Widower's Tango

In his review of a documentary about famed physicist Stephen Hawking, film critic Stanley Kauffmann addressed the ever-expanding distance ...

This past week or so, when yet another monstrous typhoon, Hagupit (aka Ruby) - not quite as powerful as Haiyan (aka Yolanda) of late last ye...

Chris Rock is a very successful black comedian. He's hosted some of the biggest award shows, like the Oscars. Bob Hope and Johnny Car...

About a decade ago, when I loaded my DVD player with the Criterion edition of Marcel Carne's classic film The Children of Paradise , I...

Here on my Philippine island, I live in a solid, cinder block house in an outlying barangay of a nearby port town. On either side of my h...

Because he decided from the beginning to go his own way, and continues to work, at 82, as a writer, director, cinematographer, and edi...

Mike Nichols (1931-2014). He was engaged in every dramatic medium - even in radio, since his first award, a Grammy, was for his comedy re...