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Three’s a crowd in the wistful ‘Ballad of Wallis Island’

Ty Burr
Apr 04, 2025 8:23 am - If you crossed the lovely indie musical “Once” (2007) with the charming Scottish comedy classic “Local Hero” (1983), and subtracted half of the loveliness and charm, you might end up with “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a sweet little British comedy that tickles the senses as you watch it, then immediately evaporates.
Stealing the show: Star of ‘The Friend’ is a very good boy

By JAKE COYLE
Apr 03, 2025 3:56 pm - The star of “The Friend” has the loping stride of Robert Mitchum and the droopy, melancholy eyes of Peter Lorre. He has those classic Hollywood features — instantly accessible, forever unknowable — and when he walks down the street with his co-stars, Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, people’s heads turn. He’s Bing the Great Dane.
‘Freaky Tales’ a nostalgic, very gory ode to ’80s Oakland

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Apr 03, 2025 8:21 am - Remember what it was like growing up in the East Bay in the ’80s? Ryan Fleck sure does, and vividly. The writer-director, together with partner Anna Boden, has produced a self-described “very weird” love letter to his former home in “Freaky Tales.”
Naomi Watts, Great Dane share solace after loss in ‘The Friend’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Apr 03, 2025 8:06 am - Having it all means different things to everyone, but a rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan is probably pretty close to a universal dream. It’s easy enough, then, to understand the conundrum facing Iris (Naomi Watts), a writer, who suddenly finds herself with a 150-pound Great Dane ward after an unexpected death in “The Friend.”
Totally bananas: Jason Momoa shines in 'A Minecraft Movie'

By MARK KENNEDY
Apr 02, 2025 4:51 pm - The latest IP to be mined into a Hollywood blockbuster is appropriately a video game that celebrates digging: “A Minecraft Movie.” The Jared Hess-directed action-adventure artfully straddles the line between delighting preteen gamers and keeping their parents awake.
Val Kilmer, 'Top Gun' and Batman star with an intense approach, dies at 65

By MARK KENNEDY and ANDREW DALTON
Apr 02, 2025 12:04 am - Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in “Top Gun,” donned a voluminous cape as Batman in “Batman Forever” and portrayed Jim Morrison in “The Doors,” has died. He was 65.
The Beatles biopics cast revealed: Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Joseph Quinn and Harris Dickinson

By KRYSTA FAURIA
Apr 01, 2025 8:11 am - Hollywood studio executives are making their case for theatergoing with a little help from John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr — along with the newly announced stars set to play them.
What to stream: Elton John & Brandi Carlile, Michelle Williams on FX and Kevin Bacon hunts demons

Mar 31, 2025 5:30 am - “Snow White” star Rachel Zegler leads the horror comedy “Y2K,” “Pulse” is Netflix’s first English-language medical procedural and the Criterion Channel is adding a batch of Vietnam War films around the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
Statham’s ‘A Working Man’ upsets ‘Snow White’ to take No. 1 at the box office

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 30, 2025 2:55 pm - In an unexpected upset, the Jason Statham thriller “A Working Man” took No. 1 at the box office, besting the rapidly declining “Snow White,” according to studio estimates Sunday.
Can the ‘feel-good’ movie exist in 2025? ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ proves maybe it can

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 28, 2025 1:26 pm - By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how it speaks to now. But that’s not so easy when your movie is about a handful of people off the coast of Wales brought together by old songs. Yet one of the many charms of “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is that it has no intentions of timeliness.

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