Movies

If you’re a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you’re typically cast as Batman’s sidekick or a WWII veteran who escapes…

Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And “The Last Breath” is a cheesy new thriller…

The suburbs are hell. That’s what the movies keep telling us. Perfect nuclear families living in their McMansions are often…

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to discover my initial gut reaction might have been…

When thinking about the present resurgence of the cinematic hitman, it’s difficult not to immediately think about the legacy of…

Everyone from Shakespeare to Martin Luther to Pier Paolo Pasolini has taken a crack at retelling one or more tales…

At the Art House Convergence’s recent independent film exhibition conference held in Chicago, Josh Frank, author and urban drive-in entrepreneur,…

Taika Waititi, Iain Morris, and Jemaine Clement putting their mark on Monty Python creator Terry Gilliam’s 1981 classic “Time Bandits”…

Wonder what movies we’ll be talking about during this upcoming Oscar season? A handy cheat-sheet every year is the lineup…

The two-hander is an elegant structure for a lower-budget effort: Just plop two characters together, often in a single location, and…