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Held: 2½ NOMADLAND: What a long trip. Way back in September, it was the “people’s choice” at the Toronto film festival. Since then, it has been written about almost every week, won over 200 awards (including Golden Globes) and received six Academy Award nominations. (It’s often cited as the front-runner). So, finally it’s here — in a very few theatres that are actually open and streaming on Disney+. It has been worth the wait. This is a gentle, must-see film. It starts with images of a grim America and ultimately celebrates what used to be great about the country: The people and...

The 93rd Academy Awards are less than three weeks away, and despite fewer films being released in 2020 because of the pandemic, there are still dozens of truly fantastic films being recognized.  Every year, some of the most overlooked categories at the Oscars are the short film categories. And just as all the major categories are stacked with excellence this year, so are the shorts. The five films nominated for best live-action short film this year are “Feeling Through,” “The Letter Room,” “The Present,” “Two Distant Strangers” and ‘White Eye.â...

SHORTS TV As we prepare for the upcoming Academy Awards, one category—or, to be precise, three categories that are easy to gloss over are the short films. This is because most of us simply haven’t seen or even heard of them. SHORTS TV has made a laudable effort to change this, and the 2 021 Oscar Nominated Shorts can be viewed in theaters and online—mostly online this year, if we are being honest. As a filmmaker in addition to being a film critic, I’m most prolific in the area of making short films because they are easier to get made at a high quality and on a low budget. But as some...

Desus & Mero, Showtime, 11 PM Friday The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Disney+, 3 AM Invincible, Amazon Prime, 3 AM The Mighty Ducks, Disney+, 3 AM For All Mankind, Apple TV+, 3 AM Have You Ever Seen Fireflies?, Netflix, 3 AM Night in Paradise, Netflix, 3 AM Thunder Force, Netflix, 3 AM Two Distant Strangers, Netflix, 3 AM On the Spectrum (season finale), HBO Max, 3 AM Macgyver, CBS, 8 PM Hysterical, FX, 9 PM Penn & Teller: Fool Us, CW, 9 PM Wynonna Earp (series finale), Syfy, 10 PM Doing the Most with Phoebe Robinsons (series premiere), Comedy Central, 11 PM Saturday Lust: A Seven Deadly Si...

Burrow (USA, 6 minutes) Director: Madeline Sharafian.  In perhaps the quaintest of the five animated shorts, a female rabbit digs for new digs only to repeatedly find herself invading the space of other burrowing creatures. This process continues until she learns going it alone isn’t nearly as fun and rewarding as joining together to form a community. What Sharafian, an artist on the Oscar-winning “Coco,” lacks in imagination is handsomely compensated by superior animation techniques and a fastidious attention to detail. Still, it fails to unearth much emotion.  Grade: B- Genius Loci ...