Arts & Culture Film
John AndersonDecember 30, 2020Have we seen the end of motion pictures as we knew them?
Arts & Culture Film
John AndersonDecember 11, 2020The last movie in his “Godfather” trilogy was critically eviscerated when it debuted, and “The Godfather: Coda, The Death of Michael Corleone” seems a last-ditch effort to redeem the film.
Arts & Culture Film
John AndersonNovember 13, 2020There is no way not to see “Mank” as a tale of self-destruction and professional suicide.
Arts & Culture Film
John AndersonOctober 16, 2020That “Chicago 7” is turning up on Netflix at this precise moment is no accident, the moment being serious.
Arts & Culture Film
John AndersonSeptember 16, 2020“The Devil All the Time” is a story of fathers and sons, serial killers, religious frauds and fundamentalist lunatics.
Arts & Culture Film
John AndersonAugust 28, 2020“Copperfield” on the page or on the screen is a moral fable, the story of a boy growing into a moral man
Arts & Culture Film
John AndersonAugust 28, 2020‘Fatima,’ gives both the innocent faithful and the innocently faithless their due.
Arts & Culture Film
John AndersonJuly 17, 2020“Flannery” is an apologia for O’Connor but, like any good defense, it takes the position that she doesn’t need one.
Arts & Culture Books
John AndersonJuly 17, 2020Mantel’s portrait of More is of a self-serving whiner with a death wish. But what must always be remembered is that she is creating fiction.
Arts & Culture Television
John AndersonMay 29, 2020One of the basics of comedy is the element of surprise, and Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” surprised us by not being comedy.