Stunningly filmed by Roger Horrocks (director of photography) and smoothly edited by Pippa Ehrlich and Dan Schwalm with overall direction credited to Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, the Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher tells the […]

The career of and the cruelty in Tina Turner’s life is told in Tina, an HBO documentary currently streaming. Not only do we become reacquainted with the strife and struggles faced by this one-of-a-kind talent — whose […]

As testified by an authority no less impressive than Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and erstwhile United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Martin Luther King Jr. “shed a […]

With theaters closed and live theater on the life support of screen streaming, your committed theater writer is obliged to keeping this column vibrant and relevant until we all can return to live performance […]

JD Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy has been turned into a Netflix movie directed by Ron Howard,  the competent — but too eager to satisfy the mainstream moviegoer — auteur of such popular films as Splash and Apollo 13, both starring […]