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Steven Lane was a collector first. He saw the original “Star Wars” at age seven, started with action figures, and ended up with a dream come true: he owns Princess Leia’s dress from the final scene...

Roger Ebert’s Film Festival (a.k.a. Ebertfest) is pleased to be the recipient of a continuing grant from The Hollywood Foreign Press Association at its annual Grants Banquet Dinner on Wednesday, August 2nd. Since 2014, these grants...

Dave McCary’s indie breakout “Brigsby Bear” is a tale about the wonder of storytelling, and the relationship we develop with a narrative and its characters that is wholly unique to us. In the case of this...

Amazon Prime’s three new series for children and their families include a courageous girl whose best friend is an anxious egg, a boy who has to save the world, and a reboot of a beloved Saturday...

As the recent Emmy nominations made clear, cable networks and streaming services are dominating the cultural conversation when it comes to television. While new nominees like “Stranger Things,” “Westworld,” “The Crown,” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” earned...

If I was asked what actors I’d like to see curate their own film festival, Michael Cera would be right at the top of my list. When invited by The Criterion Collection to name some of...

Bollywood musical “Munna Michael” is too many movies crammed into one. This formulaic but satisfying crowd-pleaser shifts its focus from one protagonist to another so many times that it’s hard to tell whose story and emotions matter most. It only begins...

Before major screenings at the Montreal-based Fantasia Festival, people meow. Yes, I mean that literally. As the lights go down, people make sounds that remind you of cats. There’s an occasional quiet dog and I even...

One of the things that most impresses me about Fantasia Festival is the scope of the operation. It plays for three weeks with almost no repeats, meaning that over 150 films will make at least their...