Movie

If it seems that the big-screen casts of many awards hopefuls are raining men, you wouldn’t be wrong. Male ensembles are quite in vogue during this unusual pandemic-extended Oscar season and more than a few male...

Latina filmmaker, Stella Hopkins, from Colombia, embarked on the creative experience of a lifetime when helming her directorial debut, “Elyse,” a new psychological thriller co-starring her husband, Oscar-winner Sir Anthony Hopkins. Lisa Pepper stars in the titular...

Iconic historian Timuel Black is turning 102 on Monday, December 7th, 2020, and will be celebrated with a special drive-by car parade organized by the University of Chicago Civil Knowledge Project and the Alumni Association. Mr. Black...

Luke Greenfield’s “Half Brothers” is a tale of two stories. One track gives the movie its title: two half-brothers who could not be more different meet for the first time when their father is dying. Because...

When the pandemic hit, it halted the planned second season of HBO’s Emmy-winning “Euphoria,” resulting in this week’s minimized Christmas episode titled simply “Euphoria Part 1: Rue.” Filmed during the pandemic, the show that’s often so...

Director Robert Rodriguez enters the “Star Wars” universe with one hell of a 32-minute episode in “Chapter 14: The Tragedy,” an action-packed game changer that is mighty rewarding for patient fans. Some things happen in this...

This week, Paramount Home Video releases a Blu-ray of Robert Altman’s “Popeye,” one of the most unusual pictures in a filmography that’s already as far from conventional as Hollywood bodies of work get. For the loose,...

Mira Nair’s strengths as a filmmaker are on full, dazzling display in her adaptation of the epic 1993 novel A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth’s rival to War and Peace or Pride and Prejudice. Nair’s thoughtful consideration of...

Administrative duties are only one dimension of Musa Hadid’s job as mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital and cultural center of the Palestinian State. Aside from putting out fires, sometimes literally, in a town with...

“Luxor,” written and directed by Zeina Durra, is a mood piece. Andrea Riseborough plays Hana, a traumatized aid worker who comes to the Egyptian city filled with magnificent antiquities for a break. She runs into Sultan...