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While the 1990s stands as the halcyon days of Black romances—“Poetic Justice,” “Love and Basketball,” “Soul Food,” “The Best Man,” and so forth—writer/director Theodore Witcher’s “Love Jones” stands out. It features portions of the city of Chicago, the...

Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), the title character of Columbia Pictures’ MCU-adjacent semi-horror movie “Morbius,” is a “living vampire.” What, you might be thinking, does that mean? Did the good doctor become a vampire without having...

For a while, any discussion of the New York-based movie studio Glass Eye Pix has understandably gravitated around its original creator, Larry Fessenden, who directs, produces, and/or stars in many of Glass Eye’s indie productions. Fessenden...

Justin Kurzel has never shied away from darkness, but exploring his country’s worst national tragedies on screen is also nothing the Australian filmmaker takes lightly.  “Nitram,” his psychologically pulverizing latest, doesn’t directly depict the 1996 Port...

The truth is that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been surprisingly bereft of truly great acting turns. It’s a world that embraces spectacle over character, and usually tends to melodrama when it’s trying to pull at the viewer’s...

Age of Cage is a perfect synergy of author and actor. You’d be hard-pressed to think of a performer with a more interesting career over the last four decades of work than Nicolas Cage, who went...

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Hulu’s “The Girl From Plainville,” like many of its limited-series contemporaries, begins at the end—at least, the end for young Connor Ray III (Colton Ryan), a bright but misunderstood kid found one morning in a Kmart...

On a night full of controversy about awards presentation and an assault on a presenter by an eventual winner, the Academy handed out their 94th Oscars tonight and the big winners were Warner Brothers and Apple...

From Software’s “Elden Ring” has already ruined so many lives. The people behind the historically brutal “Dark Souls” games released their latest adventure in late February, and I have spent dozens of hours over the last...