Tag: movies

“And thus another Hollywood tradition was born: film choruses belting out perfectly nonsensical prose with utter conviction.”

“Gilliam does believe that the end of society may soon be upon us. The question for him is: What shape will the new one take?”

My favorite director, Lynn Shelton, died suddenly this month at the age of 54. Did the spirit of indie filmmaking go with her?

Give me a Bolaño novel that starts with a guy walking into a bar, and then another guy starts telling him a story, and the rest of that novel is just the second guy telling that story.

A selection of 25 successful article-to-film adaptations that made it all the way to the box office.

The muted response to Todd Haynes’s “Dark Waters” is depressingly similar to our culture’s muted response to climate change

Dipti S. Barot pays homage to the two irreplaceable voices who informed her love of good movies.

Korean director Bong Joon-ho on his new film, Parasite

The movie theater was once a kind of lay church, with festivals like TIFF serving as annual religious holidays — until new houses of worship opened online.

Michael Musto looks back at some of the best, worst, and weirdest instances of performers expressing gratitude as they received their shiny trophies.

With ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,’ Quentin Tarantino slakes his thirst for nostalgia while he plays god with another piece of history.

Sarah Watts details how science fiction shaped her family, her religion, and her own self-image.

What/If references the celebrated steamy genre of the 80s and 90s, but lacks its guts. Why can’t any of the new neo-noirs go all the way?

Michael Musto sings the praises of his favorite cinematic clunkers.

Journalism now is a lot more fear and insecurity and a lot less corduroy and Robert Redford, but you’d never know it from what is projected.

At Vanity Fair, film critic K. Austin Collins explores the shaky “true story” of Green Book, the film by Peter Farrelly starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.

Maybe with Creed II, a black actor will get the Oscar nod instead of the one white guy.

Countless women have been mistreated ever since sex became common on our screens. Hollywood’s newfound awareness of intimacy choreography can help change things.

Nic and his father David Sheff’s memoirs about grappling with Nic’s addiction are the basis for the new movie ‘Beautiful Boy.’ It was important to them that the movie communicate what addiction really is — an illness.

Bradley Cooper’s new film is ultimately about the way commerce can ruin art, which is why he won’t answer the personal questions Taffy Brodesser-Akner asked him.

Sometimes, the review is better than the film it reviews.

Journalist Donna Minkowitz realizes 25 years later she was victim to her own internalized homophobia and ignorance on trans issues when she broke the story of Brandon Teena, subject of Boys Don’t Cry.

Superheroes they used to stick up for the underdog and punch a lot of Nazis. Now, they fight villains who look a lot like themselves. Who are the baddies now?

Journalists who get screen time are most often men—even when the original story was told by a woman.

How does a young, successful actor become a relatively unknown director of most of the television you watch? And what’s next?

No other film conveys the madness or the fun of deadline journalism.

When it came to gathering refugees, the waiting room of the U.S. consulate was probably the closest thing to Rick’s Café Américain.

Five stories about movies, for your reading pleasure.

The zombie movie is more than an easy scare. It’s also become an essential lens through which we can view society.

Alamo Drafthouse creator Tim League wants to make moviegoing fun again.