Movies
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Plans solidify for 93rd Oscars: No Zoom, no sweatshirts
Mar 21, 2021 11:00 pm - With nominations set and just over a month until showtime, details are trickling out about the 93rd Oscars and neither sweatshirts nor Zoom made the cut. "Our plan is th...
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'Borat,' 'Promising Young Woman' win at Writers Guild Awards
Mar 21, 2021 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - Sacha Baron Cohen's "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" was partly improvised and scripted by nine writers, but it still walked away Sunday night with one of the Wri...
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'Operation Varsity Blues' re-enacts and reorients a scandal
Mar 21, 2021 7:30 am - NEW YORK - Chris Smith didn't initially think the 2019 college bribery scandal made for a good documentary subject. He was editing "Fyre," the hit Netflix documentary ab...
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Chadwick Boseman is posthumously nominated for an Oscar
Mar 18, 2021 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - Half a year after his death, Chadwick Boseman was posthumously nominated for an Academy Award on Monday for his final performance in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom...
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A by-the-numbers look at a year of Oscar diversity, firsts
Mar 18, 2021 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - A look, by the numbers, at notable facts, figures and trivia from the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards: 11 - First-time acting nominees. With the pa...
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Cumberbatch plays everyman spy in espionage thriller 'The Courier'
Mar 18, 2021 6:00 am - “The Courier” - ★ ★ ½ The new Cold War film “The Courier” about a Soviet whistleblower and the British businessman who helped transport information to Western intel...
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Widescreen: Alternate versions of your favorite movies that you should avoidMar 18, 2021 6:00 am - "Zack Snyder's Justice League," the four-hour revision of the 2017 would-be blockbuster by its original director, arrives on HBO Max this weekend after years of rumors a...
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'Happily' meshes millennials, marriage and murder into uneven thriller
Mar 18, 2021 6:00 am - “Happily” — ★ ★ “How did we find this place, anyway?” Wait, where have we heard that before? Actually, it's a familiar line in a new genre of thriller that's emerge...
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'Mank' leads Oscar nominations in a year of record diversity
Mar 15, 2021 1:00 am - NEW YORK - In a year in which the pandemic shuttered movie theaters for months, Academy Awards nominations went to two female filmmakers for the first time and a histori...
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For 23-year-old Ciara Bravo, 'Cherry' is a star-making role
Mar 12, 2021 5:00 am - Ciara Bravo didn't have high hopes for her prospects when she saw the names attached to “Cherry.” She'd been working in the business for over a decade, but it was mostly...