Movie

“Is this gonna be more like ‘Futurama’ or ‘Rick and Morty’?” a character asks in the early minutes of Netflix’s adult animated sitcom “Farzar.” And sure, this cynical appeal to viewers’ familiarity with those far-better series...

The “Resident Evil” games and films (at least before the dull “Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City”) have inspired each other to greater heights of insanity over the last twenty years. As someone who has played...

It’s nice to know that the Black lady who sings “hmmmmmm-HMMMMMM” on the soundtrack to symbolize Black trauma in American movies has international equivalents. In the hideously offensive South African horror film “Good Madam,” she’s replaced...

“My Name is Sara” is billed as biographical drama, and it is. The movie is based on the true story of Sara Góralnik, who escaped Nazi persecution in Poland, adopted the identity of a Christian classmate, and worked...

I am proud to share this piece by my dad, former FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow, about the 60th anniversary of the launch of the world’s first telecommunications satellite. Appointed by President Kennedy just before his 35th...

Before every screening at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, a black and white skit plays starring a past winner of their Crystal Globe (which honors a film creative’s contribution to cinema, with this year recipient being...

It’s always a fun challenge to try to pin down the movie-gathering identity of Montreal’s Fantasia Festival. For starters, it’s fascinated with genre, especially in the way that horror and sci-fi flourish when they don’t play it...

Netflix’s newest series, “Boo, Bitch” is a montage of early 2000s teen film nostalgia, half baked Gen-Z pandering, and YA book-to-movie stylization. Lana Candor leads this series as Erika Vu, a shy, nerdy high school senior...

Whether as Paulie Walnuts on “The Sopranos” or not, you could always spot Tony Sirico from a mile away. There was that thick, slicked-back coif of hair, flanked by two thick, winged shocks of white at...

The robust family adventure “The Sea Beast,” appearing today on Netflix, is one of the biggest movie surprises of the year so far. Fun, smart, and sneakily deep, it has elements that will be familiar to...