On January 6 the eminent film director Béla Tarr died, at the age of 70.  As I admire the several films of his that I have seen ...

From the New Yorker (December 6, 2025)--"The Best Films of 2025":https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2025-in-review/the-best-films...

Season 5, episodes 10 and 11, of "The Resident" on Netflix involve a character who is diagnosed with MS. I haven't watched this ...

I haven't seen the movie or read the book but this is a documentary about a real case, and it sounds like an appalling example o...

A documentary called "Inside the Mind of a Cat" is being offered through Netflix. The trailer for it makes it look interesting:h...

Selma Blair had the stem-cell treatment for her MS. Her movie, Introducing, Selma Blair, is now available. I haven't yet seen al...

Consumer Reports has rated the top free streaming services.  Kanopy, the one I use sometimes, is one of them--"The Best Free Str...

THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR (2013, documentary)In 1929 a Dr. Friedrich Ritter, who may or may not have been a botanist, left his spouse...

I haven't seen "Dopesick" yet but this article tells about it--in MedPage Today (November 26, 2021), "Should doctors be embarras...

Wit, starring Emma Thompson, is not a movie to watch if you want something to cheer you up.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243664/...

THE LAST OF THE UNJUST (2013 documentary)This remarkable documentary may turn out to have more value as a contribution to the ar...

NEAR DEATH (1989 documentary)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097959/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1This Frederick Wiseman documentary, like other...

I saw this movie in 2002 and disliked it. I wanted to find out just what I disliked about it, and so I watched it a second time....

This 2016 documentary, Kedi (Feline), is all about the cats of Is

Yet another well-acted drama from the UK, George Gently gives us Martin Shaw as Inspector George Gently, accompanied by his youn...

I haven't seen this Gus Van Sant movie, and John Callahan, the person who is the subject of the movie, did not have MS, but some...

IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (2007)It is 2004, and in Tennessee, Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), who was once an MP in the military, is notifie...

ME BEFORE YOU (2016)In some ways this movie goes a  long way towards clearing up some misconceptions about the nature of quadrip...

 This movie was made in the USSR, and the characters call one another "comrade."  As used here, the word seems to be used more a...

According to BBC News (August 25), 177 film critics worldwide have been polled about the best movies of the century. The results...