Movie

Today, my friends, the Unloved is seven years old. I decided to celebrate with a big action movie that happens to be set in 2020 and be about the last survivors of the apocalypse. Couldn’t possibly...

In all my years of covering short films, I’ve never seen anything like what has happened with Will McCormack and Michael Govier’s animated short, “If Anything Happens I Love You.”  Since the film premiered on Netflix on...

On the heels of garnering a nomination for Best Sports Documentary at the 5th Annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, Mary Mazzio’s acclaimed film “A Most Beautiful Thing” has now been honored with a limited-edition shoe from FILA....

“Black Bear” is something of a Rorschach indie film, its two halves mirroring each other, demanding the viewer’s own take. At the beginning of the movie from writer/director Lawrence Michael Levine, Aubrey Plaza plays a struggling indie filmmaker named...

Anna Sewell’s “Black Beauty” has seen a number of on-screen incarnations since the Silent Era. The last adaptation from 1994 was a video store staple, its amber-colored poster illuminated a gorgeous black horse rearing up, a...

The word that comes to mind when playing “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla” is massive. This is more than just a linear piece of storytelling. It’s an experience in world-building that’s designed to take not just hours or...

The ingredients that make up “The Flight Attendant,” HBO Max’s highly entertaining, stealthily thoughtful new thriller, should all feel familiar to anyone who loves television, movies, and/or a good page-turner. It’s Hitchcock and hijinks, or “New...

The 13th chapter of “The Mandalorian” brings in some big “Star Wars” names to the Disney+ series, and it adds one too. We now know that Baby Yoda’s real name is Grogu, and that’s thanks to...

The thing that makes Melissa McCarthy such a fascinating comic presence is her fearlessness. In her signature roles, she takes her characters to weird, dangerous places that you’d never expect—and you’re happy to go along for...

Chaz Ebert, CEO of Ebert Digital, publisher of the film review website Rogerebert.com, on Thanksgiving Eve has released a song she wrote earlier this year called “I Remember People” to express how she and millions of Americans have...