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...

The 96th Academy Awards, the Oscars, will take place next Sunday, March 10 in Hollywood, and love them, hate them, or ignore them, there never seems to be a shortage of things to say about them. Given how the previous bellwether award groups have gone, Oppenheimer with the most Oscar nominations, 13, will likely dominate the night. Christopher...

This year I parachuted into Sundance remotely from the greater NY-NJ metroplex to take the pulse of a festival that kicks off the acquisition year for American film companies scouting for films to bring to theaters and streamers. 40-year old Jesse Eisenberg, who first came to Sundance in 2005 as part of the troubled Berkman...