Let's just get this out of the way before folks become confused. This isn't the 2004 Nicholas Sparks sap-fest that featured abysmal performances [...]

The incredibly empathetic indie drama Love Is Strange accomplishes a deft sleight-of-hand trick. It takes a contentious, hot-button issue (gay marriage) and uses [...]

Several years ago mid-’90s indie film icon Kevin Smith announced he was going to retire from the filmmaking biz. Stinging from the sale [...]

Tagged on to the quiet end of a roller-coaster summer at the box office is the slow-burn, gloom-and-doom crime drama The Drop. This [...]

Mitch and Colin have been friends for a long time. Years ago they found themselves married to a pair of sisters. Mitch’s wife [...]

Films rarely come more “outsidery” than the quirky, music-minded black comedy Frank. It’s not that the film is out of grasp of the [...]

Plenty of musicians have been deemed worthy of the documentary/biopic treatment. And why not? They’re typically charismatic people. They’re creative. And they often [...]

[photo]The key to watching a new Woody Allen film is figuring out which Woody you’re in for. There’s the fairly serious, film-literate Woody [...]

Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey have combined their emotion-manipulating powers to deliver audiences a serving of cinematic comfort food. The focus of this [...]

Summer movie season is not the time of year most people rely on for intelligent, well-thought-out science fiction. With stuff like Transformers: Age [...]