It is ironic that Richard Linklater has chosen to homage a film carved out of spontaneous new techniques with one so mired in contrivances that it is impossible for it to breathe. To be fair, Breathless is the name of the game in this black-and-white reconstruction of the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s first film. The year is
Sundance doesn’t really start until the third day. By that point, there isn’t any feeling around for what might be good. You’re hearing real buzz on the ground about the movie you must see before you leave this thin-air bubble. Sometimes, it’s merely hype. But at other points, you start watching the films you know
How decades of conservation work is saving the Puerto Rican crested toad Native to Puerto Rico and found nowhere else in the world, the Puerto Rican crested toad once played a steady role in the island’s ecosystems. Due to habitat loss, invasive species, and disease, populations reached near extinction. By the late 20th century, it
Writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s “A Little Prayer” is a quiet domestic drama about an older couple in North Carolina, their troubled adult children, the children’s significant others, and their struggles to find peace and happiness despite the mistakes they’ve made and the distress they’ve caused others. It received respectful national attention and found a theatrical audience,
Grief never really goes away, but its initial impact takes many forms. Some people are paralysed for months on end. With others, it doesn’t properly hit them until later. For some, our self-medicated methods for processing loss in the early days involve pursuing complicated projects, designed to distract us from the overwhelming mental noise. Such
Every year at the Tokyo International Film Festival, the programming team makes an effort to champion emerging talent that challenges preconceived notions of what Japanese cinema is or can be. Through their Women’s Empowerment and Nippon Cinema Now strands, the festival often showcases new work from female and non-binary filmmakers who bring their unique worldview
The first season of “Shrinking” felt a bit like a show trying to find its voice. Created by Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein, and Jason Segel, it was clearly a personal project for Segel, who threw himself into the role of a therapist suffering from the deep wounds of grief after the loss of his wife
Nick Digilio has been a movie critic for 40 years, for many of those years on WGN radio, now with a popular podcast and hosting screenings in Chicago. And I’ve been talking to him about movies for 25 of those years. I still remember our first conversation, which included a discussion of “Donnie Darko” and
Remember the Mila Kunis/Kate McKinnon spy comedy “The Spy Who Dumped Me”? Of course you don’t; neither did I. But it did come back to me when the dynamic between the straight-laced Beatrice “Bea” Grant (Emilia Clarke) and the dry-witted Twila Hasbeck (Haley Lu Richardson) reared its head in Peacock’s espionage thriller series, “Ponies.” “Ponies”
Omaha’s future streetcar route is already packed with incredible local spots — and the Future Riders Passport Program rewards you for exploring them now. Grab a passport, collect stickers at participating businesses and enter to win prizes ranging from coffee dates to full staycations. Think of it as a treasure hunt through Omaha’s most