Music 🎸
What Was Your First Album?
On the vanished joys of music ownership. Plus: "Rothaniel" on HBO Max and J.M.W. Turner on the walls and onscreen.
Ty Burr
Awards 🏆
Not Your Grammy's Grammys
See? Awards shows can work. Also: some last thoughts (I promise) on The Slap
Weekly Digest
Watch List Weekly Recap 4/1/22
Dissecting a deranged Oscars; Two new Netflix films, one great and the other one... not.
Good Movies 📽
What to Watch This Weekend: "Apollo 10 1/2"
Plus: Another, not-so-nice Netflix Original, "The Bubble"
Awards 🏆
Oscars 2022: Your Hit Parade
The acceptance speeches were the best part of a bizarre and unseemly evening.
Weekly Digest
Watch List Weekly Recap 3/25/22
Time-traveling husbands, universe-hopping heroines, and Oscar predictions -- it's been a busy week.
Good Movies 📽
New Release Friday: "Everything Everywhere All at Once"/"The Lost City"
One zings, the other doesn't.
Awards 🏆
Oscar Predictions (and Assorted Grumblings) 2022 Edition
Is "The Power of the Dog" a sure thing for Best Picture? Don't bet on it.
Podcast
The Watchcast: "The Time Traveler's Wife"
In which Ty and Meredith plumb the mysteries and pleasurable idiocies of the "magic romance" sub-genre.
Weekly Digest
Watch List Weekly Recap 3/18/22
A great actor passes away, a great movie turns 50, and three intriguing new releases arrive in theaters and on TV.
Good Movies 📽
New Release Friday: "Turning Red," "The Outfit," & "Master"
Pixar strikes again, Mark Rylance rules, and Regina Hall takes on white academia.
Classics 🎞
Heavenly "'Father"
The greatest American movie (discuss) turns 50 this week.