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Angel of Vengeance: Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron unite to bring 'Alita' manga to the big screen

Angel of Vengeance: Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron unite to bring 'Alita' manga to the big screen

Strong female protagonists have always been featured in the movies of James Cameron, and not surprisingly, the Canadian filmmaker planned to adapt the cyberpunk manga series Battle Angel: Alita, published by Yukito Kishiro in 1990 about a discarded cyborg suffering from amnesia in a post...
Star-Crossed: Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘Cold War' is a turbulent, decade-spanning love story

Star-Crossed: Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘Cold War' is a turbulent, decade-spanning love story

The Oscar-winning Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski delivers one of the most romantic films of the decade with 'Cold War' (from Amazon Studios).
A More Diverse Spider-Verse: Sony's animated adventure features multiple superheroes

A More Diverse Spider-Verse: Sony's animated adventure features multiple superheroes

This is not your father's Spider-Man. Literally: Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse stars not the familiar Peter Parker but rather Miles Morales, a black and Latino high-schooler introduced in one of Marvel Comics' alternate-universe imprints. Peter Parker does co-star in this new 3D...
From the Archives: Bernardo Bertolucci returns to Paris and the 1960s

From the Archives: Bernardo Bertolucci returns to Paris and the 1960s

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Oscar-winning director of 'The Last Emperor,' 'Last Tango in Paris' and 'The Conformist,' died in Rome on Monday at the age of 77. 'FJI' looks back on our 2004 interview with the Italian master for his film 'The Dreamers.'
Harlem Serenade: Barry Jenkins brings 'Moonlight' magic to James Baldwin's 'If Beale Street Could Talk'

Harlem Serenade: Barry Jenkins brings 'Moonlight' magic to James Baldwin's 'If Beale Street Could Talk'

If John Ford’s westerns recount the white, European narrative of settlement in America, they are also archetypal stories of ordinary men and women who are called to extraordinary acts of heroism.
Sundance at Sunset: Iconic actor-director Robert Redford looks back on a six-decade career

Sundance at Sunset: Iconic actor-director Robert Redford looks back on a six-decade career

So this is it? The Sundance Kid is riding into the sunset?...
A Haunting Crime: Piazza and Grassadonia's 'Sicilian Ghost Story' recalls a notorious kidnapping

A Haunting Crime: Piazza and Grassadonia's 'Sicilian Ghost Story' recalls a notorious kidnapping

Antonio Piazza was a Palermo-based journalist and Fabio Grassadonia an author and college professor when the two men met at a screenwriting workshop in Turin, Italy.
All About Abigail: An ingénue servant challenges Queen Anne's confidante in Yorgos Lanthimos' 'The Favourite'

All About Abigail: An ingénue servant challenges Queen Anne's confidante in Yorgos Lanthimos' 'The Favourite'

The Film Society of Lincoln Center jump-started the 56th annual New York Film Festival this fall by playing 'The Favourite' for its Opening Night Attraction—playing it twice, in fact, as that picture’s director, Yorgos Lanthimos, pointed out with pride and delight.
Two for the Road: Peter Farrelly travels to the Jim Crow South with award contender 'Green Book'

Two for the Road: Peter Farrelly travels to the Jim Crow South with award contender 'Green Book'

Seriously, folks, a Farrelly brother has finally made a drama—one of substantial social import, too. Three years shy of Social Security—after a successful quarter-century of top-grossing gross-out comedies conceived and executed with his chief conspirator from childhood, brother Bobby—maturity at...
Beyond the Arcade: 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' in new Disney animated comedy-adventure

Beyond the Arcade: 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' in new Disney animated comedy-adventure

Opening Nov. 21, the Disney Animation release 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' continues the stories of the characters in 'Wreck-It Ralph.'