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I saw “The Hate U Give” after a couple of weeks spent revisiting classic silent films made nearly 100 years ago. George Tillman, Jr.’s film, which is based on Angie Thomas’ bestselling young adult novel, reminded me...

The idea of the villain as a dark reflection of the hero is not a new one. Frank Miller did it decades ago; so did Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Comic book adaptations have soared...

There’s been a buzz at Toronto this year about the number of high-profile projects directed by actors, including the debuts of Bradley Cooper (“A Star is Born”) and Jonah Hill (“Mid90s”), but it’s Paul Dano’s breakthrough...

There’s a conspiracy between the body and the mind to which our conscious selves are never party. Together, they make us cry when we feel nothing; they make us numb when we should want to scream...

Despite her brilliant energy and comic timing, Melissa McCarthy has starred in a number of not-so-great and forgettable movies—a streak that ends with Marielle Heller’s “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Here, McCarthy makes a grouchy curmudgeon into a...

“Mid90s” is a story that comes from a very personal, if not surprising part of writer/director Jonah Hill, who went from man-child comedy protege to two-time Oscar-nominee without playing characters who broadcasted his fandom for and deep knowledge of...

As much I hate to say this, I’m not sure that David Gordon Green, Danny McBride and the people behind a new sequel to John Carpenter’s “Halloween” really understand what made the first film a masterpiece....

Actor/activist Amandla Stenberg read The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas before it was published. As she began to work on bringing it to the screen, she did not know that it would debut on the...

Special-effects wizard Tom Savini is most famous for his collaborations with fellow Pennsylvanian George Romero, whose “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dawn of the Dead” are still two of the most influential modern horror films....

TODAY, October 15, is my birthday (I’m a Libra Girl), and I am hoping the next year will be transformational for me. Below are the gifts I am wishing for. I have wished for them before, but...