“Against the Grain” (1993), featuring John Terry as high school coach Ed Clemons, and Affleck as his son, the hunky young football player Joe Willie Clemons, was loosely based on Friday Night Lights.

Though it’s only been a year since the 77th Locarno Film Festival, it felt like an eternity waiting for this one. This was my second year making the pilgrimage to the scenic seaside Swiss town that ...

In the original, he has an ability to imbue seemingly ordinary footage of people setting up a haunted house with mounting ...

Lasse Hallström ‘s latest film, “The Map That Leads to You,” has the makings of a Gen Z “Before Sunset” meets “Eat Pray Love, ...

Love, obsession, power, and attention collide to thrilling and frightening effect in Alex Russell’s feature-length ...

The Twisted tale of Amanda Knox” just doesn’t add enough new to the conversation for anyone who knows this story.

Locarno Film Festival’s yearly, rotating retrospective is almost always the best and surest ticket in town. Take last year’s ...

That combination of setting and race, moreover, anticipates another film from a later era: Melvin Van Peebles’s “The Story of ...

Based on Yoshiharu Tsuge’s manga Mr. Ben and his Igloo, A View of the Seaside, “Tabi to Hibi” also sees Miyake pulling off ...

Gunn has doubled down on the small moments that made this series stand out, crafting a second season that almost feels like ...

We soon learn that Jimmy’s substance abuse problems are the source of tension between him and his old buddy Stiggs Randolph ...

The very idea seems a little off, but that’s part of what makes the movie such a profound delight. The movie begins with a ...