Movies

The 30th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is upon us, perhaps the largest genre film festival in the world (and, for my money, my favorite), setting nearly three weeks aside at the tail end of July to...

“Little House on the Prairie” is an American institution. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s fictionalized semi-autobiographical accounts of growing up on the American frontier in the 1870s and 1880s have been wildly popular since the first book’s original publication in 1932...

For thirteen years now, Ubisoft has been chasing a pirate. While there have been some great “Assassin’s Creed” games since the 2013 release of “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag” (I’m particularly fond of “Origins” and “Odyssey”), and a truly...

The first thing you need to know about comedian-turned-actor-turned-filmmaker John Early‘s performance in “Maddie’s Secret” is that it is, at its core, deeply serious. It is also, at least in Early’s estimation, not drag, despite the central character at...

We certainly have a glut of these shows—you know the ones where thin white people convene on a cold beach to compare notes and solve intrigues. Nicole Kidman has practically made a cottage industry out of them: “Big Little...

The 60th Karlovy Vary International Film is still in its early stages, but it’s already showing a wealth of wonderful films. In this dispatch, you’ll find three films of differing origins. One is a world premiere in the festival’s...

In Czech director Jana Hojdová’s raw, brazenly honest documentary, “Robert Richardson: The White Devil,” the legendary director of photography finds himself in a curious position. After decades capturing a plethora of towering films: “Platoon,” “Born on the Fourth of...

July 4th marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. Speaking as someone old enough to have personally experienced the 200th anniversary way back in 1976—talking to my children about history, I used to...