“Patrick is probably the most extraordinary person I’ve met.” — Jane Goodall The above quote was made about Patrick McCollum, whose list of jobs, experiences, and titles is not only lengthy, […]
I sometimes think about the shrinking of our world. Each leap in transportation—trains, cars, planes—has made trips shorter and less significant, sapping our sense of wonder. Werner Herzog once said, […]
On the heels of Music Box Theatre’s popular annual Halloween programming, Music Box of Horrors, the theater announced this week a new partnership to bring Los Angeles’ Beyond Fest to […]
Less a pure boxing film and more a tragic biopic with a hopeful ending, Christy chronicles the story of Christy Martin (Sydney Sweeney, looking almost unrecognizable in early scenes), who […]
Writer/director Guillermo del Toro has had a vision for his telling of author Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for a couple of decades—not just the makeup and production design but also what […]
Sometimes you read history, and other times you have history read to you. And the new film from writer/director James Vanderbilt (the established writer and producer whose only other directing […]
At this point, it should become the law of the land that filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) is the only one allowed to make Predator sequels. With the streaming-only […]
Because she was born in West Virginia and was the daughter of an actual coal miner, groundbreaking boxer Christy Martin was nicknamed the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” in the early part […]
I’ve come to realize recently that action movies or thrillers set in extremely cold temperatures are so much better than ones set in warmer environments. I don’t know if it’s […]
There are different kinds of crime families. There are the ones we’re more familiar with who live in big cities, dress to the nines, and influence everything from the police […]
Capturing on film a high-stakes gambler’s inner workings, let alone a degenerate gambler with seemingly no bottom in which to bottom out, is tough for any filmmaker—and many have tried. […]
Winner of the 2025 Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival’s top honor, It Was Just an Accident is the latest from Iranian writer/director Jafar Panahi (who previously won the award for […]