Literary adaptations are having a moment. In 2021, four of the year’s most acclaimed films — “Drive My Car,” “The…
Author: Kevin Parks
Kevin Parks
Kevin is a freelance writer and film critic who lives in New York. His favorite director is Robert Altman and he dearly misses Netflix's delivery DVD service.
On January 6, 2022, both Sidney Poitier and Peter Bogdanovich died, a harsh dual blow to the film industry. Reflecting…
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On the set of Brian De Palma’s “Casualties of War” (1989), Sean Penn reportedly would taunt Michael J. Fox, calling…
This Father’s Day, we’re presenting a list of screen dads who don’t necessarily fit the ideal of a model father.…
There’s no hero quite like a Werner Herzog hero. In both his fiction and documentary films, Herzog has profiled ambitious,…
Fitting that it was a John Ford film that gave us the line, “When a fact becomes legend, print the…
The most perplexing moviegoing experience of my life happened at a “Cabaret” screening five years ago. Also, the most irritating:…
You only have one mother, and if you’re lucky, you’ll get to spend some time with her this weekend. And…
At the 1959 Academy Awards, Vincente Minnelli’s “Gigi” was nominated for nine Oscars, and the film won all of them.…