Entertainment

Two brothers reconnect over a lost love in this drama from the Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu.

“Linoleum,” the enigmatic feature from Colin West, is so determinedly coy in its early scenes that it risks losing the audience before the midway point. It’s well worth sticking around, though, as...

“My Happy Ending,” about an actress starting chemotherapy, is based on a play by the Israeli writer Anat Gov, who died in 2012. The stage version was understood as a reflection of...

Over a 55-year career, David Bowie redefined the essence of cool by embracing an outsider status. Now, Ziggy Stardust and all of the musician’s other personas will have a permanent home.The Victoria...

Consumer tech giant Sony is launching a virtual reality (VR) headset for its PlayStation on Wednesday, six and a half years after its last attempt to crack a market that is still...

Rick Newman, who opened Catch a Rising Star on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 1972 and built it into a trendy club where Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Freddie Prinze, Jay...

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,” William Wordsworth wrote about the early days of the French Revolution. “But to be young was very heaven!” “Dancing the Twist in Bamako,”...

Why are we so fascinated by stories about sentient robots, rapacious A.I. and the rise of thinking machines? Faced with that question, I did what any writer on deadline would do and...

Last year Birch illustrated a book of the singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten’s lyrics; the two met through Holdsworth in 2011, and Van Etten called her “so inspiring” in an email, adding that...

A young white woman revisits Cameroon and remembers an idyllic childhood in a French colonial outpost. Her name is France.Released in 1988, Claire Denis’s quasi-autobiographical “Chocolat” is the brilliant prelude to a...