I hesitated to see this film – the trailer showed robot children. But I trust Kore-eda, maker of Shoplifters (story of a makeshift family s...

I discovered the novels of John Crowley, starting with   Ægypt , probably 30 years ago. Once I read Little, Big , it became my all-time fav...

This excellent 2001 memoir chronicles the author’s years as a rancher in South Dakota, restoring a badly-degraded grassland ecosystem into p...

I was fortunate to attend this year’s 40th Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna – so many films (over 400!), screened in 6 theaters and 2 piazzas....

This 2026 film starring Ian McKellan and Michaela Coel examines art, fame, legacy and greed in an insightful way. McKellan plays Julian Skla...

 

A brief intro: this film uses a story much like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to examine what happens to people when they move beyond t...