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By the time newly retired hitman Henry Brogan (Will Smith) first lays eyes on his pursuer and younger clone Junior (a digitally de-aged Will Smith) our own eyes are finally adjusting to the 120 frames-per-second 3D...

When it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2017, “The Current War,” was not well-received and there were rumors of a clash between director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and producer Harvey Weinstein over the final cut. When...

Films mentioning Southern and Black usually engender assumptions of slavery or racism, as though the Black experience ended in 1865. But those elements do not define Phillip Youmans’ incredible dark feature debut “Burning Cane,” which grapples with...

At the end of last year I made the decision to leave my small Sacramento town and move to Los Angeles. Having been a freelance film critic and pop culture essayist for the last decade, I...

It is no exaggeration to say that if the wild life and times of producer Robert Evans had been the invention of a particularly creative screenwriter, most studios probably would have taken a pass on it...

We have money. This seems to be the main message behind Apple TV’s launch content as they launch a series of shows with budgets and pedigrees that most basic cable channels can’t come anywhere near. Bringing...

Thomasin McKenzie’s imagination is a powerful thing. Talking to her about “Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi’s dark, satirical adaptation of the  Christine Leunen book “Caging Skies,” means talking a lot about the inner life of her character,...

Passes for the 22nd annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, or “Ebertfest,” will go on sale Friday, November 1, at the official sites of Ebertfest and its main venue, The Virginia Theatre, 203 W. Park Avenue, Champaign, Illinois. They can also be...

Thanks to a number of hit films that have centered almost exclusively around female characters and narratives driven by sly wit, wild plot developments and a frank and oftentimes transgressive attitude towards sexuality, French filmmaker Francois...

We, as a species, often learn by watching. We watch others to study social cues and note the consequences of their mistakes. We watch movies and TV shows, absorbing all kinds of information about love, sex,...