Some of you know that movies about celebrities/artists who are still alive and/or who left lots of audio-visual documentation of their...

What if you could realize your heart's desire? No limits. You'd have everything you ever wanted... but it'll cost you.  The price? Your...

With the Golden Globes nominations set to be announced Monday, December 9, I thought I'd stick my prognosticating neck out and make a few...

I wish I had seen this movie on the big screen, but it only played for about a week in theaters. Here 's the film that should have...

Nickels and quarters and dime, oh my! Record receipts not just once, but twice? Longer and bigger and more CGI! I can't help but wonder:...

Woody Allen lives! Well, sort of. Just when I thought Allen's quintessentially morose, if arguably loveable, neurotic putz might fade...

Since the late 18th century, a network of "asylums" for fallen or penitent women was run by Ireland's Magdalene sisters. Later known as...

About thirty minutes into Anora , my husband leaned over and whispered, " This is the movie that won the Palme d'Or (at this year's...

The first time I visited Spain, I remember walking into the magnificent Cathedral of Toledo and suddenly being overwhelmed with emotion....

Years ago, when I was beginning to decide the topic for my doctoral dissertation in American Social History and Policy (heavy emphasis on...

Director Francis Ford Coppola could never be accused of being subtle. His grand, romantic vision of the world can be experienced through...

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman....

I must admit I was never a huge fan of Tim Burton's original 1988 Goth comedy. Except for Michael Keaton's curmudgeonly irreverent title...

"Let's have a party." In a slow summer that has offered little cinematic fare to motivate me to get out of the house and into a theater,...

It probably sounded great on paper: sexy marketing director with a questionable past gets sexy assignment at NASA c1969 and falls in love...

NOTE: I'm deviating from my usual movies posts, partly because there are so few interesting films playing in local theaters at the...

Writer-Director Richard Linklater had me at "hello" almost thirty years ago with Before Sunrise, his affecting 1995 mash-up I refer to as...

Welcome to MJ's Annual Oscar Picks: The 2024 Barbenheimer edition. Please begin by clicking on the link and feel welcome to sing along....

Note: This movie is German with English subtitles. I got a lot of good eye exercise watching Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, the...

If anyone would have told me six years ago that I'd be writing an impassioned essay about how Greta Gerwig was wronged by the Motion...