We are at the apex of “Saturday Night Live” appreciation. Now entering its 50th year, “SNL” has never been more unquestioned as a bedrock American institution....
The next screening in Ohio State’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies’ “Magic & Mayhem” Film Series, which will show the 1968 movie “Witchfinder General,” will...
The Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival (GCUFF) is celebrating its 13th year. “It was really inspired by my visit to the Cleveland International Film Festival because...
Sebastian Stan is very good in this droll, distant drama about being unable to escape yourself, but it’s Adam Pearson who brings the film to life....
The idea behind “The Wild Robot” sounds like a paradox: An artificially intelligent machine transforms itself into an emotional creature after exposure to the wilderness. Chris...
The overriding tension in “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime, isn’t so much the...
Death isn’t like it is in the movies, a character explains in “ His Three Daughters. ” Elizabeth Olsen’s Christina is telling her sisters, Katie (Carrie...
Movie origin stories finally reach their nadir this week with “Transformers One,” the super-violent, toy-selling vehicle that tells the tale of how Optimus Prime and Megatron...
Preeti Panigrahi in Girls Will Be Girls. Photo: Juno Films/Everett Collection Early in Shuchi Talati’s Girls Will Be Girls, the film’s protagonist, a precocious high-school senior...
From start to finish, James McAvoy mesmerizes. Courtesy of Universal Pictures Remakes are odious, but Speak No Evil, while thoroughly unneeded and unasked for, is an...
