From impossible missions to edge-of-your-seat espionage, Netflix is adding five action-packed Tom Cruise spy films to its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. This article is more than 2 years old. 2023 was a harsh year ...

Morgan Freeman, left, and Tim Robbins in the classic '90s movie "The Shawshank Redemption." The best ‘90s movies evoke nostalgia for a period when the Cold War had recently ended, Gen X slackers made ...

The number of Hollywood films made by women had a stark decline in 2025, and gender-balanced productions also dropped.

As the year draws to a close, the urge to compile “best of the year” lists feels both inevitable and deeply complicated. In a world grappling with profound crises—most notably the genocide in ...

With the summer movie season now quietly winding down, fall is upon us. As we do each year, after highlighting the best films offered thus far, we’ve set out to provide an overview of the titles that ...

For our most comprehensive year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2025. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable ...

Mortal Kombat is no stranger to the big screen, with three live-action films in the books and one more on the way later this ...

Independent filmmaking has been especially prominent in the twenty-first century because it has become the new mainstream. It has largely taken over for Hollywood studios in producing the kinds of ...