The Savory Tort

Twenty-eight-year-old heartthrob Timothée Chalamet , known best to me on the big screen as Roald Dahl 's Willy Wonka and Dune 's Pa...

My friend and colleague Helen J. Knowles-Gardner , formerly a political science professor and now research director at the Institute for Fr...

Uganda has its first ever Oscar-nominated film, a documentary about political persecution and daring resistance to the Museveni regime. Bobi...

© Cyprian Liske; used by permission. My friend and scholar-translator Cyprian Liske has prepared a Polish translation (image) of W.B. Yeats...

Released by Netflix in October 2022, Wendell & Wild is a delightful stop-motion horror animation and none-too-subtle commentary on the...

Worth , a dramatization of Kenneth Feinberg's special mastership of the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, dropped on Netflix today...

Last week, my daughter was awarded a well earned bachelor of fine arts degree by the film and television program at the Savannah College o...

From our dining room table, a chocolate bunny left over from the weekend is staring me down.  Two things are keeping me from biting off its ...

Prepping the spring semester when classes start the day after an involuntary furlough is prone to put a particular professor perpetually a ...

William Shatner, 2016 ( Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0 ) I'm a pretty big William Shatner fan.  James T. Kirk was my favorite TV captain...

Are you in need of a Stranger Things fix? Season 4 resumed filming a couple of weeks ago. In the meantime, Netflix's Vampires vs. the B...

Actor, model, and District Attorney Lucas Babin (Steve Stewart CC BY 4.0 ) A Tyler County, Texas, grand jury has indicted Netflix for lewd ...

Thanks to the Duke (University) Screen/Society , yesterday, I virtually attended a screening and discussion of the 2020 film from Vertical E...

Last year, my daughter, Morgan Steele , worked as a script supervisor on a short film in Sicily.  Our Side (2020), directed by Nicola Rinci...

My new doorbell cam spies a ne'er-do-well. Quote of the Week:   "Murder hornets, but with the right lawyer, manslaughter bees...

April snow (RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 ) My plan-B return to Africa in June was just canceled.   I kind of expected that.   Here in ...