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We are very proud to present an excerpt from Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It by Jason Bailey, available in stores and online today. This chapter is about Taxi Driver, an...

It’s rare to say this about an action game but the actual combat of Square Enix’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” available this week on PC and consoles, isn’t its strength. Caught somewhere between a strategic, turn-based...

Premiering on the CW today, “4400” aggressively tries to win over the people who obsess over shows like “Lost” or “The Leftovers,” but with less tact (this series is a remake of a USA Network show...

Set in El Paso, Texas, Maisie Crow’s documentary “At the Ready” takes aim at the law enforcement classes that scoop up vulnerable students who are looking for ways to help their families with the promise of a...

Maybe it’s the effect of the Roland Emmerich blockbuster, but it doesn’t feel outlandish to say that modern disaster stories have lost the focus on humanity amidst the spectacle. It’s become far more about the destruction than the...

“The Harder They Fall” is a bloody pleasure: a revenge Western packed with memorable characters played by memorable actors, every scene and moment staged for voluptuous beauty and kinetic power. Jeymes Samuels, who cowrote, directed, and scored...

In a 2019 interview with Charente Libre, Wes Anderson said that his new movie, “The French Dispatch” was “not easy to explain.” He’s right, it’s not, and any explanation would deconstruct it in a way to...

At RogerEbert.com, we’ve tried to unpack the intersection of video game and film culture. We’ve noted how the games and films of the “Resident Evil” franchise almost seem in conversation with one another; how the “Uncharted”...

I can’t overstate the beauty of “Maya and the Three,” premiering on Netflix tomorrow. It’s a different beauty than Anglo audiences are used to. A lot of animation is “colorful” but that word doesn’t come close...

Back in the day, the two big counterculture sci-fi novels were the libertarian-division Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, which made the word “grok” a thing for many years (not so much anymore; hardly even...