‘Life Itself:’ Six lessons from its box-office belly-flop
You couldn't blame anyone involved in "Life Itself" for putting money or sweat equity into the project. The sprawling family drama was the work of writer-director Dan Fogelman, who has...
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John Oliver grills Dustin Hoffman over sexual harassment allegation
HBO host John Oliver hammered Dustin Hoffman on an allegation of sexual harassment and the actor fired back with a ferocious defense as a seemingly benign screening became an explosive...
First person: How the Bill Cosby trial was — and wasn’t — like some of Hollywood’s best legal dramas
A journalist from a big city wakes up in the same one-horse Pennsylvania town every day hoping for something — anything — to be different. ?He trudges off to see...
As Bill Cosby trial begins, an O.J.-like constellation of celebrity, race and gender converges
The moment came suddenly, surprisingly. After nearly a year of sitting silently in a courtroom — and more than two years after a parade of women accusing him of sexual...
‘I, Daniel Blake’ review: Ken Loach calls attention to society’s weakest
The honor and struggle of the working class are a staple of auteur cinema — in modern days, via some of the works of the Dardenne brothers and Mike Leigh...
At Cannes, an existential fight over technology, Netflix and the future of cinema
Will Smith and Pedro Almodovar jostled over it. Silicon Valley executive Ted Sarandos defended it. The Oscar winner Alejandