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Category: Movies
‘Presence’ review: In a tense ghost story with Lucy Liu, a house is haunted through an unseen spirit’s eyes
By confining the camera perspective to the viewpoint of its unseen ghost, director Steven Soderbergh scores with a crafty thriller.
‘Wicked’ star Cynthia Erivo named Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
Cynthia Erivo, who is starring in the hit musical “Wicked,” was named Tuesday as the 2025 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
Keke Palmer comedy ‘One of Them Days’ and ‘Mufasa’ in close race for No. 1
The Keke Palmer buddy comedy “One of Them Days” opened in first place on the North American box office charts on a particularly slow Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.
Appreciation: In David Lynch’s dreams, cinema cracked open a little wider
The filmmaker, a spellbinder with some genuine masterworks to his credit, leaves behind more than mere flourishes. And as he once said about himself, you don’t have to be dark to show darkness.
‘Juuuust a bit outside!’ Bob Uecker’s acting — and broadcasting — ability came together in ‘Major League.’
Two of Bob Uecker’s claims to fame — baseball and acting — came together brilliantly in one famous line: “Juuuust a bit outside!”
Tony Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95
Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.
‘September 5’ review: The 1972 Olympics hostage crisis goes live, again, in a tense docudrama
Well-acted and tight, maybe to a fault, the docudrama “September 5” revisits the 1972 Olympics massacre in Munich in which 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team died, along with five members of the Palestinian terrorist faction known as Black September and a West German policeman. It’s an analog reminder of sadly ever-contemporary Israeli-Palestinian tensions, […]
David Lynch, visionary filmmaker behind ‘Blue Velvet’ and ‘Mulholland Drive,’ dies at 78
David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died just days before his 79th birthday.
The rise and fall and rise again of Richard Pryor — Criterion releases a new edition of ‘Jo Jo Dancer’
His autobiographical 1986 movie reaches back to his days growing up in Peoria. The comedian accomplished so much, and could have accomplished so much more.