The annual Virginia Student Film Festival will return this weekend Friday and Saturday, showing students’ short films in addition to a speaker panel taking place at Monroe Hill House.
“Project Hail Mary” — a new science-fiction blockbuster based on Andy Weir’s best-selling novel — was released Friday to critical acclaim.
Almost every major actor has this “budding performance,” one which began to showcase their talents before the rest of the industry caught on.
Instead of centering on the monster’s suffering, director Maggie Gyllenhaal provokes questions about the woman created for him — the Bride — and what she ultimately wants out of her life.
The good news, however, is that if 2025 was a year for the man, 2026 is taking on a more diversified portfolio, with plenty of women in the coming months’ titles.
While many films contain mistaken anachronisms, deliberate usage can help provide relatability to a historical period.
Fennell has established herself as a director interested in the intersections of sex and death with her previous work including 2023’s “Saltburn” and 2020’s “Promising Young Woman.” “Wuthering Heights” is no deviation from this trend, to both her strength and detriment.
There are many great sports scenes in movies that are not sports movies. As such, and in honor of Super Bowl LX, here are some of the best football scenes from non-football movies.
With some simply set in snowy areas and some with climactic snow-graced moments, these films are perfect to match — and help you withstand — the days ahead.
As winter tightens its hold, Netflix’s Jan. 9 launch of “People We Meet on Vacation” directed by Brett Haley brings some much needed sunshine to the screen.
These four scores remind listeners that their lives, too, can be just as cinematic as the tales told in theaters
Park Chan-wook uses a combination of sharp dialogue, slapstick humor and beautiful camera work to explore the depths that a man might go to save his family
In his newest release “Asteroid City,” Anderson presents a healthy dose of that signature flair his fans know so well. With the help of a star-studded cast and co-writer Roman Coppola, the filmmaker explores the artistic process and what it means to be a storyteller.
“Into the Spider-Verse” carefully curated Miles’s 2D comic book world, but “Across the Spider-Verse” introduces a greater variety of animation.
The film is the most controversial of Aster’s work by far for good reason, however, it seems to fulfill exactly what he ultimately wanted — for audiences to walk out of the theater wanting to throw up, questioning everything they just saw and afraid to call their mother back.
From beginning to end, the movie’s plotting remains boldly abstract — filtering the protagonist’s growing isolation through a medley of surreal horror imagery — as well as tantalizing visions of both her past and potential future.
This group of ten films — both grand and small, both fun and serious — capture the essence of what the film industry of today aims to do with its work.
A lesser filmmaker likely would have succumbed to the repetition and lack of dramatic variation inherent in the premise, but Bay’s film never devolves into noisy tedium.
Far too often do people fall into the trap of watching white savior films or films that only capture the trauma and none of the joy of the Black experience.
