One day, you’re showing an interesting foreign film at an art museum. The very next day, you see that movie get nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award. This actually happened to me a few weeks back when a little bit of Seoul came to Flint.

You know you’re getting old when what’s playing on “Oldies Radio” are tunes fresh from your 30s and 40s.

Why in the name of Jar Jar Binks am I not more excited about “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”?

At this writing, I am still able to count the hours since I sat through “Joker.” The experience was somewhere between impressive and appalling. Both, really.

Where do filmmakers get their story ideas? Sometimes, from places you might not know about.

This summer, the movies – or at least the ones I seemed to enjoy the most – made me feel nostalgic.

A comeback for Aretha Franklin? The singing great from Detroit died in August 2018, but the movie about her that she did not want you to see is new in theaters – including one in Flint.

As the movie season at the Flint Institute of Arts winds down (and it does every spring), it takes time to catch up on some of the Academy Award-nominated work that you might have missed in commercial theaters or via streaming services.

They used to be called “selected short subjects” on theater marquees. Now, unless you’re a regular watcher of those vintage comedies, variety acts and travelogues that air between full-length movies on TCM – or if you seek out those new, eight-minute-or-so cartoons shown before certain first-run animated features – there aren’t many theatrical short pictures out there. But not every movie has to run an hour and a half.