Stephen Schaefer
Film critic and entertainment reporter Stephen Schaefer writes regularly for The Boston Herald with interviews, features, reviews and "Hollywood & Mine," a weekly BostonHerald.com/ entertainment/movies column. He frequently speaks with film clubs about upcoming releases and often covers film festivals in Berlin, Venice, New York and Toronto.
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Nick Park brings back villain fave in ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’
“Vengeance” is highlighted by the return of the series penguin villain, Feathers McGraw, currently locked up for a diamond heist, but not for long.
Grandmother inspires Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor’s character in ‘Nickel Boys’
“The Nickel Boys” is a fact-based drama of two incarcerated and abused Black teenage boys in 1960s segregated Florida, based on Colson Whitehead’s 2019 bestselling novel.
Everything clicks for Greta Scacchi in ‘Darby and Joan’
A pair of senior citizens travel Australia’s Outback in a camper, solving crimes while bickering and bantering.
‘The Seed of a Sacred Fig’ a powerful film made in secret
Mohammad Rasoulof creates a fictional family torn apart by the 2022 uprising that saw women in revolt against a government that decrees women must wear the hijab headscarf or be...
Boxing champ Claressa Shields on ‘The Fire Inside’ journey: ‘Everybody doesn’t get a biopic’
“The Fire Inside,” in theaters now, dramatizes her remarkable journey, from poverty in Flint, Michigan, to being a two-time Olympic boxing Gold Medalist known as “T-Rex.”
Nicole Kidman pushes boundaries in ‘Babygirl’
Nicole Kidman stars in the intentionally provocative “Babygirl,” a sexual study with a sense of humor about its delicate subject.
Timothée Chalamet recreates Bob Dylan’s fairy tale rise in ‘A Complete Unknown’
Timothée Chalamet, a likely Oscar nominee, like everyone in the cast plays and sings live.
Lily-Rose Depp goes dark for ‘Nosferatu’
Opening Christmas Day nationwide, “Nosferatu” hardly rates as warm and cozy holiday fare. But that’s the point.
Kerry Washington goes to war in Tyler Perry’s ‘The Six Triple Eight’
Tyler Perry salutes the nation’s first and only WACs (Women’s Army Corps) unit of color to serve overseas with Kerry Washington as Major Charity Adams, commanding officer of the 6888th Central...
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Hollywood bets on familiar faces for 2025 movies
Despite the celebration that occurred years ago with the double blockbuster whammy of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” revealing that audiences were eager for something new, Hollywood remains heavily invested in the...