Dear viewers, I send you this week to the brand new Maine Film Center in Waterville to enjoy Francis O’Connor’s directorial debut film “Emily.” O’Connor, a former actor with a shiny resume (“Mansfield Park” 1999, “Bedazzled” 2000) steps out of the hot lights and into the impressive powerful dark world behind the camera where the […]

I came to like the young Jonah Hill when he was the “6 year kid” on Saturday Night Live. It was a hilarious bit and SNL repeated it, to my delight, many times. Then young Hill went sideways and off the Pacific Coast highway of showbiz. “21 Jump Street” and “22 Jump Street” and the […]

The German film earned nine Oscar nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

It’s back, in a splendid colorful movie, first viewed in 2019. “Deadwood: The Movie” is a 2019 American Western television film directed by Daniel Minahan and written by David Milch for HBO. It is a continuation of the television series of the same name, which was created by Milch and ran for three seasons from […]

Here he is, the beloved British chameleon, the charmer, saloon tap dancer, film and Broadway Tony winner Bill Nighy, whom you remember as Billy Mack, the boozy sensualist rock star in “Love Actually,” or as the shy, retiring husband in “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.” But here, in director Oliver Hermanus’s, soft, dark and heart-breaking […]