Contributor: Where did all the feel-good movies go?
There was a time when Hollywood knew how to make audiences feel joy, leaving us feeling lighter when we left…
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Review of 'Father Mother Sister Brother': Family tensions, subtly wrought
The holidays bring good mood: an opportunity to reflect, but also, most likely, family anxiety. Jim Jarmusch's latest film is…
Contributor: Prison methods are as bad as you've heard and they extend to the streets
I was one of the researchers of the well-known Stanford prison experiment in 1971, which demonstrated the destructive dynamics that…
How Oscar nominee 'Arco' imagines not one climate apocalypse but two
The most impressive part of the French animated sci-fi epic “Arc,” which took first prize at the Annecy International Animated…
James Ransone dies: Star of 'The Wire', 'It: Chapter Two' was 46 years old
James Ransone, a character actor who played an impulsive drug-dealing dockworker in the iconic HBO series “The Wire” and later…
Phil Wickham and 'David' take on the Goliath of 'Avatar'
Phil Wickham has released 14 Christian worship albums, been certified Platinum, and been nominated for American Music Awards, Dove Awards,…
Our love story was divided by reproductive options and continents.
Freezing your eggs is not sexy. Neither the existential questions it imposes nor the toll it takes on your body…
'Is this thing on?' review: Arnett, Dern in a dramedy about self-reinvention
Therapy is often used for comedy, but we don't often see comedy treated as sincere therapy. “Is this thing on?”…
Joe Ely, Texas country-rock legend and collaborator with The Clash and Bruce Springsteen, dies at 78
Joe Ely, singer-songwriter and key figure in the Texas progressive country-rock scene, has died. He was 78 years old. According…
Rob Reiner was a Hollywood maverick who never wanted to repeat himself
“When I die,” Rob Reiner once joked to an interviewer, “I want my tombstone to say, 'I'm in this place…