Thursday, Jun. 6, 2024

One cinematographer described the limited series he lensed as perhaps “the most personal project I’ve ever done.”

Another DP found it gratifying to get the opportunity to work with groundbreaking director Mimi Leder.

Our third cinematographer valued his return engagement with not...

Thursday, May. 30, 2024

There are moments when the spark of creation suddenly ignites and history stops. Like when the Wright brothers got a plane to fly. Or when Oreo added double filling. Maybe just as resonant was when Jim Henson cut up his mother's green coat into odd shapes and added ping-pong balls for eyes....

Thursday, May. 30, 2024

In August 1926, a 19-year-old New Yorker named Trudy Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had finished the 21-mile trek from Cape Gris-Nez in France to Kingsdown Beach in England before — a harrowing journey through frigid waters, unpredictable tides, currents...

Wednesday, May. 29, 2024

It's one of those strange but immutable truths of the movies that a song like Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" can play in roughly a thousand films before a movie about a dog and a robot comes along and blows them all out of the water.

The animated "Robot Dreams" is wordless, so the...

Thursday, May. 23, 2024

For a guy like Glen Powell, the ascent to movie stardom isn't really a question. It's more like an inevitability.

Blessed with that square jawline, those bright green eyes, a flop of dirty blonde hair and the kind of symmetrical smile that would seem suspect if it weren't so darn charming...

Monday, May. 20, 2024

At the beginning of "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," we are introduced to a kick-ass woman who rides a horse, then a motorbike, nails a few bad guys with sharpshooting finesse and fights off a mob. But it's not Furiosa — it's her mom.

That's one of the oddities of this latest offering in the...

Wednesday, May. 15, 2024

You know what? It's true. They never do tell you about the placenta.

Let us explain. But first, let's also point out that if you're already queasy at the mention of "placenta," well, "Babes" — director Pamela Adlon's brash, chaotic, hilarious and occasionally overly gooey (in so many ways...

Wednesday, May. 8, 2024

In sibling directors Bill and Turner Ross ' latest, "Gasoline Rainbow," five Oregon teens just out of high school make their meandering way some 500 miles to reach the coast for what's been billed as the "End of the World" party.

They are like countless young protagonists before them: on...

Wednesday, May. 8, 2024

Fans of the "Planet of the Apes" franchise may still be mourning the 2017 death of Caesar, the first smart chimp and the charismatic ape leader. Not to worry: He haunts the next episode, the thrilling, visually stunning "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes."

We actually start with Caesar's...

Thursday, May. 2, 2024

The films of Ryusuke Hamaguchi unspool with elegant everyday ease and yet anything can happen.

Lives take sudden detours. Seemingly minor characters become primary ones. People are brought together by mysterious connections. There are even, as in the case of his "Asako I & II,"...

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