by Sean Palmer | Jun 16, 2026 | Opinion
Steven Spielberg has spent fifty years looking at the sky. Close Encounters of the Third Kind looked up in wonder. E.T. looked up in longing. War of the Worlds looked up in terror. Disclosure Day, Spielberg’s latest film, looks up and then, almost immediately, looks...
by Sean Palmer | Jun 2, 2026 | Opinion
AI is a powerful tool. I use it to brainstorm, plan my week, and find it to be a fabulous research assistant. I do not pretend otherwise, and I do not feel the need to apologize for it. The tool is useful. It gives me back hours I would rather spend with my wife, or...
by Sean Palmer | May 20, 2026 | Opinion
A small speckled creature in The Sheep Detectives shows up early and stays with you longer than the murder mystery does. The film calls him the Winter Lamb. He was born outside the cozy season of spring when most sheep are born, and for that small offense of timing,...
by Sean Palmer | May 6, 2026 | Opinion
Cinephiles like me are giddy that more people are returning to movie theatres. Yes, we’d be even happier if more people remembered they were in public and didn’t show up in their pajamas and toting loads of blankets as they try to recreate their living rooms,...
by Sean Palmer | Mar 20, 2026 | Opinion
Paul Thomas Anderson took home six Oscars for One Battle After Another at this year’s Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Backstage, he tried to explain what he’d made. “Our film obviously has a certain amount of parallels to what’s happening in the news every...
