Eliza Lamson

Here are a few thoughts on Christmas movies by Metro’s longtime movie critic Richard von Busack, from the archives.

Cinequest 2024 raises spirits in a crazy world. Here are eight films that may or may not make the cut, as well as a sit-down with festival founder Halfdan Hussey.

Forty years and still going strong, the Talking Head's Stop Making Sense entertains audiences all over again.

Cleverly titled Cinequest opener Fresh Kills gets its name from a spot on Staten Island.  ”Kills” is a Dutch word for a riverbed. Until it...

Season 11 of Futurama continues The Simpsons’ co-creator Matt Groening’s brash vaudeville about a trio of working stiffs a couple of eons from now.  Fry...

Barry Allen is the man who can outrun time itself. Bathed in electrified chemicals, he became The Flash, the fastest man alive. Seeing the previews...

Things fall apart. Markets fragment. The critic’s traditional “top 10” list means less in this era of diversified audiences. Audiences are multiverses, each with...

Hillary Clinton's life exemplifies the Goldilocks test, with which all second-wave feminists are familiar: you're always either too this or too that. You can be Secretary of State for four years and still have a male passerby say you need to smile more.