A Hero, the new movie from Asghar Farhadi, is now in general release and we saw it the first day that the evil empire made it available for streaming. We had been eagerly awaiting this opportunity for some time: the film won the Grand Prize at Cannes, has been showered with rave reviews, and, most…
It’s January out there, which means that many with a melancholy streak tend to note, with some existential ennui, the implications of the calendar’s turning page. (Pink Floyd’s “Time” offers the definitive expression of such sentiments, but that’s so gloomy we won’t even provide a link—here’s a little Dougie MacLean instead.) For cinephiles, however, passage…