Jan 07 2026
Spanish-language cinema stretches across continents, cultures, political histories, and radically different filmmaking traditions. A movie made in Franco-era Spain may have little in common with one from revolutionary Cuba, 1970s Chile, contemporary Argentina, rural Peru, or Mexico City—yet together these films form one of the richest bodies of cinema in the world. Directors working in …
Dec 30 2025
The beginning of a new year has a way of making possibility feel a little closer. A fresh calendar invites us to imagine what we would like to welcome into our lives, what we are ready to leave behind, and how we might move through the months ahead with greater purpose. While resolutions often focus …
Dec 29 2025
When midnight approaches on December 31, people around the world welcome the New Year with much more than countdowns and fireworks. For generations, families and communities have marked the transition with foods, colors, gifts, rituals, and playful superstitions intended to invite prosperity, health, happiness, travel, love, or simply a fresh beginning. Some customs are centuries …
Dec 28 2025
New Year’s Eve has everything a movie needs: anticipation, crowded parties, unexpected reunions, romantic possibilities, regrets about the year that is ending, and the irresistible feeling that life might somehow look different when the clock strikes twelve. It is no wonder filmmakers have returned to December 31 again and again. Some movies unfold almost entirely …
Dec 25 2025
Crisp on the outside, wonderfully airy inside, and delicate enough to seem almost weightless, homemade meringue cookies are one of those desserts that look far more complicated than they actually are. The ingredient list could hardly be simpler. Egg whites and sugar form the foundation, while cream of tartar helps stabilize the whipped whites and …
Dec 23 2025
On December 23, 1962, Trần Anh Hùng was born in Đà Nẵng, South Vietnam. Over the decades that followed, he would become one of the most internationally acclaimed filmmakers of Vietnamese origin, creating an unusually elegant body of work in which food, memory, desire, family, silence, landscape, and the smallest gestures of everyday life can …
Dec 20 2025
Every December, millions of families perform a ritual that would look rather strange if we had not grown up with it. We bring an evergreen tree indoors, cover its branches with lights and ornaments, place gifts underneath it, and make it the glowing centerpiece of Christmas. The Christmas tree feels timeless, but the familiar decorated …
Dec 20 2025
There is something unmistakable about the winter solstice. Even before we look at a calendar, the season announces itself through long shadows, early sunsets, cold evenings, and mornings that seem reluctant to brighten. Then, near the end of December in the Northern Hemisphere, the shortening days finally reach their limit. The winter solstice has arrived. …
Dec 19 2025
Few cookies look more at home on a Christmas cookie tray than snowball cookies. Round, buttery, and completely covered in powdered sugar, they really do look like miniature snowballs tucked among the gingerbread, chocolate cookies, and other holiday treats. Beneath that snowy coating is a tender shortbread-style cookie filled with vanilla and finely chopped pecans …
Dec 18 2025
Christmas music does not always have to arrive with jingling bells, booming choirs, and songs energetic enough to send everyone rushing toward the dance floor. Some of the loveliest holiday music is quiet enough to accompany a snowy afternoon, an evening beside the Christmas tree, or those rare December moments when there is nowhere else …
