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Dedicated to our late longtime Scene editor and critic, our poll asks cinephiles, critics and industry insiders about 2021 in film

Flash forward to the present day, as the art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator, “content.” As recently as fifteen years ago, the term “content” was heard only when people were discussing the cinema on a serious level, and it was contrasted with and measured against “form.” Then, gradually, it was used more and more by the people who took over media companies, most of whom knew nothing about the history of th...

For Your Viewing Pleasure Featuring Classic Movies, Recent Hits, Full TV Seasons, and More Dec 23, 2020 By Mark Redfern and Austin Trunick Photography by Wendy Lynch Redfern If you were smart and careful, you spent much of 2020 indoors thanks to the deadly pandemic. With many movie theaters closed much of 2020, with bars and restaurants often unavailable, with live music an impossibility; we all turned to home entertainment and that often meant our screens. Netflix and other streaming ser...

For Your Viewing Pleasure Featuring Classic Movies, Recent Hits, Full TV Seasons, and More Dec 23, 2020 By Mark Redfern and Austin Trunick Photography by Wendy Lynch Redfern Holiday Gift Guide 2020 If you were smart and careful, you spent much of 2020 indoors thanks to the deadly pandemic. With many movie theaters closed much of 2020, with bars and restaurants often unavailable, with live music an impossibility; we all turned to home entertainment and that often meant our screens. Netfl...