OPINION | REVIEW: South of the Border
"No Man's Land" feels like a lazy title; the Internet Movie Database lists a couple of hundred films, short films, television series, video games and other entertainment products that have used the ti...
January 22, 2021
OPINION | REVIEW: 'Our Friend'
Gabriela Cowperthwaite first came to public attention in 2013 as the director of the documentary "Blackfish" about an orca -- a killer whale -- that had caused the deaths of three people while in capt...
January 22, 2021
OPINION | NEW MOVIES: 'Rock Camp,' 'Let Him Go' now streaming
When I was in my early 30s, I got an assignment to spend a couple of days in the minor league spring training camp of the California Angels. (I was writing about two young Russian players, the first e...
January 22, 2021
OPINION | ON FILM: More top 10 movies for 2020 from film reviewer
For the past decade or so, we've ushered in the new year with reflections on the just past year in movies by friends of the section -- critics, cinephiles and filmmakers with Arkansas connections. Thi...
January 22, 2021
OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: An ordinary murder
The prime minister and his wife decide to take the subway to the cinema on a Friday evening.
They stand on the Old Town platform along with the citizens, some of whom shyly nod in their direction. A ...
January 19, 2021
OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Biden should pardon Trump
If I'm Joe Biden, the first thing I do after I'm inaugurated is offer to pardon Donald Trump.
There are good reasons for doing this, the first being that any federal investigation, indictment and/or ...
January 17, 2021
OPINION | SPIRITS: Alcohol as a crutch for a broken leg
One of the best movies of 2020 is "Another Round" by Thomas Vinterberg. Its Danish title is "Druk" which translates as "binge drinking" and seems more to the point.
A tender and at times beautiful me...
January 17, 2021
OPINION | ON BOOKS: Writer/singer tells his story in 'the Voice'
John Colapinto was a singer.
A self-taught amateur. He was probably pretty good, or at least he probably had an interesting quality in his voice because he was drafted to be the lead singer in the Ro...
January 17, 2021
OPINION | REVIEW: 'MLK/FBI'
There was a time when most Americans would have regarded J. Edgar Hoover a hero. They would have been skeptical, at best, about Martin Luther King Jr.
Of course, we're talking about white Americans h...
January 15, 2021
Two 'Tigers' streaming worth seeing
I'm watching "Tiger," the two-part six-hour Tiger Woods documentary on HBO.
It's fascinating. I'm impressed by how well it's made and the quality of the insight some of the interviewees provide. I lo...
January 15, 2021
2020 hindsight: Keith Garlington's top 10 list
For the past decade or so, we've ushered in the new year with reflections on the just past year in movies by friends of the section -- critics, cinephiles and filmmakers with Arkansas connections. Thi...
January 15, 2021
OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Borrowed bullhorns
Some of you need a civics refresher.
The First Amendment only protects your speech from government censorship. That's federal, state and local authorities to whom you pay taxes. It's got nothing to d...
January 12, 2021
OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Never liked the guy
I never really liked the guy who was in the news all the time a few years back. What's his name again? Trump?
Yeah, that's it. Something Trump. It's one of those Dickensian names, like the sound you'...
January 10, 2021
OPINION | CRITICAL MASS: A diminished chord — The story of the Bee Gees
Dwang. Dwang. Dwang. Dwang. Dwang. Dwang.
Six dwangs. Four seconds.
It's an A minor chord that sounds slightly out of tune and thinly metallic. It's a primitive, janky sound voiced in open D tuning,...
January 10, 2021
OPINION | NEW MOVIES: TV's 'Herself'; 'Miami,' 'Stars' viewable now
The Movie of the Week was a mid-'60s-'80s phenomenon comprised of made-for-TV films that in 90 minutes (two hours with commercials) resolve a fictional narrative centered on an actual (or perceived as...
January 8, 2021