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Pierre Rissient passed away on May 6th, 2018 at the age of 81. We send our condolences to his friends and family and reprint this article by Roger in his memory. TORONTO, Ont.-Attached to this article should...

The 71st Annual Cannes International Film Festival opens on May 8, but don’t expect any post-70th-anniversary hangover from this sprawling mash-up of highbrow film competition, party mill, and trade show, as there’s yet another milestone date...

Actor Keith Carradine and director Alan Rudolph met over 40 years ago when they were both employed by the late, great Robert Altman. They went on to make six films together, starting with 1976’s “Welcome to...

Here is Chaz Ebert’s first video dispatch from the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, followed by a transcript of the video… Cannes 2018 Preview with Chaz Ebert from The Mint on Vimeo. With our 20th annual Ebertfest...

You’d be forgiven if you took a look at Bollywood mega-star Amitabh Bachchan in the sappy, but satisfying geriatric comedy “102 Not Out”—clad in a frizzy Einstein-like wig, and fake-looking white beard—and wondered if he shouldn’t be a...

HOLLYWOOD — Though “Powerful Words: The Page Onscreen” served as the official theme of the ninth annual TCM Classic Film Festival, which concluded here over the weekend, even more palpable was the power of community.  Ben...

As movie-going experiences go, there is nothing worse than to sit through what purports to be a comedy and never have a reason to engage your laugh reflex. Exhibit A: The gender-switch remake of the 1987...

The spectacularly dumb, and weirdly entertaining bad-taste thriller “Bad Samaritan” is the kind of movie that many will assume can only be enjoyed ironically, or just with some sort of emotional detachment. This serial-killer horror flick does, admittedly, sound like low-brow kitsch: former “Doctor Who” star...

In the final credits for “RBG,” a documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “Meme Creators” get the longest credit roll, with an apology following: “We were unable to identify every artist.” The unlikely transformation...

Having a kid is hard. Having three kids—one of whom is a newborn baby—isn’t just three times harder. The challenges increase exponentially to the point of surrealism, a sensation writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman...