Wicked, the Universal Studios film of the monster Broadway musical hit, has come roaring down the pike bigger than a Kansas twister and is finding all those Wicked fans who’ve been waiting for two decades for the film to be made.

When Our Town opened on Broadway in February 1938, playwright Thornton Wilder had written it 20 years after WWI had ended, nine years into the Great Depression and in a time that probably felt a bit like now, watching the world slide toward another war, and wondering how caught up in it America would be.

Some years ago, I was with my family at the Marrakesh International Film Festival, where I took my daughter to the world premiere of Body of Lies, an espionage thriller by master intrigue and action director, Ridley Scott. Events this week brought that screening back to me.

The 62nd New York Film Festival is held at the Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) is a nonprofit organization that celebrates cinema as an essential art form and fosters a vibrant home for film culture to thrive.

The 49th Toronto Film Festival from has been productive and well executed, as the media, the business people and the very enthusiastic public – some might say they never met a picture they didn’t like – were in good supply.

In ALEX GARLAND’S new film, CIVIL WAR, we are dropped not exactly into the middle of a new American civil war, more like the end game of one that the film wants to say could be just around the corner.

It was Spring Break of Freshman year, 1968. I don’t have to remind you how 1968 began and ended. The news from the outside world relentlessly bore down on everyone. This past year, 2020, may have surpassed it in weight, but that depends on how you tally. They are the two years in my life...

Anthony Hopkins on renouncing the Hollywood game and renewing his passion to create by Harlan Jacobson – Around the turn of the millennium, anthony hopkins started making bold moves. He ended his marriage of 30 years, met Stella Arroyave, a San Francisco antiques dealer, and ended up marry.ing her. He renounced his U.K. citizenship but...

When baseball returns this weekend, whichever team you look forward to seeing take the field, whatever players you hope make it through the season in one piece, whether it’s Judge and Soto or Alonso and whoever else they have over there, there’s also good reason to look back. Roberto Clemente, the legendary right fielder of the...