Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. This week, The Times published a series of articles looking at possible different futures ...

The classic comedy M*A*S*H had one of the most impressive runs of any TV series. The show, which starred Alan Alda and Wayne Rogers as Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John, two surgeons stationed at the ...

Robert Altman was strongly opinionated when it came to cinema, and he absolutely despised one of James Cameron's most popular ...

Sometimes the oral biography format delivers big time. Such is the case with Mitchell Zuckoff’s marvelous, epic, tapestry-like life-scape of Robert Altman. The book itself resembles any number of ...

"Diving off the deep end" / Rick Armstrong -- Working with Robert Altman / Michael Murphy -- The hypertext of Short cuts : the jazz in Altman's Carver soup / Krin Gabbard -- "Doing some replacin'" : ...

All you need to know about the woes of the streaming and digital distribution era is that Short Cuts, a signature yet overlooked film by the great Robert Altman, is unavailable to be legally streamed ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. In cinema, a director’s control can show up in oppositional ...