Thriving culture, fabulous food and amazing sights prove a thriving life in Quito.

As the residence to hundreds of bird species plus other forms of wildlife, Ecuador proves a wonderful place to wallow in beauty and nature.

The Residence detective couldn't find her nemesis bird in Ecuador but we did

Drama adds depth, but the movie’s key lure remains the catchy tunes penned by Neil Diamond

2025 Top Film Works-Las Vegas Film Critics Society Arriving later than many groups, Nevada’s film critics had more time to log in viewing opportunities—but as it turns out, 2025 features more consensus than usual. While my own votes (+) with the LVFCS don’t fully tally with the final list (*), we overlap on more than half.   Best Picture Train Dreams Frankenstein Sinners Marty Supreme *+ One Battle After Another Best Actor *Timothée Chalamet - Marty Supreme Joel Edgerton - Tr

Club scenes provide the movie’s humor, while action off stage offers wistful perceptions on how humans interact after years together—not just as a couple but as people with a circle of friends.

Hamnet @KUNR Those unfamiliar with the line “To be or not to be” or who never heard of this guy William Shakespeare might find Hamnet  a bit slow and puzzling. However, the playwright’s many fans can revel in a project that not only recreates an era but adds different insights to his formation and staging of Hamlet .  Based on a best-selling historical fiction novel by Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet  focuses on Shakespeare’s wife, theorizing that the woman known as Anne Hathaway

The filmed play responds well to set and musical limitations, benefitting from the chance for cameras to roll in and catch subtle expressions from actors

With an experimental tone that creates visual interest, the project draws attention to matters that many prefer to avoid thinking about despite their vital relevance to everyday life.  

Words play an important part in Train Dreams, with details clarified through narration by Will Patten, his calming voice enhancing the project’s poetic sensibility

Nouvelle Vague remains a superbly-made treat for cinephiles, Francophiles, and up-and-coming movie makers needing reassurance that breaking rules can succeed—at least under the right circumstances.

Galapagos: The Far Side of the World - YouTube On screen, strange sights struck a fictional doctor in Master and Commander when he reached the Far Side of the World  and viewed Galapagos with it’s array of oddball creatures. The doctor predates Charles Darwin who in reality made that same stop a few years later and reached conclusions of Biblical proportions as covered in the movie Creation . The following decades brought other travelers whose adventures hit the screen, incl

Its social themes give the film a self-aware respectability, though del Toro happily slides into the kind of grand guignol events that spin Frankenstein into the horror category.

the movie Nuremberg serves as a timely reminder about the capacity for sane nations to go crazy

An absorbing story that blends epic action with serious thoughts about changing a society where racism, sexism, and classism play such big roles.

Thompson jumps into the role full force

Playing the title character of Eleanor the Great, June Squibb commands the screen like a fairy godmother waving her wand.

Taut, well-made, and emotionally sound, Keep Quiet deserves to make some noise.

Last Tango in Paris showed Marlon as a bad dance partner but Waltzing with Brando says he made some good moves.

Long ago I walked out of a theater after a midnight screening feeling like I just stayed awake through a nightmare, never imagining that decades down the line a documentary about that same movie would resonate with my sense of cinematic history. One of the documentary’s interview subjects, actor and comedian Patton Oswalt, jokes about the film in a routine claiming it has the best and most accurate title ever: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre .  “When you hear that title in your b