Stephen Farber is one of the most prominent film critics in the entertainment industry and a well established screenwriter who let us take a closer look inside the mind of a film critic.
What makes iconic antihero characters such as Travis Bickle, Severus Snape, Walter White, and Wanda Maximoff more appealing than traditional heroes?
Three film stories were found in Stanley Kubrick’s library after he died in 1999, and 'Lunatic At Large' is the first to be revived.
The drama of Reddit/GameStop/stocks has barely been going on for a week and isn't even close to over, but ever since it started there have been frequent comparisons to movies and TV shows of the past.
In the past decade Netflix has grown to massive heights, almost singlehandedly shaping the streaming industry in its image. As for the DVD-by-mail business? It's still around, and now branded as "DVD.com," but for how much longer?
At first glance 'Dead Man Walking' looks like a typical piece of liberal Hollywood message-based filmmaking, but the film is different from others in the genre in quite a few key ways and 25 years after its release, it's every bit as devastating as it was upon arrival.
'Wonder Woman 1984' is one of four "woman" movies that arrived not only in 2020 but in the month of December, and here's our opinions of each.
Yes, this is very much a real thing and it will star Mario Lopez as Col. Harlan Sanders, the smoldering romantic lead.
The 1990s were the days of high-concept movies, and what higher concept is there than The American President?
Barry Sonnenfeld's 'Get Shorty', which arrived in theaters 25 years ago last month, was one of the most purely entertaining studio comedies of the 1990s.
'The Press Gang,' the new collection published last month collecting film reviews from the film section of the late New York alt-weekly 'New York Press,' is a welcome tour through an era that's now sadly past.
'A History of Violence' was a significant motion picture for quite a few reasons.It represented David Cronenberg's resurgence, after a few flops in a row, and it's one of the best films ever adapted from a graphic novel.
How did commentaries, opinions, and reviews turn from a social pastime to a profession that has the power to make or break film?
There had been speculation that AMC might end up in bankruptcy; instead, it was Alamo Drafthouse, the beloved, Austin-based cinema.
The week that the GameStop story was in the news streams skyrocketed for six different movies that deal with finance and Wall Street. With the biggest winner being 'The Big Short.'
The film had a fun premise, funny gags, and it was missing a lot of the fat often associated with Sandler comedies; but probably its biggest accomplishment was being able to see modern cultural phenomena coming before its time.
Joan Wai, the director of the Academy's Nicholl Fellowships sat down with us to answer questions and give advice about screenwriting, competitions, and breaking into the film industry.
There's a lot of humor to be mined from the idea of Hollywood coastal elites descending on a small town to make a movie, and in December of 2000, David Mamet's State and Main executed that formula flawlessly.
From Hallmark to Netflix, let’s take a walk through the history of holiday flicks, its huge commercial appeal, and the psychology as to why we crave these stories time and again.
'Syriana,' released 15 years ago, was an Oscar-nominated thriller that featured an all-star cast. While it may not be talked about much now, or anybody's favorite of the decade, it's still very much deserving of another look.
'Morning Glory'. which was released 10 years ago last week, is a TV news comedy that has a lot of charms and grapples with the loss of the soul of the news business.
Though it paints Alan Dershowitz as a hero, 'Reversal of Fortune' was a fascinating "true story" legal procedural that examined both loveless blue blood marriages, and of the conundrum of lawyers defending a client who very well may be guilty.
Christopher Guest had quite a run in the late '90s and early 2000s, producing a series of very funny mockumentaries; the most successful of which being 'Best in Show.' Let's take a look back at this oft-overlooked comedy.
In the era of subscription services, we are given unlimited access to a massive library of content, yet we still find ourselves defaulting back to the same ones over and over again. Well, there's actually a science behind this behavior.