At SDCC, people wait in lines. Sometimes you choose the wrong line. Who hasn't? Sometimes the line is chosen for you. Sometimes the masters of the line are unfair. And perceived unfairness—real or imaginary—causes anger to percolate and...
Walking into the Amazon Prime activation for the world premiere of "The Boys," I immediately realized this might not be the kind of programming that I'd normally watch. The rows of chairs each had a red foam hand giving the finger. Our party...
Victory Gardens Theater, the wonderful performance venue located in the historic space once known as the Biograph Theater—where famed gangster John Dillinger met his immortal end—will be introducing debuting playwrights Chaz Ebert and...
The title of the ninth film by Quentin Tarantino, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” is meant to recall Sergio Leone’s masterpiece “Once Upon a Time in the West.” It's a nod to the Western genre influence on...
I had a blast with the genuinely crowd-pleasing action-comedy “Extreme Job,” about a bumbling police squad that takes over a chicken shop for a stakeout, but eventually are stuck running the small business. The movie, directed by Lee...
Directors Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer faced two big challenges with “The Great Hack,” their terrifying documentary about the role that now-disgraced and defunct Cambridge Analytica played in distorting the politics of the US, UK, and...
Liz Garbus’ HBO docuseries “Who Killed Garrett Phillips?” asks a question in its title that it not only can’t answer but doesn’t seem particularly interested in doing so. This is not a typical crime documentary, which...
Matt writes: This Thursday, July 25th, and next Tuesday, July 30th, the 1979 classic, "The Muppet Movie," produced by Jim Henson and directed by James Frawley, will be returning to the big screen for its 40th anniversary, courtesy of Fathom...
"Cash Only" director Malik Bader is quickly making a name for himself in the world of crime thrillers, with his original script throwbacks to nitty and gritty tales of bad guys and even worse deals. His latest, “Killerman” (which...
“The effect of my personal life on my work is much more significant than anything else,” Abbas Kiarostami said to me during the interviews collected in my book Conversations with Kiarostami. At the time, we were discussing Where Is the...