Reviews

Bursting with old-school charm even as its provocations are distinctly modern, director Alicia MacDonald’s “Finding Emily” is a witty and sincere reminder of the enduring appeal of romantic comedies. Unlike recent stabs at the genre that feel like they coast on self-awareness and the ability to wink at their audience,

From “Pluribus” to “Silo,” Apple TV has given life to many of the decade’s best sci-fi series. There have also been some middling ones, which is a category that season one of “Dark Matter” fell into. Based on Blake Crouch’s novel of the same name, the series follows quantum physicist

As a journalist, I only had a few brief interactions with the late Michael Wright, mainly at industry functions and movie premieres. But the one I think about most had nothing to do with his filmography, which included “The Principal,” “The Five Heartbeats,” “Sugar Hill,” and HBO’s long-running prison drama

Over the last few summers, I’ve been taking the kid to various local comic conventions and noticed that anime dominates not merely the cosplay, but the little shops and artists alleys. Why have America’s youth given up on American superheroes like Batman and Captain America for characters drawn in Japan?