While volunteering for the Student World Impact Film Festival for their 2023 edition, I had the pleasure of watching “Contrary…
To be a Bob Fosse heroine is a tough gig, if you got it. Shirley MacLaine’s ‘Charity’ is a bleeding-heart…
Roald Dahl’s beloved classic “Matilda” has always been a family favourite, starting with the classic 1996 film by Danny DeVito,…
João Pedro Rodrigues’ “Will-o’-the-Wisp” (“Fogo-fátuo”) creatively, although disjointedly, examines colonial oppression and the effects of remembrance in the relationship of…
Benjamin Millepied’s first film is a unique effort, namely for its combination of music and dance. Based on one of…
The most perplexing moviegoing experience of my life happened at a “Cabaret” screening five years ago. Also, the most irritating:…
At the 1959 Academy Awards, Vincente Minnelli’s “Gigi” was nominated for nine Oscars, and the film won all of them.…
The latest film by acclaimed director Joe Wright harps back to a tale reminiscent of “Romeo and Juliet,” which English…
“Judy” opens in on a conversation between a 13-year-old Judy Garland and her manager/producer/head of MGM Louis B. Mayer, literally behind…
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut brings themes of romance and the existential dread of turning 30 to Netflix audiences in an…