This past Saturday was Record Store Day. I don’t own vinyl or a record player but the excitement of the day and the celebration of music and the frustration towards […]

Hannah Arendt is having a moment. There’s renewed interest in this brilliant 20th century political philosopher, probably best known for her writing on the Adolf Eichmann trial in Israel, published […]

On a rainy Thursday evening I was riding the train home from work noticing all of the people sharing the car with me. Mothers, fathers, grandparents, uncles, someone’s something. Some […]

By Bob Benenson Some men were born to battle. Some were born to run. I, apparently, was born to be a home cook. And these days, I do almost all of […]

Guest post by Hayden Mears. Mild spoilers ahead. As it approaches its end, “Game of Thrones” is strange to behold. The seventh season saw a dramatic increase in production value […]

Cambodia’s violent and genocidal past doesn’t sound like a story that will have you leaving the theater smiling. But Lauren Yee manages to create a small miracle with her brave, […]

Last Saturday morning marked the 15th annual Holy Half Marathon (informally called the Holy Half), a race around the campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. The […]

Mike Leigh’s last film, 2014’s Mr. Turner, was a lush biopic about the final decades of painter J.M.W. Turner’s life, with British character actor Timothy Spall elevated to a lead role […]

Just a few weeks after Sebastian Lelio gifted us with an English-language remake of Gloria Bell, about a woman in her 50s looking for love and connection in Los Angeles, writer/director […]

Admittedly, most of the people who go to see The Chaperone probably don’t know much about the pre-fame life of silent film star Louise Brooks (played here by Haley Lu […]

If I have to convince you to go see this documentary chronicling the two Aretha Franklin performances at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts neighborhood of Los […]

As far as animation houses go, the stop-frame animation loyalists at Laika have a perfect record in my book, with a run that includes ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the […]