Category: Movies

Here’s a Hollywood Twist: Streaming Success Runs Through Theaters

Just a few years ago, media executives thought theatrical releases didn’t benefit their streaming services. Now, many of them think the opposite.
Holiday Movies Quiz

Find out if you deserve the expert’s Santa hat or a big old lump of coal.
Chappell Roan, Kai Cenat, Shannon Sharpe Are Among Our Breakout Stars of 2024

Across the arts world, these 10 performers broke away from the pack this year by channeling guts and grit into their work.
Hollywood Embraces the Noodle Boys, Ditching the Muscly Look

As an era of macho politics sets in, sinewy stars like Timothée Chalamet, Dominic Sessa and Mark Eydelshteyn embody a slinky alternative image of white masculinity in American pop culture.
‘Home Alone’ Star Macaulay Culkin Delights Fans With Nostalgic Screening and Q&A

In Chicago, where the suburbs served as locations, a showing of the film featured an appearance by the star. Delighted fans made their devotion known.
Richard Gere Calls ‘Blonde on Blonde’ His All-Time Favorite

“He’s our Picasso,” the actor said of Bob Dylan.
Timotheé Chalamet and the Stars of ‘A Complete Unknown’ Pack NYC Premiere: Photos

Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning and Edward Norton, stars of a new film tracing Bob Dylan’s ascent, packed a theater in Manhattan.
Maura Delpero’s Family Story Became Her Latest Movie

Maura Delpero’s film “Vermiglio,” which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, is inspired by her own family in Italy during World War II.
European Directors Sometimes Get Lost in Translation When Going Hollywood

The history of European directors “going Hollywood” and making the leap to English-language filmmaking is long and uneven.
Five International Movies to Stream Now

This month’s picks include an Irish drama about a pirate-queen, a found-footage movie made from lost Palestinian films, a coming-of-age thriller from Mexico and more.
Timothée Chalamet Sings Live for the Bob Dylan Biopic, ‘A Complete Unknown’

The actor’s vocals so impressed the film’s director that he used the live recordings, instead of those prerecorded in a studio. Here’s a look at other actors who have hit their own high notes in musical biopics.
What ‘Wicked’ Has to Say About Our Current Political Moment

By breaking the story into two movies, the emphasis in “Part One” shifts to a nation’s potential decline into authoritarianism. Sound familiar?