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IDFA's Orwa Nyrabia is blasting documentary distributors for playing it safe, choosing celebrity and true crime fare over more challenging work.

'Merchant Ivory' pays warm tribute to the long-running independent film partnership behind such hits as 'A Room with a View' and 'Howards End.

As Whoopi Goldberg celebrates her birthday, VIBE reflects on six of her most slept-on film roles.

One of Roger Ebert’s last film reviews was of Barney’s Version, and I remember how the he described Paul Giamatti’s character in the 2011 comedy: “Barney is not especially smart or talented or good-looking, but he is especially there.” One could fairly say that about everybody Giamatti plays, a gallery of defiantly

A cultural product cannot be controlled once it is out there, says director David Fincher, who is now releasing ‘The Killer’ on Netflix. This is the case of his most famous work, a film that has been claimed by the extreme right

It’s as true of movies as it is of air travel: if you mess up the landing, people aren’t going to care about how smooth the journey was.

As war at its most brutal rears its head, veteran film critic David Thomson's latest book, 'The Fatal Alliance,' wants us to rethink the war-movie genre.

We're giving away 10 official JoBlo Bobbleheads to some of our long-time readers as a thank you for reading over the years.

We examine the career of perhaps the most "money" leading man (and noted giant) of all time, the great Vince Vaughn.

One of Netflix's biggest shows of the year is streaming now - but the critics haven't been kind.