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I was told recently by a filmmaker that Vimeo’s process for selecting their coveted Staff Picks badges is quite random. It’s just a matter of having the right amount of eyes on the short, and a...

The late Haskell Wexler is regarded as one of the greatest and most innovative talents to ever work in the field of cinematography. As a filmmaker in his own right, his output was smaller but no...

In celebration of Roger Ebert, we are reprinting the favorite reviews and articles of our writers and other distinguished readers… My favorite review from Roger is of “Cloud Atlas.” Of course, I love “Cloud Atlas.” So it...

After two years away, the TCM Classic Film Festival returned with a vengeance for its 13th annual edition dubbed “Back to the Big Screen.” Held April 21-24 at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre complex, the recently...

War is not an aberrant feature of life as human beings. It’s a constant. It’s an “always” not a “sometimes” between the great leaps made in civilization, in technology, in consciousness, in empathy, there’s a war around...

To commemorate the ninth anniversary of Roger Ebert’s passing this month, we are publishing some of his invaluable lists ranking the Top Ten films from particular years over the past half-century. Click on the title of...

10 NEW TO HBO MAX “The Batman””Beetlejuice””Boogie Nights””Dances with Wolves””Hugo””Insidious””Moon””The Night House””Poltergeist””Seven” 10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Argo””Blade II””Full Metal Jacket””Her””Inception””Nightcrawler””Ouija: The Origin of Evil””The Rental””The Ring””Saving Private Ryan” 13 NEW TO BLU-RAY “The Apartment” Movies just...

There have been so many serial killer thrillers on television that writers are running out of ways to keep the genre fresh. Enter “Shining Girls,” a new Apple TV+ thriller based on the novel of the...

In Shakespeare’s As You Like It, written around 1599, the character Jacques declaims on the “seven ages” of man, starting off with a “mewling and puking” infancy and ending on a rather dreadful vision of old...

Now that Nicolas Cage has had his stock upgraded as of late (thanks to his lovely performance in “Pig” and his self-aware turn in the recent “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”), and Bruce Willis has...