Film fans like to lament, “they don’t make them like they used to,” specifically about the kinds of wry, life-affirming dramedies that director James L. Brooks perfected back in the 1980s and ‘90s, ...

“Goodbye June” is a family affair, onscreen and off. Centered on four adult siblings and their dying mother, it marks the directorial debut of Kate Winslet and has a screenplay by her 21-year-old son, ...

Anyone will tell you that these are tumultuous, borderline-apocalyptic times for the film industry. Box office is down. The threat of AI looms. Billionaires and tech giants are laying waste to what ...

Running time: 115 minutes. Rated PG-13 (strong language, some sexual material and drug content). In theaters. In the pantheon of James L. Brooks films, “Ella McCay” is far from as good as it gets.

How Many Stephen Spencer Pittmans Are Out There? Jay Kelly, a Movie Star’s Pity Party About the Cost of Fame Give Thanks AI ‘Friends’ Are No Cure for Loneliness Audio By Carbonatix The literal-minded ...

It’s always intriguing when a pair of creative artists go their separate ways and we get to see what each individual brought to the table all along. The Coen Brothers split up and Ethan Coen made a ...

Reams of scholarship and fictional takes have imagined how Shakespeare’s earthly life influenced his plays. “Hamnet” isn’t one of them. The boldly devastating film from Oscar-winning director Chloé ...

'Last night I was honored to receive the prestigious Bruce Lee Award at the AWFF!' Action star Michael Jai White made history when he accepted an award at the Asian World Film Festival (AWFF), ...

Denis Johnson’s “Train Dreams” is one of those works of literature that is dismissed as unfilmable, until someone films it. And then come the questions of fidelity. Does being faithful mean ...

After an extremely long intermission (a full year, which a lot of us spent humming “Defying Gravity”), we’re back in the Land of Oz with “Wicked: For Good,” the second half of Jon M. Chu’s screen ...

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