Film, TV & Streaming

42 Almost Makes a Flesh-and-Blood Man of Its Hero

Room 237 Argues The Shining Contains Everything

Beyond the Hills: A Romanian Exorcism Movie of Sorts

Blancanieves Is Witty, Riveting, and Gorgeous

Theory: The Shining is about the genocide of Native Americans. Evidence: The Overlook Hotel’s Navajo décor; Calumet baking powder cans (logo: an Indian chief) appear at moments when characters are “making treaties”; Nicholson’s Jack Torrance asks a phantom bartender to commiserate about “the white man’s burden”; the Overlook is built…

In The Company You Keep, Robert Redford and Co. Face the ’60s in their 70s

In Trance, the Crime (and Confusion) Is in the Mind

Leviathan Is a Watery Knockout

Carbon Nation: A Green Economy Is a Labor Economy

A common sentiment recurs through the abundance of eulogies and obituaries penned by film critics in the wake of his death late last week: Roger Ebert was an inspiration. It’s easy enough to be encouraged by another’s success—to regard an esteemed elder colleague with a combination of admiration and envy—but…

The Place Beyond the Pines Is the Year’s First Stab at a Masterpiece

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a film that inspires strong reactions, and people have been trying to pin down what it’s really about almost since the day it was released. With Room 237, first-time feature director Rodney Ascher has gone deeper down the rabbit hole than anyone before him, bringing…

Thanks to her otherworldly cuteness, wide-eyed “perma-kitten” Lil Bub is the Internet’s favorite celebri-kitty. Her bright green eyes sparkle with perpetual wonder, and her little pink tongue sticks out beneath an upper lip that’s always smiling. She’s also polydactyl — meaning she has thumbs. When her human, Mike Bridavsky, needs…

The last time James Franco was in Miami on a cultural mission, it was to show his own art at OHWOW’s Art Basel satellite fair. That might be where Franco hooked up with fellow OHWOW exhibitor Harmony Korine, who later directed a cornrowed, gold-toothed Franco in this year’s Spring Breakers…

Did you spend your Saturday night watching The Rachel Zoe Project marathon? Have you gotten into verbal altercations over Beverly Hills versus Orange Country? Is your boyfriend hiding his love for Nene Leakes like a meth habit? These are all signs of a full-blown Bravo addiction. You aren’t the only…

O Cinema’s mini-Kubrick Film Festival, “Stanley Kubrick: The Man & His Movies,” has made a last-minute addition to its participants. Matthew Modine, the lead actor in the iconic director’s 1987 Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket, and more recently seen in The Dark Knight Rises, will appear via Skype for a…

Legendary film critic Roger Ebert died of cancer yesterday at age 70. For almost half a century, Ebert’s sharp assessments and lovable humor guided America’s film audiences, through his post as film critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, his TV shows with Gene Siskel (and later, Richard Roeper), and his film…

How Evil Dead Director Fede Alvarez Reimagined the Classic Splatterfest

Jurassic Park 3D Review: Spielberg Still Thrills

Bert Stern: Original Madman Review: A Sometimes Uncomfortably Intimate Portrait

The Sapphires Movie Review: The Sweet Pull of Soul Tune Harmony

The Silence Movie Review: Taut, Beautifully Acted Thriller