Movie

We’re pleased to offer an excerpt from the October issue of the online magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room. The theme for this month is “Second Acts,” focusing both on films in which characters undertake big life changes and on creators who...

What movies should you watch for Indigenous Peoples’ Day? Inspired by last year’s PBS mini series, the four-part documentary “Native America,” I asked the experts, from the first Native American actor to receive an Academy Award to...

The numbers are unimaginable. The vocabulary is mind-numbing—and intended to be so. One of the biggest financial scandals of all time is known as the Panama Papers, a global money laundering/tax evasion/corruption-concealing scheme involving some of the...

USA’s “Treadstone,” based on the Jason Bourne saga created by Richard Ludlum and then adapted into hit films like “The Bourne Legacy” and “The Bourne Supremacy” and just “Jason Bourne,” might have worked better when Matt...

So just this afternoon, I got a note from one of my oldest friends who, like so many others, woke up very early this morning in order to go on Netflix and watch “El Camino,” the...

Actor. Filmmaker. Activist. For over 40 years, Edward James Olmos has refused to be labeled just one thing. Olmos, 72, continues to be one of the most prominent hyphenates in the Latino entertainment community. He received...

What the hell is a Jexi? Unless you looked it up, you could stare at the movie showtimes for ages and not come up with the right answer. And unless you snuck a peek at the...

Two legendary performers, Diahann Carroll and Jessye Norman, recently passed away, and I couldn’t resist paying tribute to their legacies. They were truly Divas with a capital “D,” in the most positive, complimentary definition of the word,...

It’s so clichéd at this point in the critical conversation during the hot take season of festivals to say, “You’ve never seen a movie quite like X.” Such a statement has become overused to such a degree that...

2019 is becoming the year of the CGI-faced actor. After computer based de-aging technology took decades off the cast of “The Irishman,” “Gemini Man” has employed this same technique to turn “Collateral Beauty” Will Smith into...