Tag: entertainment
At The Movies
Every year during Oscar season, Academy voters come up with a winning list of five films for the Best Feature Documentary category. Since this...
Spanish Film Icon Comes up with Another Winner
Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodovar continues to amaze with his latest effort, “Parallel Mothers,” a touching and brilliantly realized film that brings him back to...
At the Movies: Two Major Directors’ Latest:
“The French Dispatch”
From director Wes Anderson comes his 10th feature, “The French Dispatch,” which he has described as “a love letter to journalists set...
Second Look: An Annual Survey of Overlooked Films
With this annual column, I again nominate several “Movies That Got Away,” feature films (from 2020) less noticed or hyped upon release. This selection...
Films both Current and Historic
Storm Lake
Here’s a paean to journalism, old style. It’s also a near obituary for shoe leather journalism as it was practiced, especially in America’s...
People on the Brink: At The Movies
East of the Mountains
This is a film as character study. An older man at an end-of-life crossroads contemplates his own demise in a world...
At the Movies
Supernova
An up-close-and-personal examination of dementia may not be everyone’s idea of a fun movie, but the new film “Supernova,” written and directed by Harry...
At The Movies
Flannery
For a writer now so critically acclaimed, novelist and short story writer Flannery O’Connor (1924-1964) has never been the subject of a major film...
The Magic Flute
This great adventure starts with an unexpected pair: Tamino, a handsome young prince and Papageno, his silly bird-catcher sidekick. When the mysterious Queen of...
Culturfied Festival
On Oct. 14, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Ronald Reagan Building &International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, over 30 embassies will showcase...
