A Journey Through Cinema’s

PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE

  • “The Devil Wears Prada 2” – A Legacy Sequel Done Right

    “The Devil Wears Prada 2” – A Legacy Sequel Done Right

    There is a moment near the end of The Devil Wears Prada 2 — Miranda Priestly turns to Andy Sachs from the back of a car and says, quietly, “I just love working, don’t you? I love what I do and I feel I have a few more good years to do it.” Andy says…

  • “Lorne”: The Last Man in Show Business

    “Lorne”: The Last Man in Show Business

    I have loved Saturday Night Live for as long as I can remember loving anything on television. I came to it the way most people do, through reruns and clips and the slow accumulation of the cultural shorthand the show has been generating for half a century, and I have stayed with it through the…

  • “Michael” (2026) is as confounding as it is toe-tapping

    “Michael” (2026) is as confounding as it is toe-tapping

    There is a particular kind of bad movie that earns the word confounding, and Michael, Antoine Fuqua’s long-gestating, twice-rewritten, $200-million biopic of Michael Jackson, is the rare specimen that genuinely deserves it. I walked away from the film certain I had hated it, and equally certain that two or three of its sequences belong in…

  • “Project Hail Mary” will Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!

    “Project Hail Mary” will Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!

    There’s a particular kind of science fiction that trusts you. Not the kind that stops the movie every twenty minutes to hand you a glossy explainer, but the kind that assumes you’re smart enough to sit with a problem, follow a mind at work, and feel the wonder of genuine discovery. Project Hail Mary, directed…

  • The Religion of Baseball in “Field of Dreams”

    The Religion of Baseball in “Field of Dreams”

    There is a moment near the end of Field of Dreams that undoes me completely, every single time. It is not the catch — though the catch will finish the job. It is Moonlight Graham walking off the field. Doc Graham has just stepped across the white chalk line to save young Karen Kinsella from…

“Relating a person to the whole world: that is the power of cinema.”

Andrei Tarkovsky