Tag: movies

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.

Gearing up for the Emmys, 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.

The 1979 summer camp comedy was Bill Murray’s breakout film. It also almost didn’t happen.

The scene was restored, but thanks to Richard Nixon, a song about conservatism was cut from the 1972 movie “1776.”

Is this the end of an era for the brilliant, if reluctant, male movie star?

The film, which turned 20 this week, feels incredibly out of step with our dystopian present.

Robert Kolker walks us through the $400 billion lawsuit brought by the creators of This Is Spinal Tap against the movie studios, but Spinal Tap fans will love the insider tidbits about the creation of the film.

It has stifled suffrage, blamed immigrants for chaos, and suppressed civil rights. It’s also how Donald Trump views the entire world.

Daniel Miller goes behind the scenes to report on the famed red carpet that graces the entrance to the Oscars. What you learn about the care, installation, and true color of this 50,000 square foot rug may just surprise you.

Christopher Orr, film critic for The Atlantic, watched Fifty Shades Darker — the second film in the series based on the super popular Fifty Shades of Gray books — so that you don’t have to.