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Marvel and Disney+’s “Werewolf by Night” is a great project in concept, but less so in execution. On paper, it should be a home run. Existing somewhere between a TV show and a movie, this standalone...

Movie posters dot the background of Ida Hansen Eldøen’s charming animated short “This Is Katharine.” More than mere easter eggs, they’re a shorthand for how the film’s characters express and understand their queerness. And they remind...

Trailblazing filmmaker Sally Potter began experimenting with moving images after her uncle gave her a 8mm camera when she was 14 years old. This passion continued with the experimental films she made after joining the London...

In their sickly committed, often ingeniously self-documented pursuit of online validation and its associated cultural capital, social media influencers brand themselves as protagonists worth following, an assertion of mass egocentricity that many have dubbed “main character”...

Adapted from her Goya Award and Forqué Award-winning short film of the same, Carlota Pereda’s “Piggy” is an unflinching look at coming-of-age in the era of cyberbullying, wrapped inside a chilling slasher package. Featuring a star-making...

I’ve long been a fan of Stephen King’s novellas, and some of them have been turned into great films in the past, including “Stand by Me,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” and “The Mist.” The master of horror’s...

Deadline’s Matthew Carey recently published an article about RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert, who received the FACETS Legend Award at last month’s Screen Gems Benefit (you can read the full article here). Carey spoke with Ebert about how her “early...

At FACETS’ 2022 Screen Gems Benefit where RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert was awarded the Legend Prize, Karen Carderelli, the venue’s Executive Director, announced that the 47-year-old cinema organization will be administering the newly launched Chicago Alliance of Film Festivals (“CAFF”)....

I can vividly remember sitting in a premiere at the 2018 Oxford Film Festival of a new true crime documentary called “Forever ‘B’.” The energy in that room was insane as the story unfolding on the...

Somewhere out there in the farthest reaches of space, perhaps even on another planet at this point, is a lost glove. It slipped away from an astronaut during a routine journey to the moon and back...