The Criterion Collection releases one of the Blu-ray box sets of the year today as they issue Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise,”“Before Sunset” and “Before Midnight” in a gorgeous box set, loaded with...
Cinephiles whose tastes lean towards the Gallic will want to make arrangements to spend a considerable amount of time over the next two weeks at the Walter Reade Theater in New York. From March 1-12, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, in...
"It’s a strange thing, the whims of fate and destiny," reflected Bill Paxton during his 2001 appearance at Ebertfest. When he passed away on Saturday, I was immediately flooded with fond memories of the man when Roger and I met him all those...
Bill Paxton passed away this weekend at the age of 61. We asked our writers if they wanted to contribute a memory of the underrated actor to supplement our obituary. Below is what we received. Our sincere condolences to his friends and family. He...
1."Peyton Kennedy on 'American Fable,' 'XX' and 'Odd Squad'": The remarkably talented actress chats with me at Indie Outlook about her breakthrough performance in Anne Hamilton's gorgeously lensed picture, now in limited theatrical release...
There’s a revolution itself within the ABC mini-series “When We Rise." It seeks to share with a primetime, non-cable, mass audience the story of the gay civil rights movement across decades, which includes a center-stage depiction of the...
Is “Logan” more powerful because of what the superhero genre has delivered over the last decade? Does it seem both groundbreaking and classic because it doesn’t feel like a modern superhero movie, especially those with the Marvel...
Hulu’s “National Treasure,” not to be confused with the Nicolas Cage franchise of the same name, is a four-episode mini-series about the downfall of a popular comedian. Paul Finchley (Robbie Coltrane) was the more irascible half of...
Who would have guessed that, 50 years later, Bonnie and Clyde would end up stealing the show?Up until the very last award on Sunday night that arrived past midnight, the 89th edition of the Academy Awards was running fairly smoothly...
In a way, it makes a grim sort of sense that the day of the annual presentation of the Oscars would kick off with the sad and startling news that actor/director Bill Paxton had passed away at the age of 61 as the result of complications following...