Travel & Experiences
Sept. 16, 2014
Music
As an experienced musician and longtime subscriber to The Times, I’m used to butting heads with many of Robert Hilburn’s writings.
Dec. 8, 2001
Movies
Despite his death 25 years ago this week, Charlie Chaplin endures as an icon, in part because of his characters’ humanity.
Dec. 27, 2002
Animator and longtime Florida Film Festival friend Bill Plympton makes edgy, delightful and defiantly messy cartoon shorts.
May 12, 2019
Tony Barbieri’s bland romantic drama Em is about two 20somethings who meet, mate, move in together only to discover that one of them is bipolar and this will never work out.
A classic movie is one that gets under our skin, that resonates in the culture, that becomes a cultural catchphrase.
Back in the olden days, when “adult movie” meant movies for grownups, not “just” sexually explicit pictures, a major studio let a major director (John Schlesinger) and two rising stars make the most daring, provocative and “adult” movie of its day.
Deadgirl is a River’s Edge for misogynists, a zombie movie with high schoolers struggling and failing to do the right thing when faced with a big moral choice.
Here’s a documentary about a piece of history many won’t believe ever happened.
Doug Pray’s documentary Art & Copy suggests that advertising is the dominant modern-art form.