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The reviews for each new “Mission: Impossible” entry — and by extension every new Tom Cruise movie — are becoming harder and harder to start, because ...

Big budgets, an avalanche of advertising and beautiful stars are among the key elements of producing a successful summer blockbuster. Even with the wa...

Hollywood loves stories about unlikely heroes seemingly out of their element who step up and use their unique set of skills to save the day. Luke Skyw...

The filmography of writer/director Ryan Coogler isn’t too lengthy for someone who’s been in the business for only 12 years, but the five films he’s ma...

With the heights that the James Bond and Mission: Impossible film franchises have reached in the past decade or two, the spy thriller movie is an uphi...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the State Legislature’s all-Democrat majorities still can’t agree on a new state budget, but they’ve shown where they’re headed ...

Standing on the Oscar stage, accepting the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for “American Fiction,” writer/director Cord Jefferson said what ...

No, you’re not imagining it — movies are getting longer. While the top movies during the Golden Age of Hollywood were around 100 minutes, the average ...

For the first time since 2012 and only the 11th time in the Academy’s history, a romantic comedy has won Best Picture at this year’s Oscars. For a mov...

Last year, I watched the medical drama “ER” in its entirety — all 331 episodes in order spanning 15 seasons from September 1994 to April 2009. And in ...

There is something novel and exciting about a new movie evoking the choices and styles of cinema from decades past. With the trend of more movies bein...

Staying on top of everything the Marvel Cinematic Universe does has become impossible for the average moviegoer. Right from the opening, “Brave New Wo...

For 50 years, people have stayed up until 11:30 on Saturday night to see a group of improvisers and comedians perform sketches featuring celebrity gue...

The middle of winter is often a dead zone for new movies. With the slew of big holiday releases already in theaters for some weeks and few blockbuster...

If you’re like me, you have your smartphone on you all the time. I actually need it for work, but the amount of time I spend scrolling through social ...

I hate to give Mel Gibson any praise or a compliment of any kind these days, but the guy knows how to direct a movie. As displayed in the trailer for ...

More than any other reason, I love movies because of the artistry and craftsmanship that goes into bringing them to the silver screen. Dozens if not h...

What once seemed impossible is steadily growing into one of the most popular and successful movie franchises of the 2020s, and “Sonic the Hedgehog” sh...