Movie

Once more I am delighted and honored to be attending the Venice Film Festival, to participate in a panel discussing the always innovative (in a sense by definition) films backed by the Biennale College, which I’ll...

Trinitie Childs (Regina Hall) is the “First Lady” of Wander to Greater Paths, an Atlanta Southern Baptist megachurch run by her husband, Lee-Curtis (Sterling K. Brown). They are 25,000 parishioners strong—or rather, they were 25,000 parishioners strong. When...

“Revenge is like a river,” a woman says in voiceover at the beginning of the movie. Her next words give more detail to the simile, but it’s not until the very end of this unsettling, absorbing...

A Hollywood Hills housewarming party eventually turns deadly in “Who Invited Them,” a staid home invasion thriller about a timid married couple who are bullied by two flirtatious strangers. More experienced—or funnier, or more exploitation-adept—filmmakers might...

A moment of silence for the American erotic thriller.  For years now the faithful have prayed for its return and when a good faith effort finally reared its head, it was laughed off screens. We may...

It’s rare to accuse a Netflix thriller of being too ambitious but that’s kind of the case with Babak Anvari’s “I Came By,” a mostly effective potboiler that has the opposite problem of so many mini-series...

The era of next-gen consoles has led to a market of remastered games, titles that initially released on the PS3 or PS4, for example, given a visual polish for the PS5. Some fans see this as...

The intersection of technology and humanity has been a theme of fiction, film, and even television for generations now. Embedded in the DNA of AMC+’s first animated drama series, “Pantheon,” premiering on Friday, September 1st, one...

It seemed like a good idea at the time. I started seeing 70mm film festivals pop up all over the country this summer. The Somerville Theatre near Boston had its 70mm and widescreen festival in June....

The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit branch of the National Association of Theatre Owners, has named this Saturday, September 3rd, National Cinema Day, a one-day event that will see participating locations sell movie tickets for prices as low...