The Great Performances of 2025
The remarkable year for film has already been captured in this feature of the ten best movies of the year, and this one with over 100 works cited on individual…
Read moreThe remarkable year for film has already been captured in this feature of the ten best movies of the year, and this one with over 100 works cited on individual…
Read more“That’s the problem with Rome: ancient history is everywhere.” –Emily, preaching a sermon Last year, when writing about Season 4 of the candy-coated Netflix series, I said, “After almost 4…
Read moreOn Friday, the writers of this site lauded some of their favorite performances of 2025. Today, we go behind the camera to pick some of the great craft of the…
Read moreThe story of horror in 2025 is a story of triumph. In 2025, horror made up 17% of North American ticket sales, up from 4% a decade ago. Similarly, the…
Read moreOn the surface, last year’s Oscar night that celebrated studio filmmaking with 7 richly-deserved Academy Awards won by “Oppenheimer” couldn’t have been more different than this year’s. Contrastingly, the 97th…
Read moreThis year’s Sundance Film Festival featured a number of women’s stories, especially among the documentaries. As one of the earliest films to play at the festival, Shoshannah Stern’s feature debut…
Read morePamela Anderson gives the performance of her career as Shelly in Gia Coppola‘s melancholic drama “The Last Showgirl.” The oldest showgirl in Le Razzle Dazzle, the last revue of its…
Read moreThe world lost one of its greatest musical talents on Thursday when the great Argentinian composer Lalo Schifrin died after complications from pneumonia. The sheer genius of Schifrin was evident…
Read moreThe world’s largest genre film festival, Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival is one of the most exciting, not to mention lengthy (it typically runs two, sometimes nearly three weeks), fests…
Read more“Cease and desist!” A “lawyer” in an ACME t-shirt yelled up at the “Coyote vs. Acme” panel in the biggest room at San Diego Comic-Con, Hall H, the cavernous 6700-seat…
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