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The 52nd Nashville Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday, September 30th, and runs through Wednesday, October 6th, aims to showcase the beauty of its city like never before. In-person screenings will be held at various iconic...

Twelve years ago, on a June gloomy day, my husband and I took a trip up north to look at the puppy from a breeder in Central California. The puppy was only seven weeks old, but...

As someone who has been covering television for two decades, I’m always fascinated by shifts in the model. Of course, there have been many from HBO to DVRs to streaming services, but the question of how...

The film world lost a legend last week with the passing of one of its godfathers, Melvin Van Peebles. Robert Daniels has already written a lovely tribute to the man that you can read here, but...

Arriving at the end of its sixth decade, the New York Film Festival exhibits the wary tentativeness of a patient waking up after a lengthy operation. Are my legs still here? My arms? Can I raise...

“The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise—with the occasion…Think anew, and act anew…”—Abraham Lincoln “There is no darkness, but ignorance.”—William Shakespeare L-R, top: Kenya Apongule, Michael Proctor, Anna Lee Ackermann; L-R, bottom:...

Mike Flanagan’s “Midnight Mass” sees the talented writer/director move from adapting Stephen King to crafting a project that feels so distinctly like one of the horror master’s works that even fans will wonder how they missed...

Navy Pier, Chicago’s iconic cultural destination,will host Chicago LIVE Again!—a free, two-day outdoor festival to celebrate Chicago’s arts and entertainment industry as it makes its triumphant return to live stages across the city since the onset...

Melvin Van Peebles was a bridge between the French New Wave and Blaxploitation. His independent classic, the highest grossing self-produced film to that point, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” without hyperbole, altered the course of cinematic history,...

“Intrusion” is the latest middling Netflix thriller to hit the streaming service, this one coming with the angle of being more about a marriage’s problems than a home invasion. Call it “Scenes from a Marriage in...