As we slowly and eagerly await the end of a year that history will squint back on forever, we can take some solace in knowing that it hasn’t been completely devoid of good things. And if you’ve been following o...
This week we looked at the winners and losers of the summer 2016 season, but the usual dismal Labor Day weekend box office has provided two more entries to add to the latter category, while a late-season horror...
While this past summer at the movies has been rough by most accounts (though August had a slight surge of quality films), we now find ourselves at that near-180-degree switch that amounts to the fall festival s...
It might be a bit of a bummer to see news start rolling in about the movies screening at the Venice Film Festival, most of which you'll have to wait months until you can watch them yourself. But there's one mov...
Parents tend to have no perspective about their children, especially their newborn kin. They are the embodiment of life, golden treasures and mothers and fathers can stare at them lovingly all day long without ...
Derek Cianfrance’s “The Light Between Oceans” could be the head scratcher of the fall film festival season. The director ("Blue Valentine," “The Place Beyond The Pines”) is deeply respected in the film world, t...
Next week, the first of the big fall film festivals kicks off, in which hordes of international journalists will surely threaten to sink the 11km-long sandbar island that is the Lido di Venezia. The Venice Film...
Let’s face it, 2016 has so far been sort of a crappy year for movies. It’s been a particularly bad summer blockbuster season, with almost everything coming up short. But even the indie world has been quieter th...
The Venice Film Festival is always one of the highlights of the film-going year, and the line-up announced this morning for its 73rd installment, which kicks off next month, suggests that that’ll certainly be t...
Director Derek Cianfrance certainly knows his way to an emotional gutpunch, as evidenced by "Blue Valentine," which beautifully and agonizingly detailed the well of feelings involved in a breakup, leaving us cl...