Filmmaker Nia DaCosta is not one to shy away from taking risks. She broke into the mainstream in 2021 with her updated take on the horror classic Candyman, before quickly […]

Across its first weekend (Saturday, October 18, and Sunday, October 19) the Chicago International Film Festival features several highly anticipated films with some of the year’s best performances; here are […]

The Listener is something like a combination of a filmed, one-woman stage play and an acting exercise, directed by Steve Buscemi and written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Alessandro Camon (The Messenger).  The […]

Sometimes you get advanced notice on an interview that gives you weeks to prepare and fine-tune your questions; sometimes, you get about 24 hours notice to see the movie, prep […]

For the first two movies in what is now a trilogy of Creed films about boxer Adonis Creed (played by a distractingly ripped Michael B. Jordan), son of fictional Rocky […]

I won’t waste your time comparing Thor: Ragnarok to the latest tale of the God of Thunder, Thor: Love and Thunder, because to do so would be to imply that […]

London-born Rebecca Hall has long been on my list of the most talented actors working today. In fact, I maintain that her 2016 portrayal of reporter Christine Chubbuck in the […]

The Men In Black movies don’t make up a particularly good franchise. The first film from 1997 was a terrific original idea about the hide-in-plain-sight tactics of a secret organization […]

Perhaps a lesser film than its predecessor but still quite good, Creed II is more like the Rocky movies we remember. It grasps on more desperately to boxing movie conventions […]

As much as many have written stories about how Sorry To Bother You writer/director Boots Riley “hacked” the Hollywood system to get his debut film made, the truth is he […]

If you’ve been paying any kind of attention to films about the black experience in present-day America, you’ve probably figured out that the city of Oakland plays a central role […]