A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant examines the life and career of political cartoonist Pat Oliphant, an Australian artist by birth known primarily for his critiques of American presidents and world events which were published by a wide variety of newspapers over the years including The Denver Post, The Washington Star, and The New York Times.
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Set around the final baseball game to be played at Soldiers Field in Douglas, Massachusetts before the field is to be demolished to make way for a new middle school, Eephus offers a look at the relationships of a group of mostly middle-aged men (many of who have been playing weekend baseball for decades). Eephus is part hang-out film, with the various conversations, disputes, and antics both on and off the field, and part nostalgic longing for a world being pushed aside by the passage of time.
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For the subject of his documentary, director Andres Veiel turns his camera on the complicated figure of German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl who rose to prominence during the rise of Germany’s Third Reich. Regarded as an innovator in the art of filmmaking, Riefenstahl’s friendships with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, along with her work in help create and style Nazi propaganda films, creates a controversial legacy to parse.
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The 2025 film adapts the 1890s play setting it in the 1950s by casting Tessa Thompson in the starring role of Hedda Gabler, a once vibrant woman now stuck in a marriage and a house she has no love for and the key cog in a party full of mostly insufferable socialites being awful to each other for most of the 107-minute runtime.
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85 years after its release director Howard Hawks‘ classic screwball comedy is still something to behold. It’s rapid dialogue and wit were in part achieved by the director pushing his actors to be spontaneous on the fly leading to rampant improvisation and the film to go over time and over budget. That, along with sound mixing to further speed up the dialogue, resulted in stars Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell spitting barbs at each other non-stop for near the entire length of the film.
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