For everyone except Indigenous people, there’s an “old country.” And the generational differences of an Italian family who started from Calabria and settled in an icy Canadian village make for delightful disagreements in Dina Morrone’s comedy Moose on the Loose. The eponymous character (James Lemire), with antlers outrageously out to…

After the two-year delay of on-site screenings due to COVID-19, the Palm Springs International Film Festival returns to the Coachella Valley, featuring notable work from more than 60 countries. Including online and in-person screenings, here is an amalgam of cinematic artistry, both from the US and internationally. Bardo, False Confessions…

Despite an omnipresent Omnichron, to say nothing of Actors Equity rules making producing theatre prohibitively expensive, live stage, though there is decidedly less of it, still flourishes. …

1. Triangle of Sadness There’s a damn good reason writer-director Ruben Ostlund won the Palme D’or at Cannes with this surrealist tale of class warfare on a deserted island after a luxury yacht is sunk by pirates. Woody Harrelson comes out of nowhere as a drunken, incompetent captain and Dolly…

The latest iteration of the nation’s biggest documentary film festival ended Nov. 17 in New York theatres but provides 90 streaming options for US cinephiles through November 27. The bloc of music related fare at DOC NYC was quite strong this year, from the acclaimed in their industry to the…

On June 30 of this year, Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant completed his timeline of disastrous decisions, only exceeded by those of his supposedly close friend and teammate, Kyrie Irving. …

The sizable, viewer- and press-friendly and eclectically programmed Seattle International Film Festival, recently wrapped on April 24, can boast of many releases that have already been praised in this column. Foremost is the marvelous Javier Bardem starrer, The Good Boss, written and directed without a flaw by Spain’s Fernando León…

For the 39th incarnation of the Miami Film Festival, sponsor-producer Miami-Dade College assembled more than 60,000 filmgoers for presentations of Ibero-American cinema. Over the years, 75 countries have been honored by the Festival for stellar work. Javier Bardem, nominated as Academy Awards Best Actor for his portrayal of Desi Arnaz…

While the 2022 version of the Palm Springs International Film Festival was cancelled due to the resurgence of COVID-19, a few wise and enterprising filmmakers made their projects available online for press. …