The Vargas Blog

Matt Lauer has been axed from NBC News after a secret meeting between the NBC brass and an alleged victim who accused the longtime broad...

Over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, audiences in the United States flocked to theaters to learn what Mexican moviegoers had proven m...

The great Dmitri Hvorostovski , one of opera's great baritones, and a specialist in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi died in London at th...

The sexual allegations snowball has rolled over Charlie Rose , the longtime 75 year-old journalist whose longtime PBS show has featured s...

Coco , the new animated film from the Disney/Pixar Studios aims to bring the dead back to life, in a delightful, colorful fantasy set in ...

The sexual allegation snowball rolled down Hollywood Boulevard with a brute force, trying to survive the L.A. heat, but never losing its h...

As Thor: Ragnarok is poised to have a winning $121 million opening weekend, Marvel might have just hit upon the winning formula for the ...

The Exterminating Angel , Luis Buñuel 's surrealistic dark comedy about a post-opera dinner party where the guests find themselves una...

Thursday was going to be the day when all the documents concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were going to be releas...

As a follow up to my last post, I have added a page to my Casablanca website ( vincasa.com ) celebrating the diamond white anniversary of ...

As part of their BIG SCREEN CLASSICS series, TCM will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of CASABLANCA, by presenting the film for two da...

Was the New York Film Festival this year all it could have been?   It seems that the two weeks came and went, and the amazing fi...

This year's New York Film Festival might be history, but the Film Society of Lincoln Center continues to be in the news.  Yesterday...

The Meyerowitzes of the title in director/screenwriter Noah Baumbach 's new comedy The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) are self...

I was the special guest star on Episode 38 of the X-Squadron podcast .  The main topic of the podcast was the new film Blade Runner 2049 .  ...

We will never know what G.W. Pabst ’s great film Pandora’s Box must have looked like when it was first shown in the late years of the sil...

Thirty-five years since Blade Runner opened to mixed reviews and disappointing box office receipts, a sequel to the sci-fi, dystopian...

I'm looking forward to reading the new Robert Langdon adventure book by Dan Brown .  According to advance reviews, it promises to be ...

In Richard Wagner ’s great work Tristan und Isolde , the lovers in the throes of the most heated passion exchange names. Isolde says she ...

In Zama , director Lucrecia Martel crafts an impossible film out of Antonio Di Benedetto ’s 1956 existential soliloquy of a novel.  Hers ...