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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Dakota Fanning takes deep dive into ‘Ripley’
Tom Ripley, everyone’s favorite murderous sociopath, is back in a big way with Netflix’s eight-episode “Ripley.”
‘Wicked Little Letters’ delivers fun role for Olivia Colman
“Wicked Little Letters” finds Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley as enemies in a 1920s poison pen letter scandal that only seems to be a clever screenwriter’s fantasy.
Sonequa Martin-Green back at helm of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’
As “Star Trek: Discovery” begins its 5th and final season with "The Final Adventure," Sonequa Martin-Green knows she leaves having made history.
Otto Farrant buckles up for ‘Alex Rider’ Season 3
For this third season as Alex Rider, the teen whose Freevee adventures spring from his uncommonly early induction into British Intelligence’s MI6, Otto Farrant has a sense of why the...
Rory Kennedy turns lens on ‘The Synanon Fix’
It began in 1958 as a landmark breakthrough in the treatment of heroin addicts, confrontational therapy they called ‘The Synanon Game.’
Tye Sheridan takes on mean streets of ‘Asphalt City’
Intense and rigorously authentic, “Asphalt City” teams Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan as angels in the hell that is New York City’s nightly emergencies.
Giancarlo Esposito under pressure in ‘Parish’
Giancarlo Esposito is putting the pedal to the metal in the high-octane, New Orleans-set gangster thriller “Parish.”
‘Ennio’ doc a tribute to iconic film composer
“Ennio” is a virtual love letter of a documentary from Italy’s Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (“Cinema Paradiso”) to his distinguished, Oscar-winning compatriot, the prolific maestro of film scoring Ennio Morricone.
Liam Neeson takes aim ‘In the Land of Saints and Sinners’
It’s 1974 Ireland, a nation in a guerilla war over continued British rule, with Liam Neeson ideally cast as an assassin who’s developed a conscience in “In the Land of...
‘Madu’ captures dizzying journey of viral dance star
Anthony Madu, born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, has loved dancing, particularly ballet, since he was five. A viral video of Madu dancing in the city’s mean streets led to the...