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Long before streaming and iPhones, VHS tapes were the medium of choice when it came to watching movies, recording television shows and capturing special moments with a camcorder. Read more

There are 9 million people living in Mexico City and only 45 emergency ambulances operated by the government. The densely populated capital city has been overrun by private ambulances competing for business, just like the one run by the Ochoa family in “Midnight Family” from director Luke Lo… Read more

Sam Mendes, the director behind the James Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre,” took home an Oscar for his 1999 directorial debut “American Beauty.” 20 years later he’s poised to do it again with a film inspired by the World War I stories told by his grandfather. “1917” is an immersive experie… Read more

Anyone who’s ever read Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” should appreciate the latest spin on racial injustice in the South from writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton (“Short Term 12”). Cretton adapts lawyer-turned-author Bryan Stevenson’s memoir “Just Mercy” with a talented cast deliveri… Read more

In a prison film the warden is usually portrayed as the villain. Who could forget Strother Martin in “Cool Hand Luke,” Eddie Albert in “The Longest Yard,” or Barbara Steele in the Roger Corman-produced “Caged Heat?” In Chinonye Chukwu’s realistic “Clemency” the focus is on empathy as a super… Read more

Writer-director Greta Gerwig gives this generation a new version of Louisa May Alcott’s timeless novel featuring the close-knit March sisters played by Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson and Eliza Scanlen. Read more

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The dark and humorous tale of a con artist family is filled with plenty of tension, heartache and a blood-soaked finale that’s sure to leave you stunned. South Korean director Bong Joon-ho executes the film’s twists and turns impeccably. A flawless example of filmmaking. Read more

Love destroys and love heals in the third film by Houstonian Trey Edward Shults. The writer-director explores the subject with antithetical narratives as a promising high school athlete (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is overpowered by love which sets his trajectory down a path of self-destruction. Ac… Read more

Eighty-nine-year-old Clint Eastwood continues the “Heroes” phase of his career with his latest release “Richard Jewell.” Read more

Each year the Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS) recognizes another independently financed film shot in Texas with the presentation of the TIFA (Texas Independent Film Award). Last year, “An American in Texas” directed by local filmmaker Anthony Pedone was one of the five distinguished film… Read more

Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic “The Irishman” received the most nominations for the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards which take place on Sunday January 12 at 6:00 pm CST and broadcast live on The CW Television Network. Taye Diggs will once again host this year’s star-studded event from th… Read more

Todd Haynes, the director that brought us “Carol,” “Far from Heaven” and “Velvet Goldmine,” opts for a good old-fashioned corporate thriller with “Dark Waters” based on the 2016 New York Times article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare” by Nathaniel Rich. Read more

There is a scene in “Marriage Story” that is devastating to watch as Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver tear each other down as words, like daggers dipped in venom, pierce the hearts of two people who were once very much in love. The two actors play a couple in the midst of a nasty divorce i… Read more

There’s something special about father-daughter movies. First, there aren’t enough of them, and second, there are some really good ones, from “Paper Moon” and “On Golden Pond” to recent films “Hearts Beat Loud” and “Leave No Trace.” Read more

You’ve got to give it to Mike Flanagan the creator behind the Netflix Original series "The Haunting of Hill House." It takes a lot of audacity to tackle Stephen King’s 2013 sequel to “The Shining” and follow up Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic, which we all know King despised. But the w… Read more

Houston, we have a problem. Natalie Portman goes off the deep end in the feature debut from Noah Hawley creator of the FX shows “Legion” and “Fargo.” Loosely based on real-life NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak who drove 900-miles while wearing a diaper (for less pit stops) to attack her astronaut l… Read more

Shia LaBeouf and Zack Gottsagen are a modern-day Tom and Huck in the Mark Twain inspired “The Peanut Butter Falcon” from writer-directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz. Brimming with adventure and spirit, the film’s renowned cast is overshadowed by newcomer Gottsagen, an actor with Down … Read more

Six diverse fans from around the world come together in the new film directed by Depeche Mode’s longtime collaborator and creative director Anton Corbijn. Concert footage from the band’s Berlin, Germany stop on the 2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour is intermixed with interviews and candid video o… Read more

