Biz Markie’s death in 2021, at the way-too-young age of 57, robbed hip-hop — hell, robbed American music, period — of one of its most idiosyncratic and singular talents.“All Up in the...
Read moreIn “Between Two Worlds,” Juliette Binoche plays Marianne Winckler, a woman struggling to make ends meet in the Normandy region of France. When she arrives at an unemployment center at the start...
Read moreThe word “Alzheimer’s” isn’t spoken until well into “The Eternal Memory.” While that may be because this documentary’s subjects rarely mention it themselves, withholding the diagnosis also seems like a deliberate choice...
Read moreIn this hybrid film by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, the actress Vera Gemma portrays a complex and vulnerable version of herself.
Read moreFive years after Justin H. Min began pursuing acting by Googling “how to pursue acting,” he thought he was getting the hang of it. He had made a viral commercial, and he...
Read moreWhen you’re making an independent film every second counts. Ash Avildsen had six days of filming left on his low-budget biopic “Queen of the Ring” — including a climactic scene involving a...
Read moreA madcap riff on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, “Winter Kills,” adapted by the director William Richert from Richard Condon’s 1974 best seller, is part black comedy, part paranoid thriller...
Read moreMoreno liked the “nuggets” that Gerwig threw in for collectors, like a cameo from the Skipper that grew breasts, and onscreen text noting the actual names of ensembles from Barbie’s closet. “My...
Read moreNarrating the sequence, the director Jeff Rowe said that it is “the first time that we get to see them fight or be crime fighters in the way that the Ninja Turtles...
Read moreThe filmmaker Justin Simien was researching the Haunted Mansion long before he realized it. As a boy, he was a big fan of the Disney attraction. “I literally remember riding this ride...
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