Movies
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Q&A with Jamie Lee Curtis: Why letting your 5-year-old watch 'Halloween' is just wrong
Sep 28, 2020 6:00 am - Every Friday, national arts reporter Geoff Edgers hosts The Washington Post's first Instagram Live show from his barn in Concord, Mass. He has interviewed, among others,...
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New Blu-ray box, HBO Max's Looney library celebrate Bugs Bunny's 80th anniversarySep 26, 2020 6:00 am - Do you know the name of the first Bugs Bunny cartoon, or the year it premiered? Do you remember the last time you saw a vintage Bugs Bunny cartoon on television? Or the ...
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Advisory regarding weekly Box Office story
Sep 25, 2020 7:00 am - Editors: Please note that beginning Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020, The Associated Press will move its weekly Box Office story on merits only. If sent, the story will not conta...
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Film drama 'Kajillionaire' pays off with whimsical coming-of-age tale
Sep 24, 2020 6:00 am - “Kajillionaire” — ★ ★ ★ We've been blessed, of late, with excellent movies about families of grifters. There was Hirokazu Kore-eda's gloriously heartfelt “Shoplift...
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'Dreaming Grand Avenue' takes odd, imaginative detours in Chicago-set dramaSep 24, 2020 6:00 am - “Dreaming Grand Avenue” - ★ ★ ★ Hugh Schulze's literally poetic “Dreaming Grand Avenue” skirts across genres with the reliable grace of an el train hitting every s...
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Millie Bobby Brown charms as Sherlock's little sister in Netflix's 'Enola Holmes'
Sep 23, 2020 11:00 pm - “Enola Holmes” — ★ ★ ½ There is a long, questionable and occasionally successful tradition of spinning off iconic literary and film characters through relatives dis...
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Jude Law, Carrie Coon on the moody marital drama 'The Nest'
Sep 22, 2020 6:00 am - Carrie Coon so badly wanted the slow-burn familial drama “The Nest” to be made, she told its director that she'd step aside so that he could cast “someone more famous” i...
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Cascade Drive-In theater takes first step in bid to reopen in West ChicagoSep 22, 2020 1:00 am - The iconic Cascade Drive-In in West Chicago is trying to flicker back to life 18 months after the "ozoner" went dark, at that time leaving only one other drive-in in the...
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13 overlooked horror films to check out before HalloweenSep 21, 2020 6:00 am - Every year around this time, the nation's top film critics should gather together for a giant Zoom meeting to hash out a list of the 13 most overlooked scary movies for ...
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Horrors of slavery at center of Janelle Monae's 'Antebellum'
Sep 21, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Janelle Monae says she “felt so much rage and anger” when she stepped onto a former slave plantation for the first time to film the psychological thriller “An...