Kurosawa’s acclaimed “Seven Samurai” recently celebrated its 70th anniversary with a 4K restoration and theatrical re-release ...

As for Victor, Nick Westrate occasionally offers an appealing naturalism, but all too often he is looking hungrily at the ...

Spike Lee has a new film working with Denzel Washington that reimagines the Japanese legend's gritty Tokyo thriller 'High and Low' ...

Forty years ago, a clerical error and bad blood cost Akira Kurosawa an Oscar. The legendary Japanese filmmaker's Ran proved ...

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

"Ran" remains my favorite Kurosawa film, though, even 40 years after its original theatrical release. I first watched it when ...

Denzel Washington plays a music mogul who faces a series of big moral choices in a film whose sensational third act justifies ...

Lee was joined in the Cannes press conference by Wright and Ilfenesh Hadera, who plays King’s poised and skeptical wife Pam. Highest 2 Lowest marks Lee’s first collaboration with one-time muse ...

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