Harlan Jacobson and guest contributors provide film reviews, festival and film industry coverage, along with interviews and which can regularly be heard on WBGO.org.
James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown traces the arrival from the Minnesota Range of 20 year-old Bob Dylan in Morris Plains, NJ to sing “Song to Woody” at Woody Guthrie’s hospital bed, attended by Pete Seeger in 1961—all the way to the infamous day Dylan would’ve...Read More
With the insanely popular and priced Hamilton, show creator Lin-Manuel Miranda built a Broadway bridge to the American Revolution for minority audiences to cross over and inhabit the story. His new...Read More
DD: Normally, Godzilla Vs. Kong is the sort of big screen special effects slugfest that draws all sorts of folks to the biggest screens they can find for Easter: kids, cretins, CEOs of...Read More
Having closed down in 2020, along with the rest of the world, the Tribeca Film Festival is the first American festival to come back, or most of the way back...Read More
Sony Pictures Classics releases the new documentary film JAZZFEST: A NEW ORLEANS STORY on May 13 in NYC and LA. The film’s director, 5-time Academy Awards nominee Frank Marshall, Quint Davis of the New...Read More
Actress turned director Regina King’s One Night in Miami is a ‘what if’ fictional story about the night of Feb. 25, 1964 when 22-year-old Cassius Clay whups Sonny Liston for the Heavyweight...Read More
Old Henry, Power of the Dog, The Harder They Fall : A fabulous trifecta of Westerns By Harlan Jacobson Old Henry, Power of the Dog and The Harder They Fall aren’t your great...Read More
You don’t have to go to the movies—or pull them up online—to get a sense of the generational discontent that drove the election this week. Our film critic, Harlan Jacobson,...Read More
R &B, ROCK & GOSPEL legend Little Richard left us this month. You can spend some time listening to him or even looking at him on film. There’s a wonderful...Read More
After all that has been said about Mssrs. Biden and Trump and how they differ from soup to nuts, in that order, the one thing they shared as candidates and...Read More
What to watch in a pandemic is new territory for a film critic. Nothing as WBGO film critic I’m expected to deal with not now. Or Ever. But here we...Read More
Our film critic Harlan Jacobson got the Blues this Christmas by dropping in on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the new film based on an August Wilson play from 1984. The film...Read More
In HG Wells’ original 1897 novel, The Invisible Man, the central character, Griffin, is a medical student turned optical scientist who’s successfully unlocked the key to how we see—and turned himself...Read More
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