Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...

In an overlooked corner of Reykjavik, behind a tourist shop and between a couple adorable mansions, is a tiny street called Fischersund. It's named for American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer, who ...

The ’70s were probably not best-known for Bobby Fischer's Reykjavik chess tournament, which is the subject of the new biopic Pawn Sacrifice. No, they're probably better known as the backwash of mod ...

Since his earliest victories as a teenager in the 1950s, Bobby Fischer's name has been instantly recognizable not just within the world of chess playing but across popular culture. Oddly enough, the ...

“Pawn Sacrifice,” director Edward Zwick’s biopic of chess prodigy Bobby Fischer, tells us that after only four moves, a chess game offers more than 300,000 billion options to consider. However, ...

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Is anybody better at playing a dotty, preoccupied genius than Tobey Maguire? His brow’s worried furrows and unsettlingly inward-gazing eyes made him convincingly uncanny as the natural born writer in ...

A smart, intelligent and fascinating movie in every way, director Ed Zwick’s Pawn Sacrifice makes all the right moves in this intensely watchable, sort-of biopic of the great chess grand master Bobby ...

Pretend a movie features a basketball game played in the dark, and you only can tell what’s happening from the intensity of the music and the reaction of the people watching, who have night-vision ...

At one point in Pawn Sacrifice, the audience is told that there are an incredible number of possible ways a game of chess can play out. At another moment, the audience is told that there is in fact ...