Film
As Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger is in a movie that doesn’t match her fine performance.
Why has Downton Abbey, the film and the series, been so successful? We are given a romanticized vision of essential ‘Britishness,’ a nostalgic version of the class system.
Three remarkable films that promise a bumper crop of world cinema yet to come at the NY Film Festival.
This clever Japanese zombie film is a spirited attempt to blow up and reinvigorate the genre.
Linda Ronstadt was every young female singer’s aspirational goddess: if you could nail “You’re No Good” or “Blue Bayou” in the car or the shower, you had practiced a lot.
Satanic Panic is a crazy ride, managing along the way to poke fun at the lifestyles of the rich and bored, reminding us that decadence among the upper classes is very scary indeed.
This tender documentary makes an airtight case that cinema has lost a very special person.

Film Reconsideration: The Beats’s “Pull My Daisy” at 60
You can go home again, daddy-o, but you’re not the same person you were the first time around.
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