Good Movies 📽
It may seem odd for a newsletter that specializes in recommending movies on demand to devote a post to movies that you can’t get on demand, but it’s a slow January, I’ve got a little time before the Sundance Film Festival goes online on Thursday (the physical
Classics 🎞
Maya Cade's encyclopedia of African-American cinema is an invaluable resource
Weekly Digest
A legend leaves us, a cheeky Watergate comedy, and four good bets for weekend streaming
Good Movies 📽
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," a French foodie drama, and more come to VOD
Good Movies 📽
One from the vaults: A cheeky political comedy to cure the January blues
Remembrances ⭐️
The star who changed the movies and the role he had to play
Weekly Digest
Sea-eagles and schlock nostalgia and Peter Bogdanovich and Ben Affleck, character actor -- a busy week, and that's not even counting Sidney Poitier
Good Movies 📽
Is Ben Affleck a better supporting player than a star? "The Tender Bar" says yes. Plus "The 355."
Remembrances ⭐️
For many years, the narrative about Peter Bogdanovich was that he was a wunderkind who lost the knack. After the low-budget meta-monster movie “Targets” (1968), featuring Boris Karloff as a version of himself, Bogdanovich broke through in 1971, at 32, with “The Last Picture Show,” a black-and-
Classics 🎞
On "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium" and the cheesiness of memory. Plus: Criterion Channel must-sees.
Birds 🦉
On vagrancy and the stories we tell ourselves when we look at birds
Weekly Digest
Looking forward to 2022 and looking back at the best of 2021