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At a glance, the Yorgos Lanthimos film “The Favourite” and Hulu’s new satirical drama “The Great” have quite a bit in common. Chief among its shared qualities—and an explanation for many of them—is the presence of...

One of the most charming scenes in the new Starz drama series, “Hightown,” takes place at a Movies in the Park screening of “Dirty Dancing,” the mere sight of which may elicit tears from cinephiles currently...

Tom Hardy might be the closest thing we have to a Marlon Brando right now—not just in the sense that Hardy is a Method actor who loves makeup and costumes (and sometimes masks), and has a theatrical, at times...

If one were going to make a list that ranked the most inspired casting decisions in TV history, the decision to put Jerry Stiller in the role of Frank Constanza, the permanently apoplectic father of George...

At times unfocused, Netflix’s latest docuseries “Trial by Media” struggles to bring its six stories together under the same umbrella but contains enough insight to warrant a look and possibly spark conversation. As with any project...

Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” deals with the life of hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert DeNiro), from his early days as a truck driver where his blatant dishonesty moves him up the ranks of the local mob. He ends...

“I am the originator! I am the innovator! I am the emancipator! I am the motivator! I conceived and achieved it! Defined and refined it! Mold it and souled it … Then the white man stole...

“Spaceship Earth,” about a group of explorers locking themselves into a man-made, self-sustaining ecosystem for two years in the early 1990s, is a model of documentary craft, showcasing mainstream narrative nonfiction at its apex. As cinema, it’s not trying...

A writer dreams it up, and then someone has to figure out how to make it look real on screen. That step begins with the previs (pre-visualization) experts like Chris Edwards, CEO of THE THIRD FLOOR ....

Not long after cinematographer Lawrence Sher’s first collaboration with filmmaker Todd Phillips, “The Hangover,” became a massive hit in the summer of 2009, the seasoned director of photography agreed to participate in a video conference with...