Cinema Romantico

My full-time devotion to college basketball has been dwindling for years, but it bottomed out this season. Due to a confluence of the Winter...

“Time doesn’t exist, yet it controls us anyway.” – Comrade Josh, One Battle After Another What, exactly, do we want from the Academy Award f...

A few months ago, My Beautiful, Perspicacious Wife and I started watching “Shrinking,” the Apple TV show in which Harrison Ford plays Dr. Pa...

The last Italian Winter Games 20 years ago in Turin were the worst Olympics of my Olympics-obsessed life. This had nothing to do with the Ga...

If it felt like the biggest moment in the 2025 college football season when it happened, in retrospect, it was even bigger, the one preservi...

If the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics were the best Olympic Games of my lifetime , the viewing experience was still not quite perfect, at least ...

November 19, 2005: USC - 50 Fresno State - 42 Why did the Heisman Trophy become the preeminent individual award in college football? Was it ...

In a 2023 CNN interview , Michelle Zauner was asked by Chris Wallace to explain the origin of her band name Japanese Breakfast. After all, Z...

In Garrison Keillor’s 2001 novel “Love Me,” a best-selling author takes a job at The New Yorker only to be undermined with a severe case of ...