With the current abysmal streaming landscape where shows are thrown onto services to collect dust like old VHS tapes, it’s…
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In Berlin’s Main Competition and its Panorama section are three films centering mothers: the worries they have about their children,…
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Syria and Turkey, the Ivory Coast and China, Senegal, and a smidge of America are the countries these three films…
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Not every dispatch has a unifying theme; this one is more of a hodgepodge. Among the three films is the…
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Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba, who co-directed “They Shot the Piano Player,” first encountered the work of the film’s subject, Brazilian…
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My late husband Roger Ebert noted potential in Harold Ramis from the moment he awarded four stars to the first film that…
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Director Tom Hooper had just won an Oscar for “The King’s Speech” and now he had his sights set on…
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(Pictured: Portraits of Martin Scorsese at the Berlinale Palast. As filmmakers and cast members enter the theater for screenings, they…
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Everybody lies. Whether with malice, for self-preservation, or to spare another’s heart, fabrications lubricate or erode social interactions. But it’s…
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Did you know that in some alternative universe, there could’ve been a “King Kong” movie directed by none other than…
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