“Conclave,” Edward Berger’s thriller about the selection of a new pope, received the most nominations on Wednesday for this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards, known as the BAFTAs.The movie secured 12...
Read moreYeah. It’s a commitment before you even start.I wonder if people realize that may be part of why they hesitate, because it’s almost like breaking an addiction for them.And the funny thing...
Read moreBy bending time and leaning on nonlinear storytelling, “Nickel Boys” joins a recent trend of contemporary Black filmmakers relinquishing the impulse to frame Black stories chronologically.Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...
Read moreRick Kuhn, a Boston College basketball player who was convicted for taking part in a headline-making point-shaving scandal that was largely organized by Henry Hill, the mobster played by Ray Liotta in...
Read moreFilmed from 2018 to 2022, the sobering documentary “In the Shadow of Beirut” tracks four families living in poverty in the capital of Lebanon. The directors, Stephen Gerard Kelly and Garry Keane,...
Read moreThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has again postponed its nomination announcement in response to the fires that are still raging throughout Los Angeles. It also canceled its annual luncheon,...
Read moreElphaba might have been reluctant to go to Shiv University, but Cynthia Erivo still wants to get a Ph.D.Specifically, the star who plays Elphaba in “Wicked” onscreen is interested in how everyday...
Read more‘Pepe’Stream it on Mubi.Call it “Cocaine Hippo”: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias’s gloriously weird new film takes on an utterly strange bit of modern South American history and gives it a...
Read more“Stars” developed something of an underground reputation in Syria, the filmmaker said, and could be found in pirated copies. A friend sent him an image of a poster for the movie hanging...
Read more‘The Last Showgirl’Pamela Anderson stars as Shelly, a Vegas showgirl facing her final curtain call.From our review:Directed by Gia Coppola (“Palo Alto”) from a script by Kate Gersten, “The Last Showgirl” tells...
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