Is there anyone in Hollywood that Ed Begley Jr. doesn’t know?“I think there’s a publicist at Paramount I need to have lunch with soon, and there’s a dolly grip at Fox,” he...
Read moreHorror author Victorius Kingston is has started a new chapter in his career by taking on acting for his newest project. He is not only writing the script but also playing the...
Read moreA probate judge in Memphis ended an unusual legal arrangement on Friday between Michael Oher, a former National Football League player and the subject of the hit movie “The Blind Side,” and...
Read moreIf it’s epic cinema you seek this fall, many marathons await: Martin Scorsese’s sprawling Oklahoma murder ballad “Killers of the Flower Moon” (3 hours 26 minutes); Ridley Scott’s lush and bloody biopic...
Read more‘No One Will Save You’Stream it on Hulu.I watch a lot of films for this column, and it’s the rare one that worms its way into my head the way Brian Duffield’s...
Read moreThe proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Each month, we’ll choose three nonfiction films — classics, overlooked recent docs and more — that will...
Read moreBradley Cooper may still be on strike (solidarity!), but there’s no stopping the New York Film Festival. Over 61 transporting, galvanic and at times weird and fractious years, this institutional stalwart has...
Read moreFor better or worse, I’m fascinated by the “Saw” movies — mesmerized by their inventively staged kills, in which victims are locked into medieval-looking contraptions and given a choice: a) hack off...
Read moreHis television roles varied from Inspector Maigret to Edward VII, Oscar Wilde to Winston Churchill. And in film he played characters as different as Albert Spica, the coarse and violent gangster in...
Read moreEven in silence, he thundered. Make that, especially in silence.The last two times I saw the mighty Michael Gambon onstage, his characters didn’t have much to say, and in one case, nothing...
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