Lin-Manual Miranda re-teams with his “In the Heights” writer Quiara Alegría Hudes and his “Hamilton” music director Alex Lacamoire for “Vivo,” a lively animated musical about a Cuban kinkajou who wants to deliver a message of love and music to Marta, an acclaimed singer (Gloria Estafan), before her final performance in Miami. This involves a journey with…

Since 2012, I’ve been heading down to San Diego every July to meet with friends and family and wait in endless lines in hopes of getting something in limited supply or squeeze into a packed panel. I’d pack for every potential misfortune, with comfort food, comfortable shoes and the comfort of knowing that I’d meet…

Albert Lewin is a name I wish more people knew. He was a genius, good at everything, smart as can be, and so talented it makes your head spin. A lot of people wanted to make literary or painterly cinema, he was the man who actually seemed to make movies out of oil paint and…

Across six episodes, “Small Town News: KPVM Pahrump” documents the inner-workings of a privately owned news station in Nevada. It’s a curious oddity, and unfortunately for all of the potential in its concept, it stays that way.  By the end of episode one, KPVM has started its plan to expand its outreach to the entertainment capital of…

The following annotated table of contents features all of RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert’s video dispatches from the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, directed and edited by Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works.—The Editors 1. Cannes 2021 Video #1: Returning to the Riviera Just before she left to the South of France for the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, which ran…