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The names have been changed but “Honey Boy” is based on Shia LaBeouf’s childhood as a young actor and what we see on screen is far from glamorous. Read more

As a fan of the show, I can attest that “Downton Abbey” the film is a treat for devotees of the British television series. Newbies will still be able to enjoy the lighthearted fare that takes place at the real life Highclere Castle which substitutes for the show’s fictional Yorkshire estate,… Read more

There’s nothing like a good LAPD action-thriller to entertain you for a couple of hours. “Training Day,” “Colors’” “L.A. Confidential,” and “Heat” come to mind, and of course hearing Jack Webb deliver the iconic lines "This is the city--Los Angeles, California." "I carry a badge." "My name's… Read more

“Jojo Rabbit” won’t connect with everyone. But if it does, the film by Taika Waititi (“Thor: Ragnarok”) will take you on a rollercoaster ride filled with emotional ups and downs. Laughter turns into heartbreak in the same spirit as the director’s 2016 film “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” which f… Read more

For moviegoers who shy away from documentaries, filmmaker Dan Krauss remains resolute to get the story out of 21-year-old Adam Winfield, a U.S. soldier who witnessed atrocities committed by his platoon against Afghanistan civilians, that he’s turned his 2014 documentary “The Kill Team” into … Read more

Co-writers David Michôd and Joel Edgerton separate King Henry V from Shakespeare as the two venture into new territory with Timothée Chalamet leading the onslaught as Prince Hal, the boy who would be king. Edgerton pulls double duty by playing Sir John Falstaff as a weary but valiant warrior… Read more

Cynthia Erivo’s spirited performance as the heroic Harriet Tubman who escaped slavery to become a freedom fighter for the Underground Railroad (and who should be on the $20 bill right now) is the highlight of the first biopic about the American abolitionist, suffragist, political activist an… Read more

Robert Eggers returns with his sophomore offering after delivering one of the best horror films of the decade, 2016’s “The Witch.” Set in the 1890s just off the coast of Maine, the black and white film stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as a couple of lightkeepers, one a crusty veteran … Read more

Based on Alvin Schwartz’s series of children’s books frightfully illustrated by Stephen Gammell, “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” comes to life with the help of executive producer Guillermo del Toro under the direction of Norwegian filmmaker André Ovredal who brought us “Trollhunter” and … Read more

Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s 1983 beloved book “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World,” writer-director Robin McKenna slams the brakes on this fast-paced world which revolves around commerce by using the spirit of Hyde’s novel to bring us four character-driven stories centered … Read more

Eddie Murphy is his name and making audiences laugh is his game! He was great in 2006’s “Dreamgirls” and over the years the Oscar-nominated actor-comedian found success with “The Nutty Professor” and in animated form (“Shrek,” “Mulan”) but “Dolemite Is My Name” features the best performance … Read more

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The nominations for the Fourth Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards were unveiled today by The Critics Choice Association (CCA). The awards will be handed out at a gala event, hosted by “Property Brothers’” Jonathan Scott, on Sunday, November 10 at BRIC in Brooklyn, New York. Read more

“Pain and Glory” is the 21st full-length feature by Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar. It is third part of a trilogy that began with 1987’s “Law of Desire” followed by 2004’s “Bad Education.” In each film, the central character is a filmmaker who is toying with the idea of a new project as desi… Read more

Unpredictable and prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike returns with a story of two outlaws on the run from the Yakuza, Chinese gangster, and corrupt police officials in an entertaining amalgamate of violence, comedy and action. Read more

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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month and the perfect time to unveil Bill Haney’s new documentary about Texas immunologist and Nobel laureate James P. Allison, the executive director of Immunotherapy Platform at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Read more

Oscar-winner Renée Zellweger is breathtaking as iconic Hollywood movie star Judy Garland in Rupert Goold’s biopic “Judy,” based on Peter Quilter’s play “End of the Rainbow.” Read more

Beneath a blanket of snow in an isolated section of the Catskill Mountains, secrets refuse to remain buried in the supernatural horror thriller “The Deeper You Dig” from filmmaking family Toby Poser, John Adams and Zelda Adams. Read more