January 7, 2024
By Harlan Jacobson
Audiences have trickled back this year except for the torrent of those lined up to see big deal event films, when the mashup of Barbenheimer dominated the mediascape. Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER with Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer pulled back the cinema curtain on the Bomb of All Bombs
March 18, 2024
By Harlan Jacobson
While the politics that has come to the SXSW multimedia music, film, great thinkers, and tech festival that comes to a close this weekend in Austin, our film critic Harlan Jacobson has just returned, and has a report.
April 26, 2024
By Harlan Jacobson
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.
Park City, Utah
January 28, 2024
By Harlan Jacobson
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.
March 8, 2024
By Harlan Jacobson
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.
