Film critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks of Movies for Maniacs breaks down his favorite films of last year, in his preferred ...

The Best Picture award went to “One Battle After Another.” With its tally of six Oscars, Paul Thomas Anderson’s opus was the big winner of the night. The show ended with a parody of the big winner. I ...

These Pulitzer-winners are absolute must-read material.

Directed by Ryan Coogler, this film produced enormous buzz at the time of its release. The story of two twin brothers who return home to the Jim Crow South, and fight off singing vampires in their ...

Prognosticators and experts often accurately predict Oscar winners before they're announced, but sometimes they're wrong, ...

SXSW: John Goodman, Sean Astin, and Bryan Cranston also star in this sporadically entertaining (though ultimately derivative) riff on crime, chili, and severed fingers.

* lights cigarette, tosses match, walks away from explosion * ...