The M Report

Hollywood loves to make films about musicians, especially popular or successful ones. It's likely that eventually a film will be made about ea…

The 1847 novel by Emily Brontë is considered one of the greatest pieces of English literature. It's regarded as a classic in writing. It's bee…

Elle Fanning recently was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the film Sentimental Value (2025), which is an international feature that …

Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa worked together in the hit and Oscar-winning blockbuster, Dune (2021). Neither were the headliners in that film.…

There have been so many spy shows that have come and gone, just within the past year. The Agency (2024) on Paramount+ wrapped up its first sea…

Sam Raimi is a filmmaker who is known for doing horror comedies. Often, his works incorporate some kind of supernatural elements. His signatur…

Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids and Insidious) stars as Linda, a therapist living in Long Island, New York. Her husband is currently away on a work tr…

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997). They wouldn't write together again until T…

This is the fourth installment in the series that began with 28 Days Later (2002), which was a zombie film. It was followed by 28 Weeks Later …

The nominations for the 98th Academy Awards were announced today. Sinners (2025) by Ryan Coogler broke the record for most nominations for a s…

The only exception is here that I am not a subscriber to Apple TV. A lot of shows on that streaming service have been critically acclaimed and…

Every year, I try my best to listen to as much new music as possible. I use Amazon Music and Spotify. Of course, there's too much music for th…

In the 1990's, there was an explosion of Black cinema, particularly crime dramas that depicted life in the hood or on the streets, such as the…

The territory of Greenland has been in the news this year because the Trump administration has made comments and overtures to purchase the pla…

13 years ago, Universal Pictures released a film of the same name by Daniel Espinosa that's about a CIA facility in South Africa where the foc…

Geeta Gandbhir is the daughter of an immigrant from India. She made a name for herself when she met Spike Lee at Harvard University where she …

A strong entry in immigrant stories premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival where it won awards, especially for its titular star. In fact, …

Idris Elba and John Cena have worked together before. They co-starred in James Gunn's The Suicide Squad (2021), a comic book adaptation that w…

Viola Davis might be in her action or blockbuster phase. A lot of actors have such a phase. Some maintain it for their whole career like Tom C…

Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown and Call Me By Your Name) stars as Marty Mauser, a 23-year-old, Jewish boy living in New York City in 19…

Emma Stone has won the Oscar for Best Actress twice. Once was for La La Land (2016) and recently for Poor Things (2023), which was directed by…

Sixteen years ago, James Cameron introduced us to the world of Pandora and the alien species, known as the Na'vi. It wasn't difficult for peop…

This film premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in 2024 where filmmaker Rungano Nyoni won a directing award. It was released in the Unite…

This film won the People's Choice Award at the 50th Annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Those within the Hollywood industry or …

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 …