Movies
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A new Netflix doc offers an intimate portrait of Selena, straight from her family’s vault
Nov 14, 2025 3:33 pm - “I do understand that what Selena means so many years later, to the Latino world,” her sister Suzette Quintanilla says. “Who better than to tell our story other than us?” she says of the new Netflix documentary “Selena Y Los Dinos: A Family’s Legacy.”
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A dying poet embraces life in ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’
Nov 14, 2025 10:12 am - Periodically, some charismatic person with a terminal diagnosis steps into the role of societal sage. The documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light” gives us a new teacher, the celebrated slam poet Andrea Gibson, who died in July at age 49, four years after an ovarian cancer diagnosis.
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A new Ira Sachs film resurrects Peter Hujar, and something far greater
Nov 14, 2025 9:19 am - The quiet and compelling film “Peter Hujar’s Day” uses Hujar’s own words, discovered on a transcript at the Morgan Library in New York, to recount the minutiae of a single day in the life of the photographer who died of AIDS complications in 1987.
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Evoking a Pacific Northwest past, ‘Train Dreams’ stirs a plaintive elegy
Nov 13, 2025 4:29 pm - In scouting for “Train Dreams,” director Clint Bentley found it harder than ever to find the old growth forests of the book. If “Train Dreams” is about unearthing a forever-lost American past, locating it for the film was fittingly elusive.
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Nicolas Cage’s ‘The Carpenter’s Son’ turns an apocryphal text about Jesus’ youth into a horror film
Nov 13, 2025 9:50 am - When filmmaker Lotfy Nathan was introduced to the apocryphal text about Jesus’ childhood, he immediately began poring over it as a springboard for what would eventually become “The Carpenter’s Son,” the supernatural thriller starring Nicolas Cage opening in theaters Friday.
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Disney streaming and parks shine in fourth quarter, but some TV networks, movies weaker
Nov 13, 2025 8:09 am - Disney's fourth-quarter performance was mixed as a weaker performance from its television networks and some films was buffered by strength in its streaming business and theme parks.
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‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ brings back the magic with new faces and tricks
Nov 13, 2025 5:15 am - Ten years or so between installments of a successful Hollywood franchise is a lifetime. When it comes to the third “Now You See Me” movie — poof! — time doesn’t matter. These magicians still got it.
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Time has outrun this ‘Running Man’
Nov 13, 2025 5:15 am - Edgar Wright’s new big-screen adaptation of “The Running Man” is fittingly but awkwardly timed. Arriving in the year of Stephen King’s imagined dystopia, its near-future has little in it that isn’t already plausible today, making this remake feel a step, or two, behind.
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Adele will make her acting debut in Tom Ford’s adaptation of ‘Cry to Heaven’
Nov 12, 2025 12:31 pm - Fashion designer Tom Ford has called up Adele to co-star in his adaptation of Anne Rice’s “Cry to Heaven,” his production company said Wednesday. The film, which Ford is writing, directing and producing, will mark the acting debut of the superstar singer.
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Ready for his closeup: Suburban middle schooler makes big-screen debut with Glen Powell in ‘Running Man’ remake
Nov 11, 2025 2:05 pm - Crystal Lake middle school student Mason Houltram, 12, will be making his debut on the silver screen this week, playing the role of “kid on train” in a remake of the iconic 1987 film “The Running Man.”