When he died on Tuesday at age 65 of pneumonia, everyone had their image of Val Kilmer at hand to personally mourn. There was the wonderfully showy Juilliard valedictorian, youngest actor ever accepted into the prestigious school, the young Brando who made his method bonafides known with theatrical, physical turns in “Tombstone,” “The Doors,” and […]

Medical dramas were a TV staple in previous decades, but it feels like they’ve taken a backseat in a procedural world overrun with firefighters and police officers. However, in the last year, the tables have turned, with NBC’s “St. Denis Medical” and HBO’s “The Pitt” becoming more popular each week they air. Hospital-set dramas can […]

Adi Shankar is the person that video game publishers call when they are interested in adapting their beloved franchises to animated television. After revitalizing “Castlevania” for Konami and blending all the Ubisoft franchises into the neon-drenched retro remix “Captain Laserhawk,” Shankar and company have hit the jackpot with Capcom’s “Devil May Cry,” now on Netflix. […]

Apple TV+’s new series “Your Friends and Neighbors” opens with the image of its protagonist, Andrew Cooper (Jon Hamm), laid out in a pool of blood. It’s not his own, though: it belongs to the body of an unknown man, whose corpse Cooper walked in on when he was attempting to steal from his house. […]

There is nothing quite like the films of trailblazing filmmaker Euzhan Palcy, whose commitment to cinema as a tool for empathy, understanding, and social change is unparalleled. Her films explore themes of race, gender, economics, and the continual, and damaging, effects of colonialism with an incisive gaze and tender grace. Upon receiving her Honorary Academy […]

CHAMPAIGN, IL (April 1, 2025) — Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, also known as Ebertfest, announced today the final three films screening at this year’s festival, to be held April 23-26 at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign: Francis Ford Coppola’s MEGALOPOLIS Walter Salles’ Academy Award®-winning I’M STILL HERE Lotte Reiniger’s THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED  Coppola will participate […]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Someone either dies, or goes to Hell, or is otherwise handpicked to become a bounty hunter for—get this—escaped souls from the underworld. And he’s got to spend his days tracking down these demons at, on average, the pace of a monster per week, all while juggling his […]