Chile had its own version of September 11, a national tragedy that scars the country to this day. On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led the Chilean armed forces in a coup d’etat […]
Sometimes, a gifted director, a shorter runtime, and a unstoppable period soundtrack is all you need to pivot a franchise in the right direction. For the Transformers universe, the previous […]
From directors Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed, the documentary All Man: The International Male Story tells the decades-long, trend-setting story of a male-centric clothing catalog that turned into one […]
The beloved institution of the drive-in theater celebrates its 90th anniversary on National Drive-In Day, Tuesday, June 6, the exact day in 1933 when Richard Hollingshead invented the format in […]
Marking the directorial debut for French-Canadian actor Charlotte Le Bon (The Walk, Mood Indigo), Falcon Lake is based on the graphic novel Une Soeur by Bastien Vivès, which concerns two teenagers, Bastien and Chloé (Joseph […]
Based on the book by LeBron James and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Buzz Bissinger (Friday Night Lights), the docudrama Shooting Stars tells what is essentially the origin story of James’ rise […]
Part adaptation of and sequel to the Stephen King-penned short story of the same name, The Boogeyman takes the confessional approach of the written plot (a distraught patient talking to […]
To many, the 2018 animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the finest of all Spider-Man movies (and there are many to choose from), with its frenetic energy, mixed-media animation style, […]
Sometime during 2006, I was asked to moderate a couple Q&A screenings of the documentary Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland, a […]
Director Ric Roman Waugh had nearly 50 projects under his belt as a stuntman and stunt coordinator before turning to directing (much like his brother, director Scott Waugh). After a […]
When Kendall (Jeremy Strong) gets up to speak at his father’s funeral in “Church and State,” there’s a sense that he could say anything. The relationship between Kendall and Logan […]
Coming into the new HBO production Reality, I had virtually no idea what this tense little slice of reality was about, or that it was essentially a re-creation of one […]