Movies

Of all the sophomore seasons of television released in the last decade, “House of the Dragon” remains one of the most perplexing. While the acting was still on par with season one, the plot meandered with no sense of...

Nearly five years ago, in August of 2021, Maya Cade unveiled Black Film Archive. Her online database, with films spanning from the early days of cinema to, at the time, the 1970s, put many rare films and treasures of...

Founded by Geena Davis in 2015, the Bentonville Film Festival launches its 2026 edition on Monday, leading to a week of events, screenings, and cultural resonance in the heartland of the country. Bentonville has quietly developed a reputation for...

Movies are back! At least that’s what people who love film have been saying in the first half of 2026, largely due to the wild success of Curry Barker’s “Obsession” and Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms.” If we were doing a...

Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to take another look at what Roger Ebert thought about some...

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that summer is a season of romance. Full of long days, lingering sunsets, warm beaches, and often powered by a sense of nostalgia for the freedom and adventure of our younger days, it’s a...

Alternately known as Baltimore’s Pope of Trash and Prince of Puke, transgressive filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist John Waters is a true American original. Born when Truman was president, and raised in the atomic mid-century Eisenhower era, where rock...