Apart from entertainment, films act like a mirror, reporting the cultural and socioeconomic climate of society and throwing ...

It’s well into the second act of “Urchin,” writer/director Harris Dickinson’s searing portrait of addiction and homelessness ...

Content Warning: The following article contains discussions of drug, alcohol, and gambling addiction. Addiction has long been a distinctly devastating subject to capture in film. Some of the best ...

Justine Kraemer is a Senior List Writer at Collider and a freelance writer based in Ontario, Canada. She is passionate about finding new angles on the latest movies and TV shows. With over five years ...

Justine Kraemer is a Senior List Writer at Collider and a freelance writer based in Ontario, Canada. She is passionate about finding new angles on the latest movies and TV shows. With over five years ...

Nora Fingscheidt’s contemplative and cluttered biographical drama “The Outrun” adds a little bit of individuality to the cinematic canon of struggling substance abusers bottoming out over and over ...

Charlie Sheen stuck an ice cube up his butt at the peak of his drug addiction. The actor was filming “Free Money” at the time and found himself falling asleep during a scene at a bar — so he asked for ...

Why are movies so compelling? Why did I spend the weekend binge watching an entire season of a TV drama? Fortunately for me, I can prevent myself from getting hooked on many such programs. Yet our ...