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The 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards held their 37th ceremony Sunday afternoon in tents on the beach of Santa Monica, and honored numerous films that were overlooked by the Oscars. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s debut feature, “The Lost Daughter,”...

When the pandemic hit in March of 2020, I needed a heroine. I’d been thinking a lot about swashbuckling women on screen and determined seek them out. Sadly, they are few and far between. There is...

This year, Kirsten Dunst is nominated for her first ever Oscar for her role in Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog.” She plays Rose, a hardworking but fragile woman yearning for love and understanding. Rose...

Before “Batman: The Animated Series,” superhero cartoons for children generally meant things like Filmation’s various Superfriends series. These shows tended to be indifferently designed, stiffly animated, with professional if uninspired voice work. They were meant to...

Before the impressive success of ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” it seemed like hardworking, earnest heroes were over. Writer/producer/star Quinta Brunson is changing that cultural trend. The show’s central protagonist, Janine Teagues (played by Brunson) is an endearingly well-intentioned and...

Teeming with a nourishing serenity, the future envisioned in director Kogonada’s sophomore cinematic balm “After Yang” feels ripe for introspection. Reshaped for the screen from the short story “Saying Goodbye to Yang” by Alexander Weinstein, the...

For the Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s, “Showtime,” the term that would become synonymous with their brand of go-go-go, high-flying basketball, was more than a nickname. It helped change the game. At the outset of...

The 22nd Annual Black Reel Awards, presented by idobi, featured twelve live awards, five honorees and tributes to key films in the history of Black cinema. Jeymes Samuel’s western “The Harder They Fall” earned the most accolades with...

Having been forced to go virtual last year like so many other film festivals throughout the world, “Rendez-Vous with French Cinema” is set to once again return to an in-person event at New York’s Walter Reade...

“Joe vs. Carole” is a grueling lesson for audiences in “be careful what you wish for” when it comes to narrative adaptations of documentaries. In this case, the sluggish experience for anyone who thought that the wild...