Barbara Walters grew up in the glamorous-adjacent world of Lou Walters, the man she described in her memoir as “my brilliant and mercurial impresario of a father.” Lou Walters was an agent going back to the days of vaudeville, the son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who came to the United States at age 15. His

Here’s where things get a little tricky because what a critic would normally reveal in a synopsis could be something you don’t see until the seventh episode you watch, so I’ll tread lightly. The always-great Giancarlo Esposito plays Leo Pap, the Danny Ocean of this crew of misfits who has been dragged back into a

101 films to look forward to in 2023 – part one About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the

Directed by Charles Pelletier, the short comedy film Driverless could make up for a good time if you just let yourself go of pretenses and enjoy a situational comedy. The acting is amateurish, the editing is out of pace, but all in all, the script is good enough to make you laugh a few times.

The man in question is Harry Turner, an Englishman in his early twenties who was deployed to Afghanistan when he was 18 years old and emerged from his tour of duty with burn marks on his arms and severe PTSD. Such extreme trauma requires an extreme solution, and so Harry travels literally to the other

Then again, not everything is as awful as Otto makes them out to be. And he could perhaps afford to have some manners himself, especially when a new, very pregnant neighbor drops by with a bowl of home-cooked meal as a courtesy. If you’ve already seen 2015’s Oscar-nominated Swedish hit “A Man Called Ove” by

Most editor-writer relationships don’t make headlines, the way Lish and Carver’s did. But there are other famous partnerships – like Maxwell Perkins and F. Scott Fitzgerald – where the editor plays such an important role they can’t just be relegated to the background. Ezra Pound didn’t “edit” T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” so much as

Without spoiling the final act completely, it re-centers the Gladneys back at home, but with death a much more present reality in Jack’s mind. Unfortunately, as the intensity rises, “White Noise” loses some of its impact, especially in a few talky scenes near the end that betray the tone of the first half. Yes, the

Buy it here  Special FeaturesCreating The Banshees of Inisherin – FeaturetteDeleted Scenes Now streaming on: “Cooley High” (Criterion) My friend Sergio Mims, a regular contributor to this site and a legend in the Chicago film scene, LOVED this movie. It makes me a little sad he wasn’t able to get his hands on this excellent

Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan in a scene from “She Said.” (Photo: Universal Pictures). Maria Schrader’s “She Said” — based off the New York Times investigation by Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey — is powerful. It’s powerful, of course, as a journalism epic. Like “Spotlight” or “All the President’s Men,” it’s a wonderful portrayal of