At 94, June Squibb became an unlikely box office champ last month. She had roles in two of the country’s Top 10 movies: “Thelma,” the charming action comedy in which she plays...
Read moreEvery month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks for some of July’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving...
Read moreGimel Hooper, 49, who is Black, didn’t want to show “Frozen” to his daughter for similar reasons. But after she received an Elsa doll for her 4th birthday from a friend’s mother,...
Read moreIn the new movie “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” Taylour Paige plays Jane Foley, Eddie Murphy’s daughter. But the 33-year-old actress grew up idolizing a different Murphy-helmed film franchise.“‘The Nutty Professor’ —...
Read moreWhen the French director Catherine Breillat was 40, her then-husband and the father of her first child ended their relationship to be with a much younger woman. Soon after, Breillat started dating...
Read more‘If From Every Tongue It Drips’Stream it on the Criterion Channel.Part of the Criterion Channel’s ongoing Queersighted series, this debut feature by the Pakistani Canadian artist Sharlene Bamboat deploys cinema as a...
Read moreWhat does artificial intelligence sound like? Hollywood has been imagining it for decades. Now A.I. developers are cribbing from the movies, crafting voices for real machines based on dated cinematic fantasies of...
Read moreThe Wild (and wildly uneven) West.‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1’The first film in Kevin Costner’s projected four-film cycle collects various depictions of the Old West starting in the Civil War.From...
Read moreJeremy O. Harris’s new documentary — titled “Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.” — is ostensibly focused on acting students rehearsing scenes from his provocative “Slave Play,” which was nominated in...
Read moreGiven the hagiographic bias of most celebrity documentaries, “How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer” (in theaters) sails into choppy waters. The director Jeff Zimbalist had to figure out a way to...
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