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
Tribeca continues to be this blast of energy radiating from the downtown media hub on Varick Street, including the Regal multiplex in Battery Park through the SVA Theatre on W. 23rd up...Read More
It was an extraordinarily diverse year in films. There were multiple films at all different levels of taste and interests. And great performances dropped out of the sky—or should I...Read More
Just as Hollywood drags 2018 way past the finish line with the Oscars set for Feb. 24 of this year, the Sundance Film Festival which closes this weekend kicks off...Read More
First and foremost is the long-awaited Roma by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron. Roma is autobiographical, a sense memory of growing up in Mexico City during the 1970s. It’s a gorgeous, deeply observant lens on...Read More
The serious fun season of movies kicks off just after Labor Day with the Toronto International Film Festival that closes this weekend. Now in its 43rd year, Toronto, or TIFF,...Read More
It’s the last hurrah for the mid-century WASP, those men born before WWII, come of age after it, and built or dodged the System, the Death Star of the Military...Read More
As we head into the holidays, there’s a sleigh full of new films that either have opened or are opening before the end of the month. Some are in the...Read More
Film Critic Harlan Jacobson reports on Sundance 2018 Film Festival for Frankfurter Zeitung – english translation attached. Tune in here for Harlan’s Sundance coverage as heard on WBGO-FM. Read Full ReviewRead More
WBGO film critic Harlan Jacobson has just returned from the 71st Cannes Film. It’s the highest platform for film art on Planet Earth. One of the films he saw there...Read More
When you think of France, sure you think of cheese and berets, baguettes and love–or at least adultery–and what else? Wine. You think of the Bordeaux you can’t afford, snapped...Read More
The good guys, the bad guys, the good women, the bad women and the missing link in the form of a long, lost son who lays claim to the throne...Read More
It’s been a good December at the movies. Major titles that are out there to see include James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, which finds fun and meaning in the worst movie...Read More
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