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Best Picture Potential: ‘One Battle After Another’ Delivers Relevance and Style

When released in October, the movie seemed like a relatively distant dystopia. But within the first month of 2026, it seemed uncomfortably relevant.

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Talking Transportation: From Hartford to New York City by Night Boat

Two centuries ago, travelers from Hartford to New York relied on riverboats rather than highways or trains. It was a slow but scenic journey down the Connecticut River.

LymeLine Rolls Out Oscars Coverage With ‘Train Dreams’ Review

Movie Man Kevin Ganey reflects on "Train Dreams," a Netflix film about American expansion, wilderness, and one man’s search for meaning.

Talking Transportation: The DMV Is Judging You

Six characters may not seem dangerous, but in the wrong order your choice of vanity plates may pose a serious threat to public morality. Or so says the DMV.

Talking Transportation: Snow, Salt and Unplugged Promises

Columnist Jim Cameron, calling snowstorms a test of Connecticut’s transportation system, gives high marks for highway clearing while faulting local streets and rail platforms.

Talking Transportation: Winter Travel Tips to Beat Cold, Snow – and Connecticut’s Roads and Rails

Jim Cameron delivers helpful tips, fun facts and one piece of particularly timely advice: Sometimes the smartest winter travel decision is not traveling at all.

Talking Transportation: Big Brother, Facial Recognition and AI

The future is here, and it's shopping with us. Jim Cameron takes a skeptical look at where convenience ends and surveillance begins.

Talking Transportation: Strawberries in January and Other Climate Impacts

How fruit and vegetables make their way to our supermarkets is not only a tale of botany, but of logistics and long-distance transportation at some cost to our environment.

Talking Transportation: Who’s Running This Railroad?

Jim Cameron explains "the bizarre patchwork of ownership and responsibility" that makes the state’s railroads possible.

The Movie Man: ‘Fire and Ash’ a Must-See Addition to the ‘Avatar’ Franchise

Movie critic Kevin Ganey recommended viewing the film at an IMAX theater, where “butt-kicker” speakers under the seats amplify the bass sounds so viewers can feel the explosions.