Captain Marvel is a film about histories, specifically secret ones — how they inform our present, and more importantly, how their absence detracts from our experience, reducing us to an ahistorical impulse....

Opinions are usually heavily researched, either subjectively through periods of intense mental argumentation, or objectively through factual analysis and synthesis. The strongest opinions overlay the rhetorical...

There are wintry days and windy nights, and then there’s Arctic, the new film directed by Joe Penna, starring Mads Mikkelson as a downed airman eeking out an existence in the Arctic Circle. Mikkelson’s...

I have said before, quoting Joseph Brodsky, that poetry is first and foremost a sentimental education. It shows us things outside our superficial or even analytical purview, elucidating subtle gestures...

I fail to remember every year that the best films rarely win Oscars. I am swept up in the momentum of projections, championing lesser-known films and acceding improper value to probable winners, and thus...

The India Pale Ale Movement, tidal force that it is, is a pansy farce.  Breweries remain effective for the end-of-week roundtable with friends, cornhole or colloquiums, where you can proffer your latest...

At Eternity’s Gate is a poor excuse for a biopic, and I must say: who cares? The right answer should be no one. The film’s loosely biographical context, that of the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh,...

Milan Kundera’s oft-quoted line from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting that “the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” seems especially poignant when accounting...

Think about the last date you were on — the slashing romanticism, the dive-bomb interest, the earnest conversation. In The Old Man & the Gun, the new film written and directed by David Lowery, Robert...

What’s the state of ATP Tennis? As the collection of consummate professionals, the historic, quad-threat generation that will walk to their apportioned seat in the tennis Hall of Fame, with all of the...

iGen or Gen Z (my generation) is bad at handling conflict, and the declensions are telling: the primacy of the first-person, proliferated by Apple products, and the terminal letter of the alphabet. Our...

One can picture King Lear dithering around the grounds, body and mind thinning into madness, control existing in the wispy tendrils of the fading monarch. He stomps around with cranky hopes of abdication,...