Documentarian Steve James got to know film critic Roger Ebert the same way a lot of filmmakers did—when the Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicagoan reviewed [...]

It’s a rare thing, in a summer movie season increasingly clogged with lazy remakes and formulaic sequels, to find a film that is [...]

Acclaimed writer-director Robert Altman didn’t invent the massive, ensemble-cast, anthology-style film. But with movies like Nashville, MASH, Short Cuts and Kansas City, he [...]

Hollywood is one big “What if?” factory. Once upon a time, that meant creating entire imaginary worlds from whole cloth: The Wizard of [...]

Donna Stern is having a very bad ... well, let’s just call it life. She’s a twentysomething comedian struggling for some sliver of [...]

Watching a film by Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson (Mammoth, Together, A Hole in My Heart, Lilya 4-Ever, Show Me Love) is like hanging [...]

[photo]“It’s a very odd idea to make a movie, film, documentary about an artist,” says artist Ralph Steadman at the beginning of For [...]

Historical dramas about slavery based entirely in England are rare creatures. There’s Michael Apted’s 2006 film Amazing Grace and ... well, you can [...]

[photo]Based-on-a-true-story sports movies are typically a dime-a-dozen prospect. You’ve got your legendary coach, your ragtag team of losers and your come-from-behind victory. Masculine [...]

Hollywood’s Renaissance of Raunch continues unabated. Drunken misbehavior, puke-spewing antics, poop jokes and copious amounts of full-frontal male nudity equate to comedy gold [...]