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.
Jurassic World: Rebirth is the seventh in the franchise that began in 1993 when book and screenplay author Michael Crichton, a native of Roslyn, Long Island, had just turned 50. Harlan also talks about the opening for Kill the Jockey.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
Hillbilly Elegy came a callin’ on Netflix in time for Thanksgiving to remind us about how complicated the notion of family really is. Our film critic, Harlan Jacobson, takes us to...Read More
Greyhound is a WWII tale of American heroics in the North Atlantic , written by and starring Tom Hanks, who’s made a great career out of putting forward humble men who...Read More
Spike Lee has made some 25 feature films and five documentaries in a career devoted to putting the black American experience onscreen. His latest film is Da 5 Bloods. I go...Read More
When you book with an account, you will be able to track your payment status, track the confirmation and you can also rate the tour after you finished the tour.
