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The year I didn't go to the Academy Awards

And the winner is . . .

I truly care that quality films are made. But who actually wins an Oscar makes absolutely no difference to my life.

Susan Beth Lehman

Mar 01, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

The way we watch TV has changed a lot since 1958.

In defense of binge-watching

Reading novels and watching TV actually have a fair amount in common.

Judy Weightman

Feb 18, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright star in “House of Cards.” (Photo by Melinda Sue Gordon - © Melinda Sue Gordon / Knight Takes King Prod.)

'House of Cards' on Netflix

The toxic world of political ambition

House of Cards is just good enough to make you wish it were better.

Armen Pandola

Feb 18, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

American GIs admire "In the Conservatory" by Édouard Manet. This painting from the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum in Berlin had been brought to the mine for safekeeping. (Photo credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD / Public Domain)

'Monuments Men': a disappointing tribute

I wish I could say that The Monuments Men is worthy of its subject and of the people who strove and died to save the art of western Europe. Instead, The Monuments Men is an action-comedy whose action is dull and whose comedy is formulaic.

Armen Pandola

Feb 13, 2014 Articles 11 minute read

Agata Trzebuchowska stars in Pawel Pawlikowski's 'Ida.'

Pawel Pawlikowski's 'Ida' at Sundance

Stumbling upon Ida at Sundance felt like participating in the celebration of independent film that you may not see anywhere else.

Kayleigh Butera

Feb 10, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

As Rusty in “Flawless” (1999). © 1999-Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures, Inc.-All rights reserved.

Philip Seymour Hoffman: An appreciation

Philip Seymour Hoffman was an actor who turned out to be better at inhabiting his characters' skin than his own.

Susan Beth Lehman

Feb 10, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Rampling (left), Bogarde in "The Night Porter": The attractions of sadism.

‘Hannah Arendt’: A gender issue (follow-up)

Seduced and deceived: Can we talk, please, about women and Nazis?

Could it be that both Hannah Arendt and her film biographer Margarethe von Trotta shared a degree of attraction to sadistic men that led them both to overlook the evil sadism in men like Adolf Eichmann?

Victor L. Schermer

Feb 07, 2014 Articles 6 minute read

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007)

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s fade to black

The life of Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died Sunday, resembles his art a little too closely, unfortunately.

Tara Lynn Johnson

Feb 02, 2014 Articles 2 minute read

Judi Dench, Steve Coogan in 'Philomena': Another country, another pregnancy.

Stephen Frears’s ‘Philomena’ (2nd comment)

When the Church did something right: A social worker’s story

Philomena deservedly paints the Catholic Church in its most deceptive and manipulative light. But my experience with the U.S. Church in the 1960s was a very different story.

SaraKay Smullens

Jan 27, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Martin Luther King at Riverside Church

When MLK broke with LBJ

Tavis Smiley’s two-part program on the Riverside Church speech in which Martin Luther King denounced the Vietnam War was a welcome exception to the annual ritual that diminishes King’s actual legacy.

Robert Zaller

Jan 27, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

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