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.
Wicked: For Good finishes the story of two young witches who met in their witchcraft school days at Shiz university, and post-graduately struggle for the soul of the Emerald City of Oz in Munchkinland.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
While the rest of the world is focused on that piece of theatre going on in Washington, this is Sundance, 2020, the year we all hope to see clearly. The...Read More
Ratings for the Oscars have fallen off a cliff in recent years, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has done everything but one to stop the slide:...Read More
DD: The Toronto International Film Festival has been the gateway for serious filmgoing since at least American Beauty started up north in September 1999 and went all the way to...Read More
DD: Our film critic, Harlan Jacobson, doesn’t work on Labor Day has always graced us with his annual Labor Day Address to the Nation to explain why he doesn’t work...Read More
DD: The NY Film Festival, which ended last weekend, was a miracle that it happened at all. The 58th festival, since its founding in 1962 by Richard Roud and Amos...Read More
The Safdie Bros. last film, Good Time, written with writing partner Ron Bronstein, was a furious chase film with Robert Pattinson on a mad, upside down dash through criminal Queens, like...Read More
DeNiro, Pesci, Keitel, Pacino. Old home week for the Mob in Martin Scorsese’s much awaited and acclaimed The Irishman, which had its debut at the NY Film Festival last month and...Read More
As my friend and Indiewire columnist Tom Brueggemann noted this week: This summer Disney had five films cross the $1 billion mark worldwide — with fewer tickets sold domestically than any year since...Read More
Pain and Glory is writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s 21st film in a career spanning nearly 40 years. I caught it at this year’s resplendent Toronto film Festival, but it touched down briefly...Read More
Plenty to see in this 44th rolling out of films in Toronto, the unlikely glitz capital of the world for these past 10 days. The major film companies, plus the itty-bitty...Read More
Rolling Thunder Revue’s subtitle is A Bob Dylan Story, told by Scorsese with a little help from his friends at Netflix, which helped Scorsese and collaborators find restore to vibrancy footage of...Read More
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