The following table of contents features a wealth of "Star Trek" 50th anniversary coverage, along with other panel reports from the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, published at RogerEbert.com by Jana Monji and Nell Minow. Click on each title, and you...
The following table of contents features a wealth of "Star Trek" 50th anniversary coverage, along with other panel reports from the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, published at RogerEbert.com by Jana Monji and Nell Minow. Click on each title, and you...
You could tell during this year's San Diego Comic-Con that the 50th anniversary of "Star Trek: The Original Series" was very much in the mind of pop culture and science fiction fans. But if you weren't able to make it to SDCC, there are still ways...
“I want to teach you how to hold the camera.”
That’s what Steve Gleason, the former safety for the New
Orleans Saints, tells his wife Michel Varisco in an early scene from “Gleason,”
a documentary about his struggle...
“Equity'"s main claim to fame is that it’s the first female-dominated depiction of the cutthroat dealings that define greed-is-good, ethics-are-overrated Wall Street. Given that most movies with plots revolving around the high-stakes...
Over the years, I have found that quiet post-apocalyptic scenarios, which focus more on characters trying
to survive in their new circumstances, are usually more interesting than those interested in hardware and spectacle. I'm thinking about films...
“Indignation,” the directing debut of the longtime
independent film producer and executive James Schamus, is a movie so
insistently out of step with contemporary American cinema as to be considered
practically defiant. Adapted from a...
Throughout her 40-year career in documentary filmmaking, Barbara Kopple has often focused her lens on people who are studies in perseverance. The courageous wives of the miners in Kopple’s Oscar-winning 1976 debut, “Harlan County,...
When writer/director Sian Heder introduced “Tallulah” at this year’s past Sundance Film Festival, it was revealed that she was around six months pregnant during production. She also shared that when she received the call about the...
The “land” to which this movie’s title refers is not a plot
of arable property. No, it’s the diminutive of Cleveland, lately the site of
the Republican National Convention, dubbed by some wags “the mistake by...