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With cynicism running like a toxic streak through mainstream media, a documentary on sweet, soothing TV host Fred Rogers may strike you as hopelessly nave or just the pep talk we need. Were with the…

W eve just about hit the halfway mark for 2016, and already Deadpool , Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice , Captain America: Civil War and X-Men: Apocalypse have taken cineplexes by storm. August wil…

In a year of stellar documentaries ( Wont You Be My Neighbor, RBG, McQueen ), Minding the Gap takes its place with the cream of the crop. In his debut feature, filmmaker Bing Liu started with 12 yea…

Sinking into the film version of the Paula Hawkins bestselling mystery-thriller The Girl on the Train, the first thing you notice missing is England. Thats right, Hollywood has replaced that misty Lo…

You know what this is? Nirvana for movie lovers. Film historian Kent Jones, the director of the New York Film Festival, triumphantly takes us back to 1962 when the young French filmmaker Francois Tru…

Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland can do anything except, perhaps, save this sentimental drool bucket of senior cinema. Its not their fault: The Leisure Seeker is a road movie that lets its formid…

Theres a saying: When the shit hits the fan, its never evenly distributed. Leon Vitali is describing what a bad day on a Stanley Kubrick set was like. And he knows better than any man alive. Not long…

It is, as advertised, the first film shot in Cuba since Castro came to power in 1959. ( Our Man in Havana , with Alec Guinness, was the last, though the new U.S. open-door policy will likely bring mo…

Sylvester Stallone readies himself for revenge with knives, machine guns and landmines in the new trailer for Rambo: Last Blood , the actors first Rambo movie in 11 years. Most of the action seems to…

Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) teams up with his competitor-turned-ally/crush Art3mis (Olivia Cooke) in the new trailer for Steven Spielbergs Ready Player One . Based on the 2011 novel of the same name by…

There was blood everywhere a lotta blood, Slipknot percussionist Shawn Clown Crahan tells Rolling Stone with glee in his voice. It was on my shoes. It was on my jacket. Itd be on monitors. The per…

A t 26, AldenEhrenreich is in an enviable, though peculiar position. A young actor whos worked with Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen and Warren Beatty, hes already built up an impressive rsum altho…

Ah yes, a superhero story you can sink your teeth into. When Venom claws its way into theaters this weekend, itll mark the biggest moment yet for one of the most infamous villains that Marvels Spide…

Hilary Duff stars as the terrified titular actress in the new trailer for The Haunting of Sharon Tate , the horror film that views the Manson family murders through Tates perspective. Five people Ta…

Talk to most any expert on pop-zombie culture and he or she will mention 28 Days Later , Danny Boyles 2002 contribution to the horror subgenre that helped renew interest in the idea of society crumbl…

Its called the Patriots Oath, a loyalty pledge that requires U.S. citizens to declare allegiance to their country, their government, their President. People do not have to sign it, says a press secr…

Fans of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter okay, there are no fans of that 2012 cinematic fizzle are bound to be intrigued by what writer-director Burr Steers (his Igby Goes Down still resonates wi…

Kristen Stewart might be the most adventurous young actress working today. Instead of playing variations on the Twilight role that made her a star, she keeps pushing ahead into new territory ( Camp…

Ray (Ben Mendelsohn) runs a British manufacturing plant; hes also a pedophile who seduced a neighbor, named Una, when he was 40 and she was only 13. When the now-adult young woman (an emotionally raw…

Zach Galifianakis will turn his interview series Between Two Ferns into a movie premiering September 20th on Netflix. The Between Two Ferns movie will feature a fittingly meta and ridiculous plot. …