It can often be a blessing and a curse when a series gets a two-season order. Yes, it’s nice to give creators a vote of confidence to extend their storytelling across multiple seasons. On the other hand, it sometimes leads to seasons like the third of Apple TV +’s once-excellent “Silo,” an outing that feels

Take this as a sequel to my piece that ran two days ago, “Retreating From The Elephant,” about the dismal state of the independent American cinema. Here we look at the hard-yet-uplifting sophomore feature “Millennium Bugs” by Alejandro Montoya Marín, his version of a 2000s feel-good comedy. The devil works hard, but Alejandro works harder.

The boom of superhero television shows that began to dominate the genre at the beginning of the 2020s has thankfully receded. It’s not to say that there isn’t value in the superhero genre expanding to a different medium, but the sheer number of series released within the Marvel universe quickly became a chore to consume

The physical media box set market has slowed in recent years as studios have kinda run out of collections to release. So we wanted to highlight two of the coolest such releases in a very long time, box sets aimed at fans of two icons of film history: Steven Spielberg and Jackie Chan. The former

To mark its 25th anniversary, the 2026 iteration of New York’s Tribeca Film Festival presented no fewer than 118 feature films—103 of them world premieres—over the course of 12 days, coming from all parts of the world and covering an astonishing array of genres.  Tribeca has, of course, always been a festival that relies on

Mel Brooks’ “Silent Movie,” released 50 years ago this week, is a beautiful beast of a film. It’s about a director named Mel Funn (Brooks in his first leading role) who, alongside his two faithful friends Marty Eggs (Marty Feldman) and Dom Bell (Dom DeLuise) embark on an ambitious project: to make a film that

You can’t write a comprehensive account of the history of television without including James Burrows. If he had only co-created “Cheers,” that would probably be true, or if he had only directed every single episode of “Will & Grace.” He brought new meaning to the word “prolific,” helming over a thousand episodes of comedic television

Even if you haven’t watched season one of Apple TV’s “Sugar,” you probably already know about its wacky end-of-season plot twist. Debuting in 2024, the series focuses on private investigator John Sugar (Colin Farrell), who specializes in missing-persons cases, inspired by his sister, who went missing years earlier. No matter the particulars of the case,

Boots Riley is the most dangerous man in Hollywood. He’s not a filmmaker. He is an enigma, a revolutionary fighting against capitalism with a pen and a lens. From his musical prowess as the frontman for the conscious hip-hop group The Coup to his community activism with the International Committee Against Racism (InCAR) and California’s

While watching Kristoffer Borgli’s “The Drama,” I thought a lot about Zendaya’s Blackness within the shell of this character. The film never questions her identity in any meaningful way. We know that she is biracial; this is acknowledged in the film’s text. We may also surmise that her race played some role in her bullying and