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Movie Review: Luke Gilford takes you on a trip to a queer rodeo in 'National Anthem'

Movie Review: Luke Gilford takes you on a trip to a queer rodeo in 'National Anthem'

If “Barbie” (and Cormac McCarthy) taught us anything, it’s that few symbols herald straight hypermasculinity quite like horses do.
Sarah McLachlan to look back on impact of Lilith Fair with new documentary

Sarah McLachlan to look back on impact of Lilith Fair with new documentary

Sarah McLachlan's legendary all-female music festival Lilith Fair is getting the documentary treatment.
Ron Howard thriller starring Sydney Sweeney among films premiering at TIFF

Ron Howard thriller starring Sydney Sweeney among films premiering at TIFF

Ron Howard’s survival thriller “Eden," starring Jude Law, Sydney Sweeney and Ana de Armas, is among the films set to make a world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Movie Review: Scarlett Johansson lends star power to earthbound ‘Fly Me to the Moon’

Movie Review: Scarlett Johansson lends star power to earthbound ‘Fly Me to the Moon’

“ Fly Me to the Moon ” is better than it looks. This is not a slam against the marketing campaign for the space race rom-com about a straight-laced NASA man and the Madison Avenue marketing savant brought in to sell the mission to the moon.
Paramount and Skydance merge, signaling end of a family reign in Hollywood and the rise of new power

Paramount and Skydance merge, signaling end of a family reign in Hollywood and the rise of new power

NEW YORK (AP) — The entertainment giant Paramount will merge with Skydance, closing out a decades long run by the Redstone family in Hollywood and injecting desperately needed cash into a legacy studio that has struggled to adapt to a shifting entert

‘Despicable Me 4’ debuts with $122.6M as boom times return to the box office

NEW YORK (AP) — After a historically bad first half of the year, the box office is suddenly booming.
'Seven Samurai' at 70: Kurosawa's epic still moves like nothing else

'Seven Samurai' at 70: Kurosawa's epic still moves like nothing else

NEW YORK (AP) — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking.
Fourth shooting in two months hits Richmond Hill, Ont., theatre, police release video

Fourth shooting in two months hits Richmond Hill, Ont., theatre, police release video

Police have released video of what they say is the fourth shooting since mid-May to target a Richmond Hill, Ont., cinema, as investigators appeal for more information.
Movie Review: Hollywood, sleazy 80s-style, in ‘MaXXXine’

Movie Review: Hollywood, sleazy 80s-style, in ‘MaXXXine’

If anything, “MaXXXine” is a love letter to the Los Angeles movie . The third film in this unlikely trilogy (following “X” and “Pearl”) finds Mia Goth’s Maxine Minx in Hollywood in the 1980s. This is not a glamorous existence.

Movie Review: More Minion mayhem in 'Despicable Me 4'

Should a review of a “Despicable Me” movie be a thoughtful analysis or just a list of the funny stuff the Minions do in it? As much as I might believe in the value of film criticism, I kind of suspect that even the finest points of assessment would b