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Palm Springs Film Review: Sealed Cargo

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Bolivia's Oscar submission is a buoyant seriocomedy about a top-secret train that turns into a national scandal. Billed as fact-based fiction, “Sealed Cargo” manages to eke an awful lot of fun and heart out of the unappetizing notion of police trying to sneak imported toxic sludge into a rural dump site. Read More...

Sharon Horgan on Ending Catastrophe With Love, But Without Sentimentality

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Sharon Horgan. Sharon Horgan and I are sitting at what is perhaps the most poorly designed table known to man. “Bonkers table,” she observes. “Such a crazy table.” It’s circular, with the slightest incline toward the center — not so much table, really, as it is a very small hill that’s threatening to send her lamb meatballs and tomato salad sliding directly onto her lap at any given moment. Read More...