Kelly Reichardt is one of the few special filmmakers who can really express the wonder of our physical world. She’s become a sort of poet of the Pacific…

When you watch a lot of movies, you really start to value genuine surprise. I’m not talking about crazy twist endings, although those can be fun. I mean…

You may or may not realize this, but up the road just a couple of hours is an Oscar-winner: KU film professor Kevin Willmott. He won the award for…

I don’t know if it’s been this way for any of you, but sometimes it feels like I’m living the same day over and over right now. I’M JUST KIDDING, I know…

Last Friday, Netflix debuted a superhero movie called The Old Guard, and I was listening to an interview with the director, Gina Prince-Bythewood, that…

Right now, HBO is in the middle of a six-part series from documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus called "I’ll Be Gone In The Dark," based on the late Michelle…

There are a number of different ways to do a biopic. You’ll often see the one where the filmmakers try to encompass most of a life or career, which…

I’m the sort of person who’ll just throw something onto my streaming queue when I hear about it, assuming I’ll get to it, which means by this point there…

As Roger Ebert liked to say, and as I love to repeat: It’s not what a movie is about, it’s how it is about it. Babyteeth, the debut feature from…

The Oscars may be tying themselves in all sorts of knots yet again, but at least one thing everyone seems to agree on at this point is that Spike Lee’s…