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Children, children! CHILDREN! That’s right – listen up, and gather ’round, I have a story to tell. ‘Twas the Winter of 2023 and 2024, and there was a burgeoning new it-boy in Hollywood. Tall enough...

BU Today’s suggestions of how to spend the weekend of January 18 to 21, 2024.

One of a group of judges, mostly Jewish, who accepted appointment by the white government to the bench and used the opportunity to try to protect people of

Usually, I would begin the column with the bullocks, but I think it makes sense to give out my year-end lists at the top. For my best and worst rankings, I stuck strictly to my...

George Miller may have the most fascinating filmography of any director. His feature debut was the original “Mad Max,” which could be the most impactful first movie besides Terrance Malick’s “Badlands.” Then he doubled down...

Now we have “Maestro”, which will go on the ever-growing list of biopics with nothing to say about their subject, in this case, Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper).

I believe there should be a law that when provoked by human indecency I, or any good Samaritan, should be allowed to plunk the offender with a 77-mile-per-hour fastball to the side. Seattle has the...

Perhaps our most neglected genre, horror is too often pigeonholed as an unserious artisanal product. It is most closely associated with gross-out cash grabs, the style lending itself to cheap productions that can be made...

On a Friday night, the movie theater was packed – more so than I had seen in a long time, making my little heart flutter with joy. Adults totting toddlers, teenagers with bloodshot eyes joking...

Meg Ryan – and her triumphant return to romantic comedies – submits only her second directorial performance. Almost three decades on from one of the greatest 10-year runs in the history of cinema where she...