Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Adam Sandler’s Genuine Love of Basketball Shines Through in Hustle

Adam Sandler is not above surprising us every so often. He did it not too long ago in the hyper-real world of Uncut Gems, much as he pulled together a […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Often Delightful, Sometimes Heartbreaking, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza Is One of the Year’s Best

Licorice Pizza

I was too young in the early to mid-1970s to have any real appreciation or nostalgia for the era today; and I grew up on the east coast, nowhere near […]

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Film, Film & TV, Interview

Interview: Stand-Out Chicago Actor Pat Healy on Making Westerns, Costumes to Inspire Character and Bonding on the Set of The Pale Door

The Pale Door

Chicago-born actor Pat Healy has been working steadily and memorably in film and television for more than 20 years, in parts of every size and shape, beginning with his time […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Film Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Continues to Impress with Phantom Thread

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I make no excuses about the fact that I adore every Paul Thomas Anderson film to varying (often excessive) degrees. And while all of them have felt very “adult” in […]

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Film, Film & TV

Screens Monthly: What to Watch in December

December means holiday parties and traveling to see family and last-minute gift shopping…any free time you may have is quickly filled up by the demands of the season. If, by […]

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