Denis Villeneuve is best known for his sci-fi epics, and he praises this samurai classic as one of his favorite films.

Hit Westerns were guaranteed a forgettable sequel and The Magnificent Seven managed to get three (plus a despised TV version, ...

Julia Izumi’s self-absorbed solo show offers weak humor, clunky staging, and little emotional payoff beneath its quirky ...

Ishikawa's subtle adaptation of the Nobel Prize winner's first novel finds resonance and haunting ambiguity in Japan's fading ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

Akira Kurosawa's classic, Ran, overtook Thunderbolts* at the box office with an impressive per theater average.

As one waits, seated, for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s world-premiere production of “Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies ...

Ghost of Tsushima paid homage to classic samurai movies (with its black-and-white “Kurosawa mode” named after legendary Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa), so it will be interesting to see ...

As we move forward with one of the most prestigious film festivals of all time, Cannes 2025 has been serving looks and statement styles and we are all in for it. Day 7 of the festival witnessed some ...

Spike Lee’s deliriously entertaining — if jarringly upbeat — “Highest 2 Lowest” modernizes the post-war anxieties of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low” for the age of parasocial ...