Whatever Tony Gilroy did next was going to be hotly-anticipated. After all, the acclaimed writer/director/creative was the driving force behind Andor, the astonishingly good Star Wars series – and in ...

Ross McElwee made his name as a creator of personal documentaries with “Sherman’s March,” from 1986, in which two strands of narrative are intertwined: McElwee’s efforts to make a film about the ...

The World Cup is showing visiting soccer fans that America has more to offer than they could have ever anticipated, like air conditioning and IHOP. Seventy-eight of the 104 total matches during this ...

In a new X post building on an earlier Hollywood action-clip montage, the White House tries to render the horrors of war as a Wii game. An Iranian bomb site rendered as a Wii target by the Trump White ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

We invited the filmmakers behind each of this year’s 15 Oscar-shortlisted animated shorts to share their favorite shot from their film and explain why it’s special to them. Nomination voting starts on ...

Michael Block is a 14 time GLAM Award nominated writer, producer, and host of the podcast Block Talk. Throughout his time in the entertainment industry, he has worked on and off Broadway as a stage ...

It’s love at first sight for Oliver and Ciara. But less than two months later, the cops are knocking on Oliver’s door. Based on the bestseller by Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days (née Obsession) is an ...

It’s always a question of whether you want to read a book first before you see a movie adaptation, but the flavor of the question facing “Hamnet” is a little bit different. It certainly isn’t one of ...

Roland Sejko’s doc “A State Film,” culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman Enver Hoxha, is a fascinating study in the power of image and myth.