Cinematic Considerations Five weeks from now, the true power of an expanding international voting segment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be tested. In the aftermath of increasing efforts to diversify its membership, the academy has seen a push in recent years away from tradi...

Cinematic Considerations There’s a scene in the opening moments of writer/director Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” that announces the arrival of another great American epic. Adrian Brody portraying a Jewish-Hungarian Jewish refugee and Holocaust survivor looks at his surroundings on a ship that revea...

Cinematic Considerations Over the past several decades, there has been a sharp and steady decline in what is often known as docudrama, historically-based cinema that is fiction in a loose sense. These movies capture and chronicle moments in time in ways that transport audiences to other worlds or se...

Cinematic Considerations Evoking films like “Dirty Harry” and “The Untouchables,” “The Order” follows a weathered, grizzled FBI agent in the mid 1980s...

Cinematic Considerations Since 2001, shortly after his “Gladiator” won the Best Picture Academy Award, director Ridley Scott has been engaged in the p...

Cinematic Considerations Unless they’ve been living under a rock for the better part of two decades, pop culture fans will certainly know the latest B...