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Ritz Theaters, Like Everything Else, Might Soon Be Owned by Amazon

Citing “people familiar with the situation,” Bloomberg on Thursday reported that Amazon is angling to acquire Landmark Theaters, parent company of Philly’s Ritz theaters, from […]

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Win Tickets to See an Early Screening of The Danish Girl

Looking for a midweek movie/date night? There have been 25 pairs of tickets set aside for Philly Mag readers at an early screening of Tom Hooper‘s much-buzzed-about […]

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Weather Screws Up Chris Rock’s Trip to Tony Luke’s, But He Makes it to Ritz Five

Winter storm/Nor’Easter Damon might not have packed a powerful punch in the Philadelphia area but it’s wreaking havoc along the Coast and New England. Case in […]

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5 Questions With Whiplash Director Damien Chazelle

Twenty-nine-year-old writer/director Damien Chazelle has found himself in career overdrive. He made quite a splash at this year’s Sundance festival with Whiplash, his latest work about a maniacally hard-driving […]

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Ritz Five to Screen New David Lynch’s Duran Duran Film for One Night Only on September 10th

The Ritz Five in Old City is one of 300-some-odd theaters to screen PAFA grad David Lynch’s latest film, Unstaged, for one night only on […]

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Movie-O-Meter: One of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Final Films, the Philly-Set God’s Pocket, Opens at Ritz Five

Capsule reviews of the weekend’s new movies. Should you see it, wait for DVD, or skit it altogether? We lay it out below.  SEE IT […]

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New Movies Opening This Weekend in Philly: “The Past” and “Gimme Shelter”

Our weekly roundup of the new movies opening this weekend in Philadelphia. This week, only two: Ashgar Farhadi’s The Past and Gimme Shelter starring Vanessa Hudgens and […]