FX surprised many today by announcing that the next season of “American Crime Story” would focus on the Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton scandal.

Sexual self-discovery is at the rendez-vous in Celine Sciamma’s “Portrait of A Lady on Fire,” a sumptuously made 121 minute triumph which simmers with slow-burn until it breaks your heart ten-fold.

Back in July, I had, hesitatingly, posted four individual reactions to a “Little Women” L.A. test-screening.

There are plenty of noteworthy selections again this year as the NYFF, in conjunction with the Lincoln Center, have announced their full slate of 30+ films for this year’s edition.

In an interview with Total Film magazine (via Bloody Disgusting), “It: Chapter Two” director Andy Muschietti claims a portion of the upcoming sequel’s budget had to do with de-aging the child actors who appeared in the 2017 first installment.

Things are heating up when it comes to Martin Scorsese’s much-anticipated “The Irishman.”

The late Agnès Varda, legendary nouvelle vague filmmaker (“Cleo From 5 to 7, “ “Vagabond,“ “Faces Places”) passed away just a few months ago, but managed to leave us with one final statement.

TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey has built up a little more buzz for Joaquin Phoenix's 'Joker,' Michael B. Jordan's 'Just Mercy' and Renee Zellweger as 'Judy'.

DA Pennebaker, the Academy Award-nominated director of some of the most groundbreaking documentaries in cinematic history, whose career encompassed more than 50 years and 60 films, has died at the age of 94.

Kevin Spacey needs to act. It’s his drug. He was hooked on acting for close to four decades before he was stripped of that right due to #MeToo allegations brought forth against him two years ago.

Leos Carax. You have to give credit to this wildly imaginative filmmaker. He’s allergic to formula and refuses to adhere to the norm.

Guillermo del Toro hasn’t made a movie since 2017’s Oscar-winning “The Shape of Water.”

One of my absolute favorite quotes from late great New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael was how great movies are rarely perfect.

In the ‘80s and ‘90s the erotic thriller was all the rage. It’s a genre that is all but dead now. I mentioned in my Sex Disappearing From Big Screen? article that I had been “seeing the decline of eroticism and sexuality for a few years now at the movies.”

Oh, Italy. As beautiful as that country is, it still refuses to adhere to a lot of the “woke” mentality leaking into many Western countries, especially the United States.