We have a great job. We know that. But along with all the sunshine, there's gotta be a little rain sometimes, and while we spend weeks in late November and December in deliberations about the best of the year i...
While the awards season is geared specifically to honor the more artistic achievements of the medium across the last year, for those who like their entertainment with a little more spectacle, there's always the...
In a summer of filled with disappointing sequels, "X-Men: Apocalypse" might have been one of the biggest letdowns. Longtime fans weren't particularly enthralled and audiences in general didn't seem all that exc...
September is here, and the fall film festivals have started —check out our Venice coverage so far, and our Telluride coverage starts tomorrow and TIFF next week. Nevertheless, the days are getting shorter and t...
WORST. SUMMER. EVER. By now you've heard that refrain applied to the 2016 blockbuster season. Normally, we're highly skeptical of any claims that suggest that the times we're living in right this second are so...
“The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture,” Alfred Hitchcock told Francois Truffaut in one of the interviews that makes up the seminal “Hitchcock/Truffaut” book. And as the man who broug...
You know us —it's all sunshine and buttercups round here. Almost every other day of the year, we can be found frolicking in the bee-loud glades of cinephilia, delighting in the wonders on display with the unjad...
Over the past week or so, there has been a growing controversy surrounding a billboard for "X-Men: Apocalypse" showing Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique being strangled by Oscar Isaac's titular villain (see the imag...
It’s been true for a long time, but it seems that 2016 offers more proof than ever that major studios are reluctant to make a film that’s not based on existing intellectual property. Everybody in Hollywood envi...
With summer arriving in a beautiful blaze on Memorial Day weekend, moviegoers opted to stay outdoors rather than dive into Hollywood's offering of two major blockbuster sequels. The result was a pair of franchi...