The final installment of the 'Fantastic Beasts' trilogy is a welcome evolution in the way gay men are portrayed in mass-market cinema. Sadly, there are other considerable problems that prevent it from its full potential as an instrument of change....
A Times opinion piece prompts concern that so many devout Catholics on the Supreme Court, kneeling to the world's only absolute monarch, might be an existential threat to America's foundational ethos....
This week's sample-sized reviews of random filmed content gets personal. If anyone's ever wondered just how big and fat the Indian wedding market is in monetary terms, we were there for its birth as a real industry in 1988....
Why is it that people constantly use 'fascist' for staunch liberal democracies like America and Israel, but not Russia and China? They consistently meet textbook definitions of the F-word, but nobody's reading....
Just as Trump was a four-year stress test of the strength of American democracy, Putin is showing those who doubted the cohesion of the Free World that it has never been weak, or truly threatened....
Only midseason, the subtext about American cultural and racial relationships Taylor Sheridan's prequel to 'Yellowstone,' are already intellectually weighty enough for a few dissertations....
In his most personal film to date, Paolo Sorrentino is too timid in confronting the depth of his grief, seemingly embarrassed of eliciting pathos. With more a truthful rawness, it could've been a masterpiece....
Aaron Sorkin had the opportunity to create an incendiary cautionary tale about the terrors of wokeism, but he pulls back and plays it safe, even in interviews. So meta....
A gay man crushes on some of "the most beautiful women in the world" in an era before sexual fluidity....
The short 'n sweet about Pablo Larraín's 'Spencer,' Will Sharpe's 'The Electrical Life of Luis Main,' and 'Kin,' with Charlie Cox....