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It takes a certain kind of touch, a populist brilliance, to know that “Milk was a bad choice” could help launch a comedy empire. Adam McKay had that when he scoured through the many improvised lines...

Confusingly for some, perhaps most confusingly for Billy Crystal fans, this movie has the same title as Crystal’s 1992 Anatomy of An Old-School Standup movie, an arguably interesting self-laceration under the guise of a laceration of...

Based on the play of the same name by Adam Mervis (“21 Bridges”) and directed by Ric Roman Waugh (“Greenland”), “National Champions” follows star collegiate quarterback LeMarcus James (Stephan James) who, along with his best friend...

“Mom, this summer, could you teach me how to fly?” This is what I asked at age 4 while walking out of Chicago’s Arie Crown Theater after having seen Cathy Rigby, suspended on wires, soaring into...

This is hard to admit, but sometimes when you program short films for a festival, your heart begins to sink a little with each entry. That happened to me one year. Was it me or was...

Matt writes: The greatest composer/lyricist of all time, Stephen Sondheim, died on November 26th at age 91. He was eulogized beautifully by our Editor at Large, Matt Zoller Seitz, who wrote that his “art was rooted...

Two decades after the attack on September 11th, filmmakers are grappling with the ugliness in how the CIA tried to get more information about future terrorist attacks, and the school of torture that followed. Scott Z. Burns’...

The new Netflix series “Voir” bills itself as “A collection of visual essays for the love of cinema.” What this translates to is a collection of six short films, each approximately 20 minutes in length, in...

The Critics Choice Association announced today the final list of honorees for it’s Celebration of Black Cinema & Television, taking place on Monday, December 6th, at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. The event, hosted by Emmy...

Two of the film world’s most influential figures, Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Cameron Bailey, have been promoted to new roles in the industry. CHERYL BOONE ISAACS, Founding Director of the Sidney Poitier New American Film School...