Marc Jacobs wears terrific pajamas, as you might expect: comfortably loose but crisply shaped, in a sort of metallic jacquard more typically seen on expensive upholstery, with creases that s…
Those of us who first understood Shakerism not as a religious movement but as a mail-order furniture company " like a particularly elegant, artisanal version of Ikea " have much to learn fro…
Let's not bury the lede: "After the Hunt" gives Julia Roberts her best film role in at least 20 years. That's both a big statement " two decades is a long time by any standard, an eternity i…
In his autobiography, Keith Richards described "As Tears Go By," a disarmingly simple ballad that he and Mick Jagger composed under duress, as "a terrible piece of tripe." You can see why, g…
The instantly immortal Rihanna lyric "We found love in a hopeless place" comes to mind more than once in "On the Sea," and perhaps unfairly so. The severe, slate-skied stretch of northern We…
Anyone approaching "Blue Film" hoping to be titillated, per the pornographic implication of the title, is likely to be disappointed. "Blue" denotes sex, certainly, and that's forever on the …
No man is an island, except, perhaps, a man who owns one. The alienating, even dehumanizing effects of extreme wealth and privilege are brought to bear in "The Birthday Party," a grim little…
The gray suburban fringes of Cork's Northside region are gradually colored with hope in "Christy," an old-fashioned coming-of-age heartwarmer with few narrative surprises but a winningly aut…
Dense with tall, light-swallowing spruce trees and rooted in sodden, fertile ground, the Å umava Forest along the Czech-German border looks and feels like the setting for a Grimm Brothers …
You can't go home again, as Thomas Wolfe famously told us, and the drifting, dawdling protagonist of "The Visitor" knows it all too well. But he goes home anyway, and stays there, and stays …
Ahead of Grand Theft Hamlet, in which Shakespeare's play is staged entirely inside a video game, check out cinema's avenging princes, from Laurence Olivier to Ethan Hawke When I was 16, for …
The multi-hyphenate talks about the rerelease of his groundbreaking drama Shortbus and the changes in how we view sex in the past 15 years It's a little more than 15 years since John Cameron…
Joel Coen's noirish take on the Scottish play, now on Apple TV+, is up against Shakespeare screen classics from luminaries including Kurosawa, Olivier and Baz Luhrmann With Joel Coen's The T…
Superb performances from Tom Hanks as a hijacked skipper and the late James Gandolfini as a disillusioned divorcee are among this week's DVD highlightsFor an ostensible Everyman, Tom Hanks h…