MovieBloc and the Strange New World of Crypto-Films
Will Blockchain bring a new audience to global short films, or is it just a trend?
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Author: William Schwartz
‘Maria Chapdelaine’, Post-Racial French-Canadian Heroine?
Films at this year’s TIFF broaden the discourse
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Cinderella, Inc.
Amazon’s patchy new ‘Cinderella’ musical is a weird paean to woke capitalism
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‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ is your ‘White Lotus’ Antidote
Not every show has to be explicitly political
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Why Are Live-Action Sitcoms Making Animated Specials?
PEN15 joins a growing list
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Gets Away With it Again with ‘Vivo’
A grab-bag of Cuban stereotypes from the woke era’s favorite entertainer
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The Vivian Awards, Rebranded, Step in it Anyway
An romance-award-winning book blames the Sioux for the Massacre at Wounded Knee
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Is Netflix in Decline?
The original streaming service is drafting on its reputation
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‘Stop in the Name of the Vimeo Law’
Vimeo tries to shut down crowdsourced Fatal Farm Robocop project
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Why Did Stacey Abrams Get an Emmy Nomination?
A multi-media push to the top of the political pile
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Why are American Movies Underperforming at the Chinese Box Office?
Post-COVID shutdowns, Hollywood has lost its luster in Asia
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‘Scenes From An Empty Church’ Captures COVID Moments
Onur Tukel’s pandemic-set film reveals human truths
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Lucy’s Baby
‘False Positive,’ a new pregnancy thriller, asks: should we trust the science?
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Kim’s Convenience Steps in a Pile of Horse Poop
Plagued by accusations of racism, the popular CBC show about Korean immigrants gets an early hook
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The Clueless Teenage Panic of ‘Plan B’
A hilarious morning-after-pill sex comedy on Hulu
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