I monitored the box office, read the trades, and spoke to smart people who work in each sector of the industry—and there’s one consensus. On the one hand, you’ve got to applaud the creativity. On the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How many children are really into movies that deal with urban development and city environmental policy? Leave it to Pixar, though ...
If you want answers, turn to someone whose work you’ve certainly seen in the wild: the short-form-video prodigy Adam Faze. As the 2025 movie season comes to a close this weekend, we’re thinking about ...
As the 2025 movie season comes to a close this weekend, we’re thinking about the future. More specifically, the future of ambitious, original films—both the ones that are up for awards and the ones ...
When I first heard the phrase “the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other” — a phrase often attributed to the theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) — I knew it named something important about ...
A couple of months ago, in a small screening room at the Music Box Theatre, the strangest thing happened: An elderly woman seated beside me grabbed my hand, then, realizing what she had done, quickly ...
“Hoppers” might be built with familiar parts, but Pixar’s latest isn’t trying to hide its various influences. Instead, this buoyant, freewheeling adventure about a spirited 19-year-old environmental ...
A recurrent theme in movies aimed at younger audiences is often the idea of sharing — learning to coexist in harmony with the many different occupants of the world around us. It’s an important lesson ...
One of Tom Cruise’s best movies fans say is “underrated” but “holds up” more than 30 years after its original release is now available to stream on Netflix. The streaming service added the iconic 1990 ...
It’s almost hard to describe how astonishingly bad “Scream 7” is — though it isn’t entirely surprising considering the circumstances surrounding the film and the lead-up to its production. In 2023, ...
The 98th annual Academy Awards are shaping up to be one to remember for fans. The Academy Awards, aka the Oscars, honor the top films of the past year in 24 categories, offering a mix of cinematic ...
“Hoppers” isn’t afraid to get a bit weird, the latest offering from Disney-owned Pixar Animation Studios sporting an irreverent streak we’ve not seen in a while from a major-studio animated release.