Music 🎸
Tom Verlaine 1949-2023
One of rock's most mysterious figures drifts into the night.
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Weekly Digest
Watch List Weekly Recap 1/27/23
Sundance reports and musings on the latest Oscar nominations.
Festival Reports
Sundance 2023 Report, Part III
The fest's best documentaries: "20 Days in Mariupol," "Food and Country," "Kim's Video," and more.
Festival Reports
Sundance 2023 Report, Part II
The translucent "Past Lives" conquers Park City. Also: "You Hurt My Feelings," A Little Prayer," and "Cat Person"
Awards 🏆
Oscar Nominations 2023
Who's in, who's out, who got skunked, and why it matters.
Festival Reports
Sundance 2023 Report I
"Cassandro," "Eileen," "Little Richard": The best (so far) of a renewed, subdued festival.
Weekly Digest
Watch List Weekly Recap 1/20/23
A guide to making your TV settings safe for movies and a paean to an under-sung actress.
Good Movies 📽
What To Watch: The Passions of Anna (Kendrick)
"Alice, Darling" is a straight dramatic role for this gifted singer-actress. Also: "When You Finish Saving the World."
Motion Sickness
The "Soap Opera Effect" and how to get rid of it.
Weekly Digest
Watch List Weekly Recap 1/13/23
This week in the WL: The only good movies on Netflix (all 127 of them), plus a guide to new films in theaters and on demand.
Good Movies 📽
Saints, Sinners, Soldiers, and Slackers
What to watch this week: "Saint Omer," "All Quiet on the Western Front," and "The Art of Not Giving a F*ck."
Good Movies 📽
The 127 Good Movies on Netflix (2023 Edition)
By genre, with trailers.