A Fall From Grace
In short, it’s nuts.
Where's My Roy Cohn?
Worth seeing for the incisive witnesses the filmmaker has gathered to recount Cohn's life and speculate on what made him tick.
Downton Abbey
All's well that ends well, upstairs and down.
Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
A story about a boy, his grandparents, deafness, Beethoven, and life itself.
Strange But True
Solid performances and wry humor nearly save a thriller that puts its emphasis on the wrong things.
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
There was never anybody like Molly Ivins before, and never will be again, and this documentary does a fine job of capturing what made her special.
The Unloved, Part 69: Peterloo
Scout Tafoya celebrates Mike Leigh's Peterloo in his latest video essay about maligned masterpieces.
30 Minutes on "Not Fade Away"
The first theatrical feature film written and directed by David Chase, the creator of “The Sopranos,” this is an autobiographical tale about the formation of an artistic sensibility. John Magaro plays Doug Damiano, a northern New Jersey teenager whose father Pat (James Gandolfini) is a hot-tempered Archie Bunker-style reactionary who suffers from psoriasis, and whose mother Antoinette (Molly Price) is a depressive who regularly threatens to kill herself. The movie is narrated by Doug’s sister Evelyn, played by Meg Guzulescu, in the manner of a third-person novel, packing a television season’s worth of incident into an hour and 50 minutes yet somehow never feeling rushed.
Alone in the Dark: Sady Doyle on Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
An interview with author Sady Doyle.
Friedkin Uncut
Superficial in some ways, deeply insightful in others, this is still a must-see for cinephiles.
30 Minutes on "The Post"
Underrated in the manner of so many Steven Spielberg historical dramas, “The Post” is a journalism thriller that doubles as a stealth portrait of the media’s responsibility in the age of Trump.
