While my memory tells me that I moderately enjoyed the previous three installments of the Kung Fu Panda franchise, I couldn’t tell you a blessed thing about their plots. I […]

By all accounts, the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a fairly faithful one, so if that’s all you care […]

In the mid-1980s, Nike’s basketball shoe division was doing so poorly compared to Adidas and Converse that the company almost shut it down completely. They were struggling to find a […]

Without even realizing it, I have come to truly love the works of filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball; Beyond the Lights; The Old Guard), but nothing quite prepared me […]

After working almost exclusively for several years on the first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies (as well as contributing in no small part to the last couple Avengers movies […]

If you asked me who my favorite playwright of all time is, I wouldn’t hesitate to answer August Wilson. I was living in New York City in 1990 when I […]

Jim Gaffigan has no fewer than nine credits to his name for 2019, from the beautifully rendered Light From Light to a voice role in Playmobil: The Movie, one of the year’s […]

Widows is about a great many things, only one of which is a group of women, all of whom have lost their husbands during the commission of a joint robbery […]

The 54th Chicago International Film Festival begins on October 10, and marks a milestone for the organization that claims the title of the country’s longest continuously-running competitive film festival: it’s […]

I’m not sure if it’s the best news or the worst that no one to date has turned a play written by the late August Wilson into a movie for […]