Updated 12/13/2025

Up at Critics at Large: thinking about Sinéad O’Connor, her classic album, her painful public life, and her notorious Saturday Night Live...

My fifty-years-on appreciation of Forever Changes, the pixilated masterpiece of Arthur Lee and Love, is up at Critics at Large.

Today at Critics at Large, my review of Nicholas Jennings's Lightfoot, concerning the balladeer who maintained just the right emotional...

My review of David Thomson’s Television: A Biography, concerning the medium described by Norman Mailer as “a small and modest malignancy,...

My review of Mary V. Dearborn's Ernest Hemingway: A Biography, concerning perhaps the greatest American writer of the 20th century.

The Austrian Film Museum in Vienna just commenced a Henry Fonda retrospective, which will run through mid-October. Among the 25 Fonda...

Up today at Critics at Large: my take on Nicolas Roeg's often maligned Bad Timing.

On the occasion of Glen Campbell's passing, a tribute. And to complete a kind of circle: here is something I wrote about him three years...

My contribution to KLUTE YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a new and already fascinating series on the neo-noir films of the Sixties (1964-73), appears at...

The nice folks at Jesus Christ Superstar Zone, a top fan site, asked to interview me about Jesusmania! Thanks to co-administrator Gibson...