The Italian nights are getting cooler as fall approaches, and there's something autumnal about many of the movies at the Venice Film Festival this year. The passage of time and the approach of...

The last time Israeli director Samuel Maoz came to the Venice Film Festival, he won the top prize with his first feature film. Then, his main feeling was shock. Eight years later he's back with...

On their face, the numbers are grim. Movie ticket sales in North America are running roughly half a billion dollars behind last summer's box office, making this one of lowest-grossing summers in...

Things may look bleak for Democrats these days, but Michael Moore thinks he knows how they can get back on top. "Humor is the non-violent weapon by which we're going to help turn this around,"...

In 2016 "Moonlight" won best picture and "Hidden Figures" was the 14th highest grossing film of the year, but popular Hollywood films remained as white and male-dominated as ever. A new report...

It was a day of queens at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday - a real British monarch on the screen and two queens of acting, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren, on the red carpet. Dench plays...

FBI battles with the White House. Revelatory government leaks on the front page. Soldiers haunted by unwinnable wars. Courtroom clashes over civil rights. Movies take years to make, but many of...

An Emirati filmmaker is pushing boundaries and bypassing state censors by delicately unraveling a story about a traditional Arab family grappling with issues of homosexual love, gender identity,...

Frankie has a big one - he's attracted to men - and he can't seem to reconcile it with his own life. Writer and director Eliza Hittman's "Beach Rats " follows this conflicted Coney Island teenager...

When Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon clasped hands, stepped on the gas and flew over the canyon ridge in that memorable ending to "Thelma & Louise," many in Hollywood believed they were launching...