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Through the Window: 10 Times That Foreign Directors Have Looked at America
Festivals & Awards
At This Year’s Oscars, The Show Must Go On
TV/Streaming
Netflix’s Massive Hit “The Night Agent” Returns with Confident Third Season
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2026: Once Upon a Time in Harlem, Wicker, The Gallerist
Tributes
You Play Well: Diane Keaton (1946-2025)
Tributes
Your Life Matters: Jane Goodall (1934-2025)
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Dust Bunny, The Furious, Normal
Features
Time for Kick-Off: The 11 Best Football Movies (and Where to Watch Them)
Video Games
“Expedition 33” Is An Exercise In RPG Artistry
Features
He Never Made the Same Choice Twice: 10 of Our Favorite Gene Hackman Performances
Features
From Gena to Annette: Great Actresses with Oscar Nominations but No Wins
Tributes
I Think Of Them As The Work: Gene Hackman (1930-2025)
Interviews
Scott Derrickson Dives Deep into “The Gorge”
Festivals & Awards
Navigating Sundance as a First Timer
Interviews
Living Forward: Adam Elliot on “Memoir of a Snail”
MZS
The Unloved, Part 130: Hollow Man
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival 2024: Memoir of a Snail, Better Man, The White House Effect
Features
How Cold War Thrillers Expressed Presidential Campaign Concerns
Tributes
Pioneering Actor-Producer Terry Carter Dies
Features
The Imperiled Women of Alex Garland’s Films
Features
A Gilded Cage: Studying the Animals of Park Chan-wook’s Stoker
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: June 2023
Festivals & Awards
10th Chicago Critics Film Fest Features Past Lives, Blackberry, Sanctuary, Theater Camp, and Many More
Interviews
Not Beholden to Certain Invisible Rules: Anna Bogutskaya on Unlikeable Female Characters
TV/Streaming
Hello Tomorrow! Offers Creative Vision of an Alternate Reality
TV/Streaming
Ten Christmas Movies You Need to Add to Your Holiday Viewing List
Features
This Must Not Be the Place: The Films of Peter Weir
Interviews
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Phyllis Nagy on Call Jane
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2022: A Couple, Bones and All, Master Gardener
Interviews
Leap of Faith: Mark Wahlberg on Father Stu
Tributes
William Hurt: 1950-2022
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2022: When You Finish Saving the World, Living, Call Jane
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: Horror Edition
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2021 Preview: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See
Interviews
My Mother’s Stories: Michael Koresky on Films of Endearment
MZS
The Bonus Situation: Yaphet Kotto, 1939-2021
Features
Book Excerpt: Cinemaphagy: On the Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper by Scout Tafoya
Festivals & Awards
10 Upcoming Films That Could Shake Up Oscar Season
Tributes
Life in the Frame: Michael Apted: 1941-2021
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2020: I’m Happy To Disappoint You: A Gen X Girl’s Undying Love for Ellen Ripley by Kali White VanBaale
Features
SDCC 2020: Do Not Call Charlize Theron a Warrior
MZS
Big and Small: Ian Holm, 1931-2020
Features
The History of The Unloved
MZS
Smile When You Say That: Joker’s Last Laugh
Features
The Best Films of the 2010s: Mad Max: Fury Road
MZS
30 Minutes on: “Alien”
Festivals & Awards
Preview of Film at Lincoln Center’s Horror Festival, Scary Movies XII
Interviews
Tom Skerritt on the 40th Anniversary of Alien, Collaborating with Ridley Scott and More
TV/Streaming
Perpetual Grace, LTD is Your Next TV Obsession
Features
Happy Birthday, Ripley: Alien at 40
Chaz's Journal
The Most Unforgettable Episodes of The Twilight Zone
Interviews
Robert Zemeckis and Steve Carell on Welcome to Marwen, Adding Action and Comedy to a True Story and More
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30 Minutes On: “A Private War”
Interviews
The Legendary Tom Savini on a Career of Special Effects Wizardy and Unforgettable Horror
Features
2018 Fall Movie Preview: 10 Films We’re Excited About
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room August 2018: Women, Aliens, and Dangerous Things: Female Bodies in Alien 3 by Sarah Welch
Interviews
KVIFF 2018: Terry Gilliam Dreams the Impossible Dream
Interviews
There Are No Real Heroes: Brad Anderson on Beirut
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2018 Guests: Part I
Chaz's Journal
Let the River Run: On the 30th Anniversary of Working Girl
TV/Streaming
“Marvel’s The Defenders” Does Bare Minimum For Netflix Fans
Features
Much More than “Star Wars”: The Cinema of ’77 Strikes Back at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Features
Things Have Changed a Great Deal Since Your Time: A Reappraisal of the “Alien” Sequels
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2017: “Lucky,” “La Barracuda,” “Small Crimes”
Features
Bill Paxton: 1955-2017
Features
Thumbnails 2/17/17
Features
Thumbnails 2/1/17
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2017: “The Polka King”
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2017: “It’s Not Yet Dark,” “Oklahoma City,” “The Workers Cup”
Festivals & Awards
2017 Sundance Film Festival Preview
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2017 Announces Premieres, Midnight Films and More
Chaz's Journal
A Baker’s Dozen: 13 More Must-See Films of 2016
MZS
Oliver Stone, Poet of the Id: “The Hand” revisited
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: September 22, 2016
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2016: “American Pastoral,” “A Monster Calls,” “Voyage of Time”
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2016 Preview: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
TV/Streaming
Brad Anderson’s “Session 9”: The Little Leap From Comedy to Killing
Features
Book Review: “Aliens: The Set Photography”
Festivals & Awards
TIFF Announces First Wave of Galas and Special Presentations
MZS
Women’s work: the new “Ghostbusters”
Chaz's Journal
I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts (Unless They’re Women)
Interviews
Feel It All: Drake Doremus on “Equals”
Far Flungers
Star-Crossed Lovers: Favorite Movie Couples
Far Flungers
World UFO Day: Favorite Alien Movies
TV/Streaming
TNT’s “Animal Kingdom” Remake Lacks Its Own Charisma
Features
Thumbnails 4/29/16
Features
Fade to White: “Thelma and Louise” Turns 25
Far Flungers
Lost in Translation: “The Assassin”
Features
Art House Sirens American Western Blu-ray Double Feature: “Duel At Diablo” and “Monte Walsh”
Features
Thumbnails 6/4/15
Features
Book Review: “Chappie: The Art of the Movie”
Features
Book Excerpt: “Mise en scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art” by Adrian Martin
Festivals & Awards
Predictions for the 87th Annual Academy Awards Nominations
TV/Streaming
The Audience Man: “Steven Spielberg Director’s Collection”
TV/Streaming
TV Review: “Gracepoint,” “Stalker” Define Problems with Network Television
Features
Meet the Writers: Jana Monji
Features
Thumbnails 7/25/14
Features
Thumbnails 3/20/14
MZS
The Unloved, Part 3: The Hudsucker Proxy
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