arts and entertainment
Cannes 2021: The best lack conviction, the worst filled with passionate intensity
July 12, 2021This year the entire festival bureaucracy has moved online, which caused much initial chaos.
Read more‘Altitude Not Attitude’: A freewheeling, wheelchair bound-for-glory story on film
June 11, 2021For the first time since the COVID lockdown began, after about 15 months of streaming cinema online, your peripatetic film critic finally attended his first screening in person.
Read moreMasterpiece cinema: BFI Player Classics streams 200-plus British movies
May 17, 2021The British Film Institute has launched a subscription video on-demand collection of more than 200 of the top U.K. movies for buffs across the pond in the colonies.
Read more‘Coastal Elites’: Diary of the Plague Year
April 5, 2021It's the first excellent film that speaks to what we have been through as a society during the pandemic.
Read more‘Marble-ous’: Russian maestro’s masterful Michelangelo biopic
February 9, 2021Michelangelo Buonarroti, that incomparable Renaissance Man, is masterfully brought back to life by movie maestro co-writer/director Andrei Konchalovsky in Sin (Il Peccato).
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