The heat of summer bears down on us—and with it comes a crop of new movies that hope to inspire and entertain. From superhero movies to 'Star Wars' to indie foreign gems, the next few months have something for everyone.
'Film Journal International' has written a lot about event cinema: its potential, its challenges, the way it’s grown over the last handful of years from the odd opera screening here and there to an industry that pulls in many millions of dollars per year.
It was a less-than-quiet weekend for horror outing A Quiet Place, which bowed at the number one spot with an impressive $50 million. That’s one of the highest openings ever for a horror film, beating out the debut cumes of—for example—all the Conjuring and Insidious movies....
It was a good year for genre/midnight movies at the Tribeca Film Festival, which boasted a fair set of thrills, chills and weird-ass monsters alongside its typically very reliable documentary slate.
Steven Spielberg has another success under his belt with Ready Player One, which took the weekend's top spot with a $41.2 million debut. That's the highest opening Spielberg has had in ten years (since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’s $100.1 million bow in 2008) and the fifth...
NYFF. NDNF. Tribeca. NYICFF. NYAFF. NewFest. DOC NYC. New York City has no shortage of film festivals. Why, exactly, do we need another? Well, that’s simple: because none of those fests are quite WTF enough.
