Widower's Tango

December 28, is a designated holy day on the Roman Catholic calendar known as The Feast of the Massacre of the Innocents, commemorating the ...

Too often, some of the best critics are asked by their readers if there is anything they actually like, since their reviews are so often neg...

"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled fo...

"All our discoveries are due to our violences." -E.M. Cioran The poet and novelist Robert Graves once likened scientists to silkwo...

Give Back the Prize I have already said enough about the Nobel Prize for Literature (see Two Cheers for the Nobel Prize ). I would only add ...

[A piece I wrote for Senses of Cinema in 2001. With Truffaut long dead, Godard and Chabrol both turning 79, the French New Wave would appear...

Fewer people than ever are showing interest in the elements that used to define the medium of film, like creating images of real people in r...