The Avengers of Hunks: Jonathan Bennett, Tyler Hynes, and B.J. Britt on Hallmark’s Groomsmen Trilogy As its new streaming service kicks off, Hallmark+ is doing something new – not one but three new interconnected movies… Read More → October 29, 2024
Billy Crystal Struggles to Clarify Apple TV+’s Haunting New Horror Series “Before” In Apple TV+’s “Before,” protagonist Eli (Billy Crystal) tells his therapist that his life has “turned into a Dali painting.”… Read More → October 26, 2024
Silence As Salvation: The Quiet Femmes of Modern Horror Zohra Lampert’s Jessica in 1971’s “Let’s Scare Jessica to Death” smiles as she suffers horrors. Not because she’s particularly brave… Read More → October 26, 2024
A Master of Subtle Function: Cinematographer Dick Pope (1947-2024) The brilliance of Dick Pope, who died this week at 77, can be seen in nearly all of the movies… Read More → October 26, 2024
30 Years of “Hoop Dreams”: Steve James on Roger Ebert, Oscar Snubs, and Documentary Filmmaking “Now to the bottom line: Are these ‘five better films’ than “Hoop Dreams?” I would say they are not. “Hoop… Read More → October 25, 2024
CIFF 2024: Cloud, Grafted, Parvulos As those who have been attending film festivals for any amount of time can attest, after watching the usual array… Read More → October 24, 2024
CIFF 2024: The Return of the Projectionist, Between Goodbyes, The Brink of Dreams Year after year, the Chicago International Film Festival’s documentary program features exceptional stories from around the globe. For its 60th… Read More → October 24, 2024
Iowa City Celebrates with Enriching Pair of Festivals It’s not often that a film festival and book festival join forces, but that is just the case in Iowa… Read More → October 24, 2024
10 Underrated Horror Movies That Roger Ebert Loved (and Where to Watch Them) Due to the highly publicized conversations between Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, especially in the early ‘80s, about the moral… Read More → October 24, 2024
I Doubled in Size: Lee Pace on the Legacy of “The Fall” “The Fall,” now finally available on Mubi and getting a theatrical release from the company, feels impossible. It’s one of… Read More → October 23, 2024