It’s here! Jubilant, unapologetically massive, and bursting with a cozy, melancholic sense of communal belonging, “In The Heights” is the biggest-screen-you-can-find Hollywood event that we the movie lovers have been craving since the early days of the pandemic, when the health crisis cut off one of our most cherished public lifelines. A dazzling New York…

Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, widow of legendary filmmaker George A. Romero, is making it her mission to ensure her husband is remembered for more than just his groundbreaking zombie films. Recently, she unearthed a lost movie of his, a PSA commissioned by the Lutheran Society for Senior Life about the plight of the elderly, titled “The Amusement…

Film fans may vaguely remember the 2016 adaptation of the Sony franchise “Ratchet & Clank,” which was met with a critical and commercial shrug. It’s a shame because this is series is rich with interesting characters, settings, and stories, one that has unfolded over a remarkable 16 games since the 2002 PS2 original. Since then,…

After a year of delays due to the pandemic, Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” is finally opening in theaters this Friday and premiering on HBO Max the same day. It’s no exaggeration to say this is going to be an event. A musical about community, the film has been hyped…

Rare is the movie that can effectively retcon its history into a successful TV show, and rarer still is the TV show that can take that new backstory and run with it into not just one successful season, but two. Crystal Moselle, who adapted her 2018 film “Skate Kitchen” for HBO’s “Betty,” delivered six episodes…