Rosine Mbakam was headed from Belgium to Cameroon, her homeland, to make a documentary. Then lockdown struck. So did inspiration for a new topic: How coronavirus is linked to the "virus" of racism.
The new French film, Cuties, is about an 11-year old Senegalese Muslim girl growing up in Paris and struggling with the contradictions between her strict upbringing and the demands of social media.
Like many of us, Marc Rivers has watched a lot of movies during self-isolation. But it was a 25-year old crime drama about emotional isolation that offered him the greatest comfort.
Pepe the Frog is one of the most prolific images on the Internet. A new documentary follows the frog's creator, cartoonist Matt Furie, as he fights to regain control over his character.
In writer/director Charlie Kaufman's latest, a couple spouts pat, pseudo-intellectual bromides. But stay with it — because that's a clue to what's really going on in this tense, surprising film.
Spinning a Chinese legend into family-friendly entertainment with worldwide appeal is a tricky business. The new version of Mulan feels like a watered-down version of a potentially captivating story.
Actor Chadwick Boseman died after battling colon cancer at the age of 43. Film-goers comment on his pivotal role as a Black actor in films that depicted Black heroes and superheroes.
Actor Chadwick Boseman has died of cancer. He played James Brown, Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall, but may have been best known for starring in Marvel's Black Panther.
The sci-fi thriller Tenet was originally slated to open in July, but the studio repeatedly rescheduled the film's release while the coronavirus pandemic shuttered cinemas around the globe.
Thirty years after they befriended Napoleon and beat the Grim Reaper in a game of Battleship, Bill S. Preston (Esq.) and Ted "Theodore" Logan are back — older, but not necessarily any wiser.
Following the indictment of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Alison Klayman, director of a documentary that follows Bannon's exploits in far-right fundraising.
The new Russell Crowe film is out and a theater owners' group launches a public awareness campaign dubbed "CinemaSafe," meant to ease moviegoer's coronavirus fears.