Margaret Qualley (L) and Ethan Hawke (R) in Richard Linklater's Blue Moon. On a dark and rainy night in November 1943, a drunken Lorenz "Larry" Hart (Ethan Hawke) stumbles down a NYC alley, incoherently mumbling song lyrics before collapsing on the street. As he lies alone shivering in the cold, a message appears on the screen, informing us that Hart died several days later from complications of pneumonia. But was it just pneumonia, or did other demons contribute to Larry's d

[Mary Shelley] has remained a figure as important in my life as if it was family... She gave voice to the voiceless and presence to the invisible, and she showed me that sometimes to talk about monsters we need to fabricate one of our own... and parables do that for us. -Guillermo del Toro, 2018 BAFTA's This is the movie. The one I wait for every year. The film that reminds me why I love cinema, and why movies matter. In a word, Guillermo del Toro's long-await

Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in Scott Cooper's Springsteen / Deliver Me From Nowhere. NOTE : I have been a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen for fifty years now, ever since he graced the covers of both Time and Newsweek in the same week: October 27, 1975. His music has underscored - and sometimes, paralleled - key moments in my own life, songs that continue to evoke memories joyful and sad, pensive and painful, triumphant and mournful. Being a fan is both a blessing an

NOTE: This review may contain spoilers and profanity. I once had a friend (notice the verb tense) who asked me if I knew what I was going to see when I went to a movie. When I replied that I actually read preview notices and reviews, he just shrugged and said that, whenever the spirit moved him to go to the theater, he just showed up and bought a ticket for whatever feature was playing next. I can only imagine his face if I told him I went knowingly and willingly to see a Jul