Movies
-
New to streaming this week: Jamie Foxx in 'Project Power'
Aug 11, 2020 6:00 am - Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. Movies “Boys ...
-
Widescreen: Home release of 'Mulan' is a necessary gamble for DisneyAug 07, 2020 9:10 am - In 2015, this column asked if you would pay $100 to watch "Avengers: Age of Ultron" at home the same weekend it opened in theaters. That question was inspired by a Satur...
-
What to know about Beyoncé's 'Lion King'-inspired visual album 'Black Is King'
Aug 07, 2020 6:00 am - Beyoncé Knowles-Carter released “Black Is King” in the wee hours of last Friday morning, roughly one month after publicly announcing that she had shot a companion piece ...
-
'She Dies Tomorrow' a queasily effective horror film for the times
Aug 07, 2020 6:00 am - “She Dies Tomorrow” - ★ ★ Writer-director Amy Seimetz dredges up a queasily effective sense of impending doom in “She Dies Tomorrow,” a vivid but vaporous portrait...
-
Low-key 'Secret Garden' still blooms in latest film adaptation
Aug 07, 2020 6:00 am - “The Secret Garden” -- ★ ★ ½ For more than a century, Frances Hodgson Burnett's “The Secret Garden,” first published in 1911, has endured. It remains one of the gr...
-
For Liam Neeson and son, 'Made in Italy' was a family affair
Aug 06, 2020 11:00 pm - When Liam Neeson sits down with a script, he usually knows within five pages whether he wants to do it. He calls it his "cup of tea" test. If he finds himself eager to g...
-
Seth Rogen does double duty in sweet HBO Max fable 'An American Pickle'
Aug 06, 2020 6:00 am - “An American Pickle” - ★ ★ ½ The funniest part of “An American Pickle” isn't even really in the movie. It's a little scene in the middle of the credits in which Se...
-
Performances lift slow-moving film drama 'Waiting for the Barbarians'
Aug 06, 2020 6:00 am - “Waiting for the Barbarians” - ★ ★ ½ Watching Mark Rylance play a man of basic decency getting swallowed up by an evil world — and a sadistic Johnny Depp — in “Wai...
-
Big screen blockbusters coming to a Walmart parking lot near youAug 06, 2020 1:00 am - It didn't take long for word of Walmart's drive-in film series to spread. And once it did, reservations for the retail giant's parking lot screenings sold out within hou...
-
New this week: Luke Bryan, Jeff Foxworthy and two Seth Rogens
Aug 04, 2020 6:00 am - Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. Music • Countr...