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Jim Cummings has carved out an essential role in the indie film landscape with just three films: “Thunder Road,” “The Wolf of Snow Hollow” and this week’s “The Beta Test,” co-written and co-directed by co-star P.J....

As every rock historian knows, the legendary club CBGB’s, located in the Bowery of New York City, gave rise to some of the most important bands of the ‘70s. The Ramones, Talking Heads, Television and countless...

Director Chloé Zhao applies her distinctive aesthetic imprint to “Eternals,” but she can only do so much to bend the Marvel Cinematic Universe to her will. The result is a blockbuster of unusual gentle beauty that...

There’s no way around how Sydney Pollack’s “Castle Keep” has aged awkwardly. Half of its jokes don’t land and never did, and it was written and directed by people who sacrificed artistry for cleverness. But there’s undeniably a kind...

Rebecca Hall’s acclaimed directorial debut, “Passing,” won the U.S. Narrative Feature Jury Award at the 33rd installment of NewFest, New York City’s LGBTQ+ film festival. According to the jury’s official statement, “The film’s expressive cinematography, beautiful performances,...

Many performers have spent their childhood dreaming of one day becoming an actor, but that was not at all the case with Thomasin McKenzie. Part of the reason may have been the fact that she grew...

“Antlers” is a film about darkness. Human darkness. Supernatural darkness. Literal, low-lit filmmaking darkness. It is a slimy, icky, violent film that doesn’t always come together but it also undeniably feels like it has emerged from...

Before December of 1953, practitioners of stand-up comedy followed a fairly standard template that consisted of someone standing up on a stage reeling off one joke after another, often accompanied by a rim shot to alert...

Delicate and devastating, “Passing” luxuriates in the gray spaces of racial ambiguity while bringing 1920s New York to life in exquisite monochrome. That it’s the work of a first-time filmmaker—the respected British actress Rebecca Hall—makes the...

Writer/director Wendell B. Harris, Jr’s groundbreaking, boundary pushing debut, “Chameleon Street” tracks a cunning con man, a professional shape-shifter. See, a chameleon is a reptile known for changing its complexion, allowing for it to hide in...