Movies

The first couple days of TIFF are often dominated by films that played other fests. This year’s crop included screenings of Cannes hits like “It Was Just an Accident,” “Sirat,” “The Secret Agent,” and “Sentimental Value,” but there were...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, though that seems unlikely: two guys walk into a twin bereavement support group and uncover an unexpected rapport. Before long, they’ve formed a friendship that—somewhere between mutual healing and toxic codependency—leaves...

The following is a conversation between Robert Daniels and Odie Henderson conducted over email about Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest,” a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s noir “High and Low,” starring Denzel Washington as David King—the music mogul forced to...

It’s only September, but a new holiday classic is already upon us. Much as “The Holdovers” carved out its place in the Christmas-movie canon two years ago by finding wistful humor and aching sadness within its tale of joyous, unexpected...

The new editor-in-chief of the Toledo Truth Teller is up against it.He is in charge of a Midwestern newspaper that once employed hundreds of reporters, broke important stories, and had their own printing presses rumbling in the basement of...

I remember, a mere month ago, when I surprised even myself by finding the first half of “Wednesday” season two a bit more…. enjoyable? Buoyant? Than the first. Sure, the season, like so many of Netflix’s recent output, was...

One of my earliest memories of watching something on-screen was seeing reruns of the Canadian children’s television series “The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon” on television throughout the day. In it, Graham Greene plays Mr. Crabby Tree, a wisecracking...

Since 2015, with 2020 skipped on account of COVID, I’ve been honored to participate in the Biennale College panel. Every year, after going through over a thousand proposals, the College awards 250,000 Euros to, in this year’s case, four...