The blues singers like to say that if it wasn’t for bad luck, they’d have no luck at all. Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two denizens of a cut-rate nursing home, might as well be singing those blues ...

Being sick was all fun and games when you were 6 but when you’re an adult people just stand at the bedroom door, wearing a face mask, peer in and ask “Are you dead or just sleeping?” ...

My partner and I are both sober. For Valentine's Day, we're having dinner and going dancing, and it'll be even more fun ...

The director Charles Burnett’s deeply humane, singular film from 1999, starring James Earl Jones, is finally receiving a theatrical release.