’ve probably heard the term “superhero fatigue” everywhere, with people getting sick of media showing supernatural beings saving the day.…
November 26, 2025
Entertainment, Film, News, Tributes, TV show
Swan Song: Udo Kier (1944-2025)
“Beware!” Udo Kier shouts at Madonna in German from behind the camera in the opening seconds of her music video…