Oscars 2025: Follow live updates on the 97th Academy Awards.Actors may deliver impassioned speeches about achieving their “childhood dreams,” but we don’t often hear about how those sculpting wounds with clay and...
Read moreRoss himself never appears in the film, and we rarely hear him speak, but there’s a notable exception. About midway through “Hale County,” he, or maybe we, are in a car, driving...
Read moreThe Best Picture Race Looks Wide OpenWhen the Ralph Fiennes-led papal thriller “Conclave” secured the highest honor at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards last weekend, it seemed like a strong indicator...
Read moreA wife, wearing a nightgown and her hair uncovered, lies down next to her husband in bed. An older man and woman, drunk on red wine, dance wildly and discuss the complexities...
Read moreWho is nominated?The Spanish-language narco-musical “Emilia Pérez” leads the pack with 13 nominations, followed by Brady Corbet’s epic drama “The Brutalist” and the gravity-defying musical “Wicked” with 10 each.“A Complete Unknown,” the...
Read more“Hello. I’m Denis Villeneuve. I’m the director of ‘Dune, Part Two’.” “So this scene happens exactly after the introduction of Feyd-Rautha, where we saw him as a psychopath. And here, we bring...
Read more2. La Bionda: “I Wanna Be Your Lover”Trust me when I say you need to watch this music video. This playful, deliriously catchy, proto-Daft Punk hit from 1980 is a quintessential specimen...
Read moreJoseph Wambaugh, the master storyteller of police dramas, whose books, films and television tales powerfully caught the hard psychic realities of lonely street cops and flawed detectives trapped in a seedy world...
Read moreIsabelle Huppert stands upstage center, demurely holding her hands in front of her waist, and starts to speak. She is motionless and in silhouette so we don’t see her mouth, creating a...
Read moreShari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of the entertainment giant Paramount, delivered a crucial message to her board a few weeks ago.For months, Paramount’s lawyers had been jousting with representatives for President Trump,...
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