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Film Review: Practical Magic 2. It was never about the witches.
It is about family, but mostly it is about what it means to be sisters and what it means to be women.
16 hours ago2 min read


Film Review. Practical Magic. 26 Years Later
We are now in 2026, and God, do we need it. We have a deep urge to know that women can find our power again and that it cannot be stripped from us, broom after broom. That no matter what forces surround us or try to do us in, if we stick together, we can overcome every one of them.
4 days ago3 min read


Film Review: The Whisper Man on Netflix
Robert De Niro is amazing in The Whisper Man. The script does not give him much to work with, so apparently he decided to write the rest of it with his face. A tightening around the mouth. A pause before answering. A look that lasts half a second longer than it should. He shows us a man with enormous regrets about his family and what his work with a serial killer did to undo it. He also shows us his intelligence. You can practically watch his mind moving around the room, pick
Sep 53 min read


Film Review: Niu Lai
Every now and again, I love running across a review of something that would never otherwise have crossed my path. Meet my friend and client Andrew Singer, who brings China to America, and America to China, without the filter of our political environment, which just might be skewing the presentation toward one side or the other. I have learned so much from reading his column. But this is simply a film review, and it made me want to see the film. I hope it does the same for yo
Sep 15 min read


Film Review: The Invite
The Invite. A marital autopsy, only they are all still alive.
Aug 154 min read


Series Review: The Testaments
You cannot watch The Testaments in a vacuum. You simply can’t. It has to be viewed in relationship to The Handmaid’s Tale because the emotional weight of the entire series depends on what we already lived through with June, with Hannah, with Gilead itself. I came into this series carrying years of fear, grief, rage, and exhaustion from The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Testaments smartly uses that history instead of trying to recreate it. What surprised me was how many people appa
May 305 min read


Film Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures
And so the deeply human characters unwind in front of us. And just as she has so many times before, Sally Field unveils her inner self, not miming a character laid out for her on the pages, but finding her own character from her own past and showing it in every line on her face, every tone of voice, and every slow-moving movement of her aging body.
May 104 min read


Series Review: The Night Manager. Season Two.
First, I need to start with a bone to pick. I waited ten years for season two. Ten. By now, Jonathan Pine would have been promoted out of night manager at least a dozen times. Worse, I had to spend two hours reviewing season one just to remember what the hell even happened, and that still felt optimistic for a show I last watched a decade ago. And the bigger question is why should I have to. Either commit to releasing seasons within a reasonable window or I am gone. Gone gone
Feb 113 min read


Diane Keaton...
Diane Keaton was part of the wallpaper of the women in my generation's lives.
Oct 11, 20252 min read


The Morning Show: Season 4, Episode 3, Mia's Moment
Is anyone watching season four of The Morning Show? I hope it doesn’t get buried in the fourth season, “I don’t need to bother with this series anymore, it’s going on too long.” Spoiler alerts if you haven’t seen the third episode. It’s easy not to notice Mia. She’s got a profound role, and has through all the seasons, but she’s never standing at the front of the line. Why, you ask? Because she’s trying so hard to get to the ceiling, and because she has nothing else in her li
Oct 2, 20254 min read


Dog Day Afternoon #BlastFromThePast (Released 1975)
Half a century later, its themes feel prophetic. Identity, systemic inequity, and a culture addicted to media spectacle are even sharper in today’s world, where every crisis is broadcast and replayed in seconds. Dog Day Afternoon isn’t just a time capsule of the 1970s — it’s a mirror, reminding us how spectacle, desperation, and humanity intertwine.
Oct 2, 20252 min read


The Net #BlastFromThePast (Released July 1995)
Released in 1995, The Net imagined a world where one woman’s identity could be erased with a keystroke, long before we understood just how much power the internet would hold over our lives.
Sep 21, 20252 min read


Robert Redfort Tribute
Of course, I noticed Robert Redford first in Out of Africa , but I was young and unshrunken at that point, and I preferred bad boys who...
Sep 17, 20253 min read


Bring it On #BlastFromThePast (Released in early September 2000)
Why it Matters A high-energy cheerleading comedy that debuted 25 years ago, Bring It On quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Directed...
Sep 16, 20251 min read


Almost Famous #BlastFromThePast (Released on September 13, 2000)
Remember September 2000? Y2K panic was officially behind us, iPods hadn’t yet replaced our mix CDs, and the soundtrack to every vaguely...
Sep 11, 20252 min read


Film Review: Highest 2 Lowest
Spike Lee and Highest 2 Lowest: A Revelation In my earlier, immature, less enlightened years, I didn’t get Spike Lee. I didn’t like the...
Sep 8, 20256 min read


HBO Series Review: And Just Like That. The Beast In Me Coming out in November.
Time to say good-bye to all things Sex and the City, and hear about the exciting announcement of Claire Danes' new show coming out in...
Aug 18, 20255 min read


Fourth of July 2025. Watch Our Nation on the Screen. Skip the Parades.
On this 4th of July, choose the screen, not the parades. Look at great American moments from our past. Hope they can come back in the future. Hollister...
Jul 1, 20257 min read


Cannes 2025: Notes from a Festival That Still Matters
I don’t know what you were doing this week, but I was watching Cannes from the sidelines, piecing together the buzz, the ovations, and...
May 26, 20253 min read


Movie Review: The Friend
Is it possible that a movie with Bill Murray could bring out actual empathy?Yes. Yes, he can.
May 18, 20252 min read
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