Movies
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Wonder and war: New chapter opens on Pandora in ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’
Dec 16, 2025 10:39 am - “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” at well more than three hours, is our longest stay yet on Pandora, and the one most likely to make you ponder why you came here in the first place. You can feel James Cameron’s deep devotion to the dynamics of his central characters, even when his interest outstrips our own.
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What to stream: ‘Emily in Paris,’ iHeartRadio Jingle Ball, ‘Him,’ Peter Criss and Riz Ahmed
Dec 15, 2025 5:15 am - Marlon Wayans starring in the Jordan Peele-produced football thriller “Him” and iHeartRadio Z100’s Jingle Ball 2025 featuring Conan Gray, Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll and Olivia Dean are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘Zootopia 2’ retakes No. 1 at box office, crosses $1 billion worldwide
Dec 14, 2025 1:45 pm - “Zootopia 2” regained the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office with $26.3 million in its third weekend of release, according to studio estimates Sunday, as The Walt Disney Co. animated sequel became the year’s second film to gross $1 billion worldwide.
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Aussie snowboarder Scotty James reveals the price he paid and what’s still missing in documentary
Dec 12, 2025 11:18 am - “Pipe Dream,” which comes out Friday, Dec. 19, on Netflix, uses decades’ worth of home and handheld footage to take us on the heartfelt road Aussie snowboarder Scotty James traveled to become one of the best in his sport.
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Oscars recognize casting for the first time, offering a spotlight on a key job in the movie industry
Dec 12, 2025 10:47 am - Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part “Wicked” movies were people actually pulling the strings. “Our job is to know the actors that are out there or know how to find the actors that we don’t know,” says casting director Bernard Telsey, who helped populate both “Wicked” movies.
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Ambitious ‘Scarlet’ transplants ‘Hamlet’ to an anime dreamworld
Dec 11, 2025 12:43 pm - The Japanese writer-director Mamoru Hosoda has made some amazing films that take profound leaps into dreamlike worlds. Yet in his latest, “Scarlet,” the director’s enviable reach exceeds his grasp.
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The Associated Press names its Breakthrough Entertainers of 2025
Dec 11, 2025 8:38 am - Owen Cooper emphatically announced himself to the world in 2025. At 15, the “Adolescence” star became the youngest male acting winner at the Emmy Awards. The actor’s rocket-fueled arrival was just one of several notable career turns that got the world of entertainment talking this year.
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Kate Winslet plays it safe in her directorial debut
Dec 11, 2025 8:25 am - “Goodbye June” is a sweet but bland Christmas film that relies too heavily on its talented cast to make up for its narrative shortcomings — a surprising choice for actress Kate Winslet’s directorial debut, until you take note of who wrote the screenplay, her 21-year-old son.
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Emma Mackey battles political scandal and wooden script in ‘Ella McCay’
Dec 11, 2025 5:15 am - “I can’t trust my brain right now,” says our hero, Ella, deep into James L. Brooks’ bafflingly disjointed, uneven, unfunny and illogical “Ella McCay.” It’s your script you can’t trust, Ella! Run away from it. Now.
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What Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros. means for the movies
Dec 08, 2025 3:06 pm - Netflix’s deal to acquire Warner Bros., one of Hollywood’s oldest movie studios, poses seismic shifts to the entertainment industry and the future of moviegoing.