Movies
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What to stream: Krasinski and Portman search for ‘Fountain of Youth,’ and Joe Jonas’ album
May 19, 2025 5:30 am - Joe Jonas’ sophomore solo album, “Work It Out,” and John Krasinski and Natalie Portman searching for immortality in Guy Ritchie’s adventure movie “Fountain of Youth” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ tops box office while The Weeknd’s movie falters
May 18, 2025 2:19 pm - Death is not looming for the “Final Destination” franchise at the box office. Its sixth installment, “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” drew big crowds to movie theaters this weekend and easily topped the domestic charts with $51 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Jennifer Lawrence stirs Oscar talk in Cannes for ‘Die, My Love’
May 18, 2025 2:05 pm - Last year, the Cannes Film Festival produced three best actress nominees at the Oscars. This year’s edition may have just supplied another: Jennifer Lawrence in Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love.”
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Cannes promotional stunts, once a feature of the festival, go missing
May 16, 2025 1:25 pm - You can get nostalgic about almost anything at the Cannes Film Festival, even Jerry Seinfeld on a zip line in a bumblebee costume.
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‘Deaf President Now!’ amplifies the birth of a rights movement
May 16, 2025 9:39 am - The events depicted in “Deaf President Now!” — a documentary revisiting the 1988 protest by students at Gallaudet University that led to the selection of the school’s first deaf president in its 124-year history — may seem like an incremental advancement for representation in the deaf community. But it was so much more.
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The Weeknd’s ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ is a surrealist vanity project
May 16, 2025 9:19 am - In “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” the tedium of an incoherent first act paints charismatic performer The Weeknd — one of the last few decades’ most popular — as an unempathetic protagonist in a nonlinear and nonsensical world.
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Bono: ‘The world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime’
May 15, 2025 4:34 pm - Cannes is a short trip from Bono’s seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. But that doesn’t mean the Cannes Film Festival is a particularly familiar experience for the U2 frontman. He’s here to premiere the Apple TV+ documentary “Bono: Stories of Surrender.”
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Alligator that starred in ‘Happy Gilmore’ dies of old age in Colorado
May 15, 2025 6:58 am - An alligator that appeared in numerous TV shows and films over three decades, most notably the 1996 Adam Sandler comedy “Happy Gilmore,” has died at a gator farm in southern Colorado.
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Beware the blender! ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ makes the everyday item terrifying
May 15, 2025 5:30 am - A blender. A lawn mower. A ceiling fan. A garden rake. A vending machine. An MRI scanner. These mundane items are supposed to ease us through life. But in “Final Destination Bloodlines,” ordinary objects become fearsome tools of murderous mayhem.
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Dark bromance ‘Friendship’ hysterically explores modern men’s awkward embrace
May 15, 2025 5:30 am - Uncool suburban dad Craig Waterman’s chance meeting with his cool neighbor sparks an unlikely friendship. So begins Andrew DeYoung’s debut feature “Friendship,” which tackles modern masculinity and male loneliness with biting satire and humor, taking detours into horror and the surreal.