When John Magaro was eyeballing acting as a living and soaking up ’70s movies in college, Dustin Hoffman’s career looked awfully inspiring. So when “September 5” came along with the role of real-life TV producer Geoffrey Mason, an instrumental figure in ABC Sports’ groundbreaking spot-news coverage of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics terrorist attack, reading the script gave Magaro a …
Celine Song’s beautiful debut film, Past Lives, which Slate’s Sam Adams called “2023’s first great movie,” opens on a trio at a bar: an Asian man and an Asian woman talking avidly, and a white man sitting off to the side, evidently the third wheel. It all comes to a head in a remarkable scene between Nora and Arthur in …
