“Against the Grain” (1993), featuring John Terry as high school coach Ed Clemons, and Affleck as his son, the hunky young football player Joe Willie Clemons, was loosely based on Friday Night Lights.

In the original, he has an ability to imbue seemingly ordinary footage of people setting up a haunted house with mounting ...

Lasse Hallström ‘s latest film, “The Map That Leads to You,” has the makings of a Gen Z “Before Sunset” meets “Eat Pray Love, ...

Love, obsession, power, and attention collide to thrilling and frightening effect in Alex Russell’s feature-length ...

The Twisted tale of Amanda Knox” just doesn’t add enough new to the conversation for anyone who knows this story.

Locarno Film Festival’s yearly, rotating retrospective is almost always the best and surest ticket in town. Take last year’s ...

On three expressive films from Locarno, including the year’s winner of the Golden Leopard.

More than three years after the titular character appeared on our television screens, Season 2 of “Peacemaker” is finally here. Coming off his appearance in “The Suicide Squad,” the first season ended ...

The lean nature of the storytelling here is refreshing in a time when most games are undeniably flabby.

We soon learn that Jimmy’s substance abuse problems are the source of tension between him and his old buddy Stiggs Randolph ...