Movies

BETHLEHEM – ArtsQuest will host The Greater Lehigh Valley Filmmaker Festival on Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March 22, at the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas, located in the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks.

Romance is dead — or so they say if you are living in the greater Washington State area of the country. For the past few years, a killer with red heart eyes is lurking around killing young couples on Valentine’s Day if they are caught showing affection in public. Sure sounds to me like somebody has a bone to pick with St. Cupid!

In my three years now writing for the Times Leader, I have only focused and written reviews on two documentary films.

This year’s crop of Best Picture nominees is an interesting bunch, from international films to heavy dissections of the American Dream. Rather than describing them vaguely, let’s take a look at each of this year’s nominees, ranked from worst to first.

In this sixteenth and penultimate part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating the two best winners released during my lifetime, and three films featuring iconic movie villains.

In this thirteenth part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating Alfred Hitchcock’s Best Picture winner, a film close to the hearts of Pennsylvanians, and the highest grossing movie of all-time.

In this twelfth part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating films with wildly different settings — from the trenches to the suburbs to the multiverse.

In this eleventh part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating five films with big cinematic appeal, and a small scale classic that made a legend of its budding star.

I’ve always been very polite to my Alexa, ya know, just in case.