Updated 2/24/2024

Back in January, I was interviewed by a French director for a documentary on the Fonda family. Word came recently that Les Fonda – Une...

Speaking of Beatles, here's a conversation I had with author Tim Riley (Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary) late last year about the Get...

My review of the new version of The Boys in the Band, with notes on the 1970 film, is up at Critics at Large.

My piece on Town Bloody Hall (1979), the Pennebaker-Hegedus documentary about a 1970 Women's Liberation panel starring Germaine Greer and...

This short musing on a virtually unknown film directed by Peter Fonda in 1973 is my contribution to the current year-long series running...

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a comic thriller, or thrilling comedy, retrieved from the volatile alchemy of "Drop Dead"-era New...

I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), which is coming out from The Criterion Collection, was an altogether not-bad movie, as I recall, whose...

The news that Peter Jackson will be assembling a new version of the Beatles' Get Back-Let It Be footage is interesting and exciting....

The third installment in my pre-Halloween series: Robert M. Coates, parallel reality, and the ghost story without ghosts.

The second of my pre-Halloween ghostlies at Critics at Large. This is about a talking mongoose, or a spirit weasel. It sounds funny. It...