The M Report

Based on the 1891 play by Henrik Ibsen, filmmaker Nia DaCosta (The Marvels and Candyman) adapts this Norwegian story, setting it in 1950's Eng…

At the end of the year, there are certain accolades and acknowledgments that specifically spotlight, independent films. They include the Gotha…

This is the third in the film series that began with Knives Out (2019), which introduced the private detective and super sleuth, known as Beno…

If it were possible for a TV show to be a blockbuster, this series would definitely fit the bill. It is by far one of the most-watched program…

Mark Ruffalo is a celebrated, veteran actor who has been nominated four times for the Oscar. He's been up for all other major awards, includin…

Alex Woo is the founder and CEO of Kuku Studios, an independent animation company. Woo was born and raised in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He moved …

If one has seen the HBO series Entourage (2004), one won't be too surprised with the bulk of what's depicted here. The difference is that the …

Based on a novella by Denis Johnson, which was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, it's about the life and times of a man who'…

The previous feature grossed over $1 billion in the box office. It won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 89th Academy Awards, nearly …

The sequel to the hit 2024 musical is less good and more wicked, or more bad. The 2024 film was more rousing, more engaging and more comedic. …

Guillermo del Toro is the Oscar-winning filmmaker who is known for his narratives about monsters. Often, his stories make those monsters the h…

In the summer of 2025, Israel attacked Iran destroying nuclear facilities because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that Iran was devel…

Zach Cregger is an actor who mainly did comedy television in the early 2000's. His 2011 debut feature was an adaptation of his series The Whit…

The title is perhaps meant to be ironic. The title suggests a very smart person who creates a scheme or a plan for committing a crime that is …

Bruce Springsteen is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from New Jersey. He's sold more than 140 million records. He's one of the best-selling …

After President Bill Clinton took office in 1993, our 42nd U.S. President, he instituted a policy at the Department of Defense called "Don't A…

Recently, there was a murder mystery that took place pretty much entirely on a large boat, that of Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile (2022),…

Channing Tatum was in the biggest live-action film of last year, that of Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) where he played the superhero, comic …

A news story was reported in September of this year that the Amtrak Police Department, a federal police force that operates outside New York C…

30 years ago, at the 58th Academy Awards, Héctor Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Adapt…

Benjamin Howard won a regional Emmy Award for a short film called Deviant (2018) that he did about a LGBTQ teenager who was conflicted about h…

This could be considered an adaptation of a Bible story, a story that  comes from "The Book of Ruth." The story is about a woman who becomes a…

Walter Mosley is an African American author who has been publishing books since the 1990's. He's currently written several dozen. Mosley came …

Over 20 years ago, HBO aired a documentary called The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr (2002). It was about a…

The shortlist for Makeup and Hairstyling for the 97th Academy Awards included this film, written and directed by Bill Fishman, who mostly work…

Paul Thomas Anderson wrote and directed There Will Be Blood (2007), which is Anderson's fifth feature and is considered one of the greatest fi…

Sally El Hosaini is a Welsh-Egyptian filmmaker who released this, her third feature. It was co-directed by James Krishna Floyd who is an Engli…

Paul Mescal is probably most known now for his role in the recent blockbuster sequel, Gladiator II (2024). He was nominated for an Emmy Award …

Justin Tipping is the director here, but most people might think that Jordan Peele is the director. Peele is instead the producer. Yet, this f…

Michael Strassner is the star, the writer and producer of this film. He's originally from Baltimore, Maryland. He moved to Los Angeles to purs…

A Stephen King adaptation is a loaded statement. Depending on the filmmaker, we could get something amazing like Carrie (1976), The Shining (1…

One crazy night or even one crazy day is a genre of films that usually involves a story that takes place within a period of 24 hours or less. …

James Sweeney is a young filmmaker from Alaska. This film is his second feature as director. His debut was Straight Up (2020) in which Sweeney…

This year, the final season of And Just Like That... (2021) aired. The series on HBO Max was a spin-off of the hit program, Sex and the City (…

The hook of this film is that it purports to be about a married couple in an open relationship, meaning the husband and wife can have sex with…

This is an adaptation of a series of best-selling books by Richard Osman about a group of retired, British professionals, middle-aged or elder…

If you don't know who Riz Ahmed is, he is a British actor of Pakistani descent. He did some critically acclaimed, British films before being c…

Akira Kurosawa directed High and Low (1963), an adaptation of a 1959 novel about a wealthy man who has to decide over using all the money he h…

This film got a limited theatrical release. It's an animated musical that got a special, sing-along edition that's playing in cinemas for the …

This series was developed and produced for AMC Networks and the executive producer is Mark Johnson, one of the guys behind Better Call Saul (2…

Ever since the iconic Groundhog Day (1993), the concept of a time-loop narrative has been popularized. So many films and TV shows adopted the …

Amrou Al-Kadhi is a queer nonbinary, British artist who comes from an Iraqi family. They are an author. Their debut was Unicorn: The Memoir of…

The original, comedy film in 1988 opened with an American beating up a bunch of Middle Eastern leaders who were simply deemed terrorists, incl…

Next year will be the 30th anniversary of Happy Gilmore (1996). It starred Adam Sandler who was one of the breakout stars of Saturday Night Li…

This is the 37th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU. Yet, it's not connected to any of the 36 films that came before. It's its own,…

This is the third theatrical film based on the novel of the same name. The 1997 feature was a huge box office success. It was number-one for t…

James Gunn has made a name for himself with making superhero films and TV shows that center anti-heroes or people who one would never assume t…