Spring is on the horizon (yay!) but we’re still deep into winter (grr). And that means time for reading. Our latest roundup of noteworthy new books connected t...
Little Richard: I Am Everything is positively bursting with unforgettable anecdotes, so much so that choosing one standout is virtually impossible. So perhaps ...
It feels serendipitous that Scrapper, a somber slice-of-life British melodrama, screened at the Sundance Film Festival just days after hysterical reporting on ...
Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2022, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
It o...
We have a lot to cover in this, our last roundup of new and recent books on film and pop culture before year’s end—high-profile memoirs, the coolest collection...
North of Normal is an affecting drama about the life-altering impact of a youth in the wild. Happily, it embraces subtlety rather than over-the-top histrionics...
Judging from the pre-release information surrounding Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, it was clear the endeavor could attain the label of the master director’...
There was really only one way for Rian Johnson to proceed with Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. The sequel to his 2019 whodunnit smash that introduced the es...
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story gets its subject in a way very few biopics ever have—by not really being a biopic at all. Rather, Weird approaches the life of son...
Emily, the directorial debut for Mansfield Park and A.I.: Artificial Intelligence star Frances O’Connor, is one of the more remarkably assured first efforts in...
Christopher Schobert is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic who has written for numerous outlets worldwide and covered film festivals in Toronto, New York, and London. Currently, he writes reviews and features for The Film Stage, writes a monthly cinema column for Buffalo Spree magazine, and discusses film as a regular guest on the Shredd and Ragan radio show on Buffalo’s 97 Rock.
