Author: Sean Collier
Collier’s Weekly: It’s Still a Wonderful Life in Indiana, Pennsylvania
The Jimmy Stewart Museum, a treasure in the actor’s hometown, is a model of how a small museum can honor and preserve a person’s memory.
Movie Review: Napoleon
Ridley Scott’s biopic tears down the emperor’s great-man status with a smart script and keen performances.
Movie Review: Wish
Intended as a celebration of Disney on the occasion of the studio’s 100th anniversary, “Wish” is overloaded with references and in-jokes.
Movie Review: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
This prequel works well enough — until it sticks around for far too long.
Movie Review: Next Goal Wins
The soccer comedy isn’t funny enough to separate it from a hundred similar underdog stories.
Collier’s Weekly: After a Season of Failed Political Labels, What’s in a Name?
The two highest-profile races in this year’s elections involved plenty of name-calling — but neither was defined by it.
Movie Review: The Marvels
The latest chapter in the never-ending Marvel Cinematic Universe story succeeds with the help of three immensely talented stars.
Collier’s Weekly: Pittsburgh: Magic Capital of the World?
The show “The Life and Death of Harry Houdini” underlines how vital Pittsburgh has become to the world of magic.
Movie Review: Priscilla
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley biopic is too quiet to hold the audience’s interest and too cautious to truly interrogate its subject.
Movie Review: The Holdovers
The opening-night feature at the Three Rivers Film Festival, Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” is a remarkable drama with great performances — as well as a very unusual sort of Christmas movie.
Movie Review: Rustin
The Pittsburgh-made biopic is the kind of historical lesson that should be taught in schools — and it features an Oscar-caliber performance from Colman Domingo.
Collier’s Weekly: 10 More Prohibited Pittsburgh Halloween Costumes
We can’t tell you what you should wear, but we absolutely can tell you what you shouldn’t.
Movie Review: Pain Hustlers
This Netflix drama, with Emily Blunt and Chris Evans, is entertaining — but entertainment may not be quite appropriate when dealing with tragic subject matter.
Movie Review: Five Nights at Freddy’s
The massively popular video-game series gets a spooky adaptation that will please fans but bore casual audiences.
Collier’s Weekly: Let’s Go on a Squonk Hunt
Pennsylvania’s most curious cryptid is a weeping beast that can never be captured.
Movie Review: When Evil Lurks
This shocking horror film may be too much for many viewers, but genre fans will be morbidly pleased.
Movie Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese’s true-crime epic is rich in craft — and excess.
Collier’s Weekly: Why It’s Worth Braving the Line for Chicken Tenders
At Raising Cane’s, there’s a party atmosphere — and chicken that puts fast food rivals to shame.
After Eight Years, The Circus Is Back in Pittsburgh
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus is back in town — and back from the brink of extinction.
Movie Review: The Burial
Amazon’s courtroom drama is lifted to victory by a game cast.
Where You Can See “The Eras Tour” in Cinemas This Weekend
Taylor Swift’s hotly anticipated concert film is expected to break box-office records.
Pittsburgh Curiosities: Winter Mausoleum
Our look at oddities around the region.
Places We Love: O’Reilly Theater
Downtown’s O’Reilly Theater has grown from the new kid on the block to an inviting and familiar institution.
Tiny Grapplers Are Fighting Out of Polish Hill
The video game “WrestleQuest,” which mashes up retro wrestling games with a “Toy Story” concept, was developed by Pittsburgh-based Mega Cat Studios.
Collier’s Weekly: Don’t Believe the Downtown Doomsayers
The Cultural District is bustling — and people are enjoying the city. Yet we keep hearing that Downtown is nothing but danger and ruin. Why?
What’s Behind The Ongoing Effort to Find Pittsburgh’s Cultural Treasures
As part of a nationwide initiative, the Heinz Endowments has declared several Black-led arts and cultural organizations Cultural Treasures — and given them transformational gifts.
Celebrate Halloween — and Thanksgiving, and Christmas — with Classic Flicks at the Rangos
The city’s largest movie screen will revive a seasonally appropriate favorite each Saturday for nearly three months.
Movie Review: Saw X
The 10th chapter in the ultra-violent franchise changes the formula slightly, with compelling — if grisly — results.
Movie Review: The Creator
A new science-fiction epic from the director of “Rogue One” borrows quite a bit from “Blade Runner” — and that might be its saving grace.
Collier’s Weekly: Visit a Kennywood Icon … in the Dark
At Phantom Fall Fest, one of the park’s landmarks has become a lights-out challenge.
Movie Review: Expend4bles
The fourth installment of the throwback action franchise lacks star power, but delivers enough mindless action to get by.
Places We Love: Castle Blood
Castle Blood doesn't just offer bumps in the night – each stop on your terrifying journey comes with a macabre challenge.
What Renovated Cultural District Space Will Bring New Entertainment to Downtown?
The fully updated Greer Cabaret Theater formally re-opened Friday night with the Pittsburgh CLO’s production of “tick, tick ... BOOM!”
Collier’s Weekly: Pittsburgh Needs a Real Plan for Abandoned Houses
Many city neighborhoods have a surfeit of abandoned homes. It’s long past time that the city develop an actual plan for rehabilitating them — affordably.
Calm Down: How to Beat Stress with Leisurely Pursuits
Row along a lake by moonlight. Curl up with a warm cup in a cozy coffee shop. Unwind with a rejuvenating massage. Sound good? Explore these soothing outings and more as we help you keep calm in the Steel City.
Movie Review: El Conde
In Netflix’s surprisingly layered dark comedy, the dictator Augusto Pinochet is a 250-year-old vampire. PM Film Critic Sean Collier says it’s unusual, but worth a watch.
Movie Review: A Haunting in Venice
The third of Kenneth Branagh's Hercule Poirot mysteries is a pleasant, fast-moving chiller.
Collier’s Weekly: Five Things to Do Now That You’re Not Seeing Springsteen
The Boss will be delayed, so here’s how to have a Springsteen-themed week without a pair of marathon concerts.
Movie Review: The Nun II
The original “Nun” was only marginally successful, and the sequel is little more than a watered-down second serving.
Change in Kenny Pickett May Be Enough to Change Steelers’ Narrative
He’s been developing ever since he was thrown into the fire as a rookie last October. But with that development clearly accelerated this preseason, it’s time to re-think what might be possible.
Collier’s Weekly: Thank God It’s Not Summer
The middle months of the year are too hot, too busy and too laden with have-fun-or-else pressure to actually enjoy. Fall is the peak of the calendar.
Dormont’s Hollywood Theater Joins the Row House Family
The popular Lawrenceville theater will run the historical neighborhood cinema, with plans to renovate — but first, some movies.
Movie Review: Gran Turismo
The true story of gamers turned racecar drivers overcomes a hackneyed script with slick direction and sports-movie appeal.
Collier’s Weekly: A Dump Truck, a Windshield and a Traffic Cop
On the occasion of a Route 28 mishap, I’m wondering why we’re wasting time and resources on face-to-face citations for routine traffic violations.
Collier’s Weekly: What It’s Like to Take a Small Dog Out to the Ball Game
A visit to Pup Night at PNC Park, where dogs howl along with the organ (but are wary of home-run fireworks).
Movie Review: The Last Voyage of the Demeter
A monstrous Dracula preys on a doomed ship in “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” an adventurous take on the classic novel.
Movie Review: Heart of Stone
Netflix's big-budget romp is packed with action but devoid of thought.
Pittsburgh Curiosities: Fountain of Youth in North Park
Our monthly look at oddities around the region.
