Reporters trying to get interviews with Steven Spielberg would sometimes grouse that his publicist’s job amounted to speaking a single word: “No.”But Marvin Levy, who served as Mr. Spielberg’s publicist for 42...
Read moreNicky Katt, an actor known for playing wild cards and tough guys on TV shows like “Boston Public” and in films like “Boiler Room” and “Dazed and Confused,” has died. He was...
Read moreBrandon Kazen-Maddox has always felt an affinity with mermaids.“We both straddle two worlds,” said Mx. Kazen-Maddox, 36, an American Sign Language dancer, choreographer and filmmaker who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.Mx....
Read moreThe climactic sequence in last year’s “Civil War,” a movie about an imagined military conflict in the United States, was unusual — and not only because it depicted insurgents storming the White...
Read more‘Timestalker’Rent or buy it on most major platforms.In Alice Lowe’s very dry, very funny satire of historical romances, Agnes (Lowe) keeps dying — often brutally — then reincarnating in various historical eras....
Read moreFor about 20 minutes, “The Amateur” is pretty exciting: It’s glossy, it’s beautifully cast, and it boasts an intriguing premise. Charlie Heller (Rami Malek), a C.I.A. cryptographer — the movie informs us...
Read moreThe first time the world got a good look at Rami Malek, computer screens were reflected more often than not in his distinctive peepers. As the star of “Mr. Robot,” Sam Esmail’s...
Read more‘Warfare’Written and directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, this atypical war movie follows a platoon of Navy SEALs during a calamitous mission in Iraq.From our review:The performances in “Warfare” are uniformly...
Read moreMost documentaries are not really aimed at children. The film world seems to think they are only interested in animated movies about, frequently, talking pets. If a documentary is for families, on...
Read morenew video loaded: ‘The Amateur’ | Anatomy of a ScenetranscriptBacktranscript‘The Amateur’ | Anatomy of a SceneThe director James Hawes narrates a sequence from his film, starring Rami Malek.“I’m James Hawes. I’m the...
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