In the 1984 feel-good flick The Karate Kid, a teenager stands up to a bully and triumphs. Writer-director Riley Stearns (Faults, The Club) puts a serious spin on that narrative with his new dark comedy The Art of Self-Defense, an offbeat movie that created a sensation when it debuted at South by Southwest earlier this year.
Billed as a "photorealistic computer-animated musical drama film," The Lion King, the latest Disney remake, takes the 1994 animated film of the same name and...
There's not much to criticize in the country-music-infused Scottish working-class drama Wild Rose. Nor, however, is there much to get overly enthused about. Rose-Lynn (Jessie...
More than a decade ago, actresses Vanessa and Laura Marano, teenagers at the time, convinced their mother to option the rights to Alyson Noel's award-winning...
Of all the extravagant, ritualistic horrors that ultimately befall the five grad-student protagonists in Midsommar, very few occur under cover of darkness. Writer-director Ari...
Even if you’re tired of seeing Spider-Man remakes, you should stick around for Spider-Man: Far From Home, which features Tom Holland’s (Peter Parker) endearingly...
By Alexandra Sobczak and Evey Weisblat
Jul 2, 2019 12:36 pm
It's arguably tougher than ever to become a successful musician. While social media can help spread the good word, there's way more competition than there...
In the midst of celebrating its fifth anniversary, the Nightlight Cinema, an independent theater in Akron, has set a fundraising goal of $15,000 this...
Next Saturday, June 29, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque will screen the 1958 Akira Kurosawa classic The Hidden Fortress, one of the major...
The golden pipes and rotund frame of Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007) are on rich and repeated display in the new biographical documentary Pavarotti. It...
Shortly into the second or third scene of the Jim Jarmusch meta zombie comedy The Dead Don't Die, singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson's "The Dead Don't Die,"...
Late Night, written by The Office and The Mindy Project writer-star Mindy Kaling and starring Kaling alongside Her Majesty Emma Thompson, is a buttery, oven-ready...
There's some fantastic dialogue in The Souvenir, a talk-heavy new drama from British writer-director Joanna Hogg. While the film features solid acting performances and a great...
A young girl in Ghana must plumb her considerable magical-spiritual resources to track down her missing father in The Burial of Kojo, a vibrant debut...
Throughout a career that stretches back decades, flamboyant singer-songwriter Elton John has sold millions of records and played to stadiums full of fans. A...
