Over the last week, media companies conveyed an air of business as usual. On Thursday, HBO hosted a red carpet premiere for a documentary, while the Fox broadcast network announced a survivalist...
Read more“Sure, she wants to make her bed with a decent chap when the time is right, but the time is never right!” Lane tells Johnson’s assistant, Allicia Mac-Teer, anachronistically (Hanksishly). “Nor is...
Read moreIn “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also...
Read moreFilm directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the camera.Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the...
Read more‘Cette Maison’Stream it on the Criterion Channel.The debut feature by the Haitian Canadian director Miryam Charles opens with a series of flickering tropical images — a bright orange house nestled among verdant...
Read moreDrew Barrymore will no longer host the MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday, announcing that she would step down in support of the writers’ strike in Hollywood that has seen late-night...
Read more‘Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers’Stream it on Disney+.Disney’s TV show “Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers” ran for only three seasons, from 1989 to 1990, but the comedian Andy Samberg and his Lonely...
Read moreThe Encores! production, directed by Lear deBessonet, looks to deepen and darken a musical that resists the change. But it’s still delightful.
Read moreThe wonderfully bizarre Canadian drama “Queens of the Qing Dynasty” understands queerness the way that bell hooks did: as a “self that is at odds with everything around it.” Directed by Ashley...
Read moreA glossy lesson in how to pour nontraditional content into a traditional rom-com mold, Shekhar Kapur’s “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” shapes competing notions of happily-ever-after into comfort food. And...
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