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Rob McElhenney directed one of the very best episodes of television I've seen in the 2020 Emmy cycle. That episode...

On a basic level, Hulu's Normal People is simply the story of two high schoolers living in a small town in...

"Tell me again. I just like to hear the story." With that line, Tony Dalton's Lalo Salamanca became a legend....

It's no overstatement to say Al Pacino is one of our greatest living actors. Hell, it's no grand statement to...

Evil holds a strange and terrible appeal to young Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) in Taika Waititi’s brilliant satire Jojo Rabbit....

If you put a hundred humans on an island to fight for survival or try to eke out a little...

“Always is always forever As long as one is one Inside yourself for your father All is none all is...

A decade ago, Shia LaBeouf's star was on the rise, but at some point he could no longer outrun whatever...

It's not often that a screenwriting team creates their own sub-genre, but that's exactly what the tandem of Larry Karaszewski...

When I first saw the trailer for Netflix's The Two Popes, I wasn't particularly encouraged. I felt the streaming network...

Ford v Ferrari seems to be mostly talked about in awards circles for its tremendous craft work and lead performance by...

Perhaps I should have seen it coming. Buried within the seven films I saw at this year's SCAD Savannah Film...

Give Michelle Pfeiffer her damn Oscar ! Michelle Pfeiffer’s still got it. Fact. A fact that may surprise nobody who...

The Oscars made history in 2017 by awarding a record number of black artists, which showed tremendous progress when it...

We live in an era of at-a-glance numerical assessment. Metacritic, CinemaScores, Rotten Tomatoes, and box office opening weekend tallies are...

It took a hashtag, a boycott, and a massive membership shift to make the machine that drives the Oscar race...

Jeff Nichols quietly made two of the year's best films with Midnight Special and Loving. Both films are about people...

August Wilson wanted to expand perceptions in America, to tell the stories that don't get told. Even though he began his...

The heart opens us up to love, but every time it’s the beginning of a long goodbye. Our time here...

If you think back over Oscar history and wonder why no films about journalists have ever won Best Picture, it...