Peter Tonguette

The new Disney-Pixar movie Toy Story 5 is less a cartoon than a brief for better parenting practices, and those parenting practices include children hanging onto their toys for as long as possible.

By Peter Tonguette From “Easy Rider” (1969) to “Taxi Driver” (1976), “The Last Picture Show” (1971) to “The Godfather” (1972), the movies

While watching the ostentatiously trashy new movie Supergirl , I could not help but think how the mighty have fallen. Or should I say, how the mediocre have fallen?

In a crowded movie theater, the man next to you may have interviewed the stars on the screen.

Among the signs of civilizational collapse are sinking fertility rates , a culture that promotes the postponement or abandonment of the pursuit of

The trouble with Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey starts with the casting of Matt Damon as Odysseus.

Is there something to be said for enforced stillness?

Who would have guessed that an Italian film made in 1957, starring one icon of that nation's cinema (Marcello Mastroianni) and directed by

As the credits roll, the ticket-buyers reenter the world.

I did not grow up in a large family—I count among my relations one sibling and a handful of cousins—and certainly not in a blended family: My dear parents were married once, to each other, for 44 years, until my father died in 2010. My mother never remarried. Yet when I recall my childhood and adolescence, I am struck by the sheer clamor that rings in my ears: the talk, the chatter, the ding of kitchen pots and pans, the crash of the backdoor. My father's whistle upon coming home from a business trip; my mother's laugh when she saw something funny on TV.