3+ week, 4+ day ago   (850+ words) Gen Z audiences are seeing more movies in theaters, and there's a resurgence in older formats of entertainment like vinyl records and "films on film." Locally, Central Cinema shows about one movie a month on 16mm film. Chroma Knox has experimented…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (279+ words) Matrix director Lilly Wachowski is facing difficulties securing financing for her upcoming film “The Hunted.” The director says potential financiers like the project but have hesitated to back it because of its “wall-to-wall” trans cast. Wachowski, of “Matrix” and “Bound…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (364+ words) The Mandalorian and Grogu did not save Star Wars. However, its failure provides an important lesson for its future. After a nearly seven-year wait, Star Wars finally returned to theaters this past May with The Mandalorian and Grogu. Instead of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (392+ words) Image Credit: Public Domain / Wikipedia A previous piece on movies everyone claims to love but secretly finds tedious brought a wave of pushback. Most of it circled the same two titles. One reader put it bluntly: “Why did Dr. Zhivago…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (653+ words) The city-to-suburbs pipeline may not be new, but it's once again picking up speed. The U.S. Census Bureau recently found that even in metro areas seeing the biggest population booms, most of that growth is happening in the suburbs and exurbs…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (602+ words) Every generation has that one movie that really defines it. With Generation X, whose coming of age coincided with a seismic shift in Hollywood, cinema moved from the 1970s blockbuster era to the gritty independent boom of the 1990s. That shift helped…...