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Orson Welles needed money. That’s how this story begins. Back in 1946, Welles was putting the finishing touches on an ambitious stage production of...

For the second year in a row, the Sundance Film Festival returns to Colorado. Well, to anyone with an internet connection and a movie...

If there’s a specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change...

There never has been, and there never will be, a movie like Roar. Even the tagline is one in a million, “No animals were harmed in the making of this film. Seventy cast and crew members were.” If that doesn’t pique your interest, then you ought to have your pulse ...

As if by deliberate and vaguely sadistic design, Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil leeches the fun clean out of the first Hoodwinked (2005). Six years between films is a long time, and here, when Kirk the Woodsman shows up and someone says something like “Hey! It’s Kirk ...

Sex in cinema is a complex thing. Depicting something so private, yet so routine, with taste and titillation at the same time has been...

May 1940: Hitler is riding roughshod across Europe, gobbling up territory like an insatiable monster. Norway, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Denmark have all fallen. Belgium,...

What’s your level of interest here? It’s been 15 years and 30-plus features — not to mention TV and streaming series — since Iron...

“ilm is the great adventure — the costly, exacting mistress.” —Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman’s legacy in the annals of cinematic history is secure. With over...

An object is not without context, and a perspective is not without a point of view. For British philosopher Alan Watts, this was a...

The infamous Beale Street belongs to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, but every city has a Beale Street. So claimed writer James Baldwin, born...

Who is Number One? So asks Number Six, the prisoner, played by actor and show co-creator, Patrick McGoohan. And so asked the hoards of TV...