The 25 Best Westerns Of All Time
It feels like we've been silhouetted in a doorway with our hand hovering over the low-slung six-shooter on our hip for an age now, waiting for the opportunity to run through our favorite films in one of our ver...
Ethan Hawke Talks Diversity With Rebecca Carroll At ‘How I Got Over’ Conversation Series
With Tim Burton's recent disappointing comments on diversity still ringing in our ears, The Playlist attended WNYC's event at The Greene Space, where host Rebecca Carroll (author and WNYC's producer for special...
‘The Magnificent Seven’ Goes Guns Blazing To The Top Of The Box Office
After three weeks of holding down the top of the box office, Tom Hanks and "Sully" have made way for another A-list star and his latest project, saddling up a remake of a classic Western.
"The Magnificent Se...
‘The Magnificent Seven’ Is A Bigger, Louder, Dumber Remake Of The Classic Western [TIFF Review]
While “elegant” might not be the first word used to describe John Sturges’ classic western “The Magnificent Seven,” it’s certainly an adjective that seems like a worthy descriptor, especially when watching Anto...
13 Films To See In September
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...
The 30 Most Anticipated Films Of The 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
So far, 2016 has been one of most disappointing years for movies we can remember, and the fall film-festival season couldn’t come fast enough. And already, Venice opener “La La Land,” has made the cinematic lan...
The 50 Most Anticipated Films Of The Fall Season
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...
#SquadGoals: The 20 Best Ragtag Movie Squads
One of the most eagerly anticipated movies of the year arrives this week with “Suicide Squad,” David Ayer’s snarky little brother to “Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice,” which hopes to rescue the DC Movie Univ...
New Films By Terrence Malick, Derek Cianfrance, Mel Gibson, Denis Villeneuve Lead 2016 Venice Film Festival Line Up
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...
TIFF 2016 Brings ‘Nocturnal Animals,’ ‘The Magnificent Seven,’ ‘La La Land,’ ‘Arrival,’ ‘Deepwater Horizon’ & More To Toronto
It's six weeks away from the start of the Toronto International Film Festival, and the launch of the awards season. It surely will amount to a bounty of offerings for cinephiles, as Hollywood puts a troubling s...