The question of movies becoming political has existed since the invention of movies and has been subject to debate. Can escapism co-exist with realism or do movies have to lean in one...
One year after being canceled, the movie world goes back to the Mediterranean for the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival. Spike Lee is the head of the jury and Leos Carax is...
We begin the second half of the year with some more diverse selections going into the Criterion list. All are first-time entries with three of the five being American films. However, the...
Everyone is a gossip columnist today courtesy of social media. There are notable names, but anybody can make a splash with hot takes, rumors, and stupid conspiracies about how certain people are...
Queer cinema really hit it off in the 1990s and 2000s with more LGBT actors, directors, and stories being portrayed more openly than in years prior. Primarily, they were outside-the-box productions with...
There are films that have been in development hell. There are films with troubled productions where budgets grow and shooting goes past its schedule. And then, there is a film where those...
Part of Hollywood's culture and lore has always included events that publically questioned Hollywood as a moral business. It is a sector of entertainment, but the arts have always included stories of...
Into the new days of summer, hopefully with everyone vaccinated (and do please get the vaccine), and a new slate of movies are coming from the Criterion Collection. A Samuel Fuller film...
