In 2000, director Richard Linklater helped assemble a retrospective for cult filmmaker Monte Hellman as part of that year’s South by Southwest festival. For the screening of Hellman’s best-known work, the 1971 existential road race film...
NRA members will love lousy pseudo-political horror-thriller "The Purge: Election Year." In fact, the tagline for "Election Year" might as well be "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "Election Year"...
Our final video segment from the 2016 Cannes Film Festival features more exclusive clips from films, many of which still have yet to be released. Far Flung Correspondent Katherine Tulich interviews jury president George Miller as well as actor Joel...
Twenty years ago, Roland Emmerich’s “Independence Day” changed
blockbusters forever in the span of four minutes. After teasing audiences with
45 minutes of mounting tension as city-sized spaceships entered Earth’s
atmosphere...
Sometimes you have to wonder how certain movies get made. I
have no special knowledge of the production of “The Legend of Tarzan.” But I
have to imagine that the movie spent such a long time in the development
process that no one...
Sheila writes: Terrence Malick has spent his career capturing the beauty of waving treetops, sunsets, reflections on water, shadows and sunlight. Vugar Efendi has put together a beautiful and hypnotic video, weaving together the natural scenes in...
With a second-place finish in its opening weekend to “Finding
Dory,” a lower opening frame than the original did in 1996 dollars ($41 million
vs. $50 million), and less critical support (34% on Rotten Tomatoes vs. 62% for
the original),...
Who is America’s most successful
political filmmaker? While most would argue divisive names like Spike Lee or
Michael Moore, I’m going to nominate Gary Ross. You know his films: “Big,” “Dave,”...
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the directing duo that goes by the name “The
Daniels,” nabbed some of the most divisive headlines out of the 2016 Sundance Film
Festival after the premiere of their comedy “Swiss Army Man,”...
1."Aziz Ansari: Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family": Essential commentary from the "Master of None" creator at The New York Times.“Xenophobic rhetoric was central to Mr. Trump’s campaign long before the attack in Orlando. This...