Movies

Mel Brooks’ “Silent Movie,” released 50 years ago this week, is a beautiful beast of a film. It’s about a director named Mel Funn (Brooks in his first leading role) who, alongside his two faithful friends Marty Eggs (Marty...

It’s hard to think of a contemporary actor more attuned to the frequency of the oddball than Tony Hale. The 55-year-old actor has spent decades on both the big and small screens channeling his expressive face and chutes-and-ladders...

In a storied career that spans six decades, the incomparable Alfre Woodard has been a formidable onscreen presence, delivering finely etched performances across a variety of film and television projects.Whether the Oscar nominee (for 1983’s “Cross Creek”) and four-time...

By 1995, Black cinema had once again taken a foothold in mainstream culture. Young Black directors like John Singleton, Spike Lee, The Hughes Brothers, Ernest R. Dickerson, Doug McHenry, Reginald Hudlin, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Rusty Cundieff and Matty Rich...

The fact that, despite many years of development, no one has managed to give us a remake of “Logan’s Run” in 50 years almost makes you believe in the existence of a benevolent intelligence controlling filmdom. Not that the...

In recent years, no genre has been more prolific on television than the espionage thriller. In 2026 alone, audiences have been gifted season two of Prime’s “The Night Manager,” Peacock’s “Ponies,” and season three of Netflix’s “The Night Agent.”...

I ran into J. Christopher Hamilton at the Cannes Film Festival last month, the first time we’d crossed paths in nearly 20 years. Back then, we both worked at Disney in Burbank, where Hamilton was in business affairs....

NPR's A Martinez talks to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Gael García Bernal about the re-release of "Amores Perros." The film launched their careers and ushered in a new era of Latin American cinema....

Aleshea Harris’ seething, stylish “Is God Is” vibrates on a frequency that’s hard to fully get one’s arms around. It’s a séance for the anger that Black women share, an exorcism for the indignities we’ve been forced to swallow...

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...