The peripatetic German-born director Wim Wenders, now 78, has drawn nearly as much inspiration from Japan over his career as…
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The movie was “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” The theater was Century 12 Evanston. The man sitting behind…
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Rap music, hummingbirds, and AI—the focuses of Americans can be so vastly different. Some people are wrongfully incarcerated because of…
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Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military drama that takes heavy inspiration from “Top Gun:…
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It’s astonishing to realize that HBO’s hit sitcom “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has been on the air for a solid twenty-five…
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Perhaps it’s just luck of the draw in how my assignments fell out this year, but my Sundance was more…
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The festival is wrapping up, the final screenings are about to play this weekend, favorites are being shared, and the…
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The 2024 U.S. Dramatic Competition program at Sundance this year featured the expected variety of voices from the independent film…
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Music docs have become an increasingly prominent part of the Sundance landscape, but it truly felt like the programmers for…
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“American Star” is an art house variant of the familiar story of an old hitman facing his mortality while doing…
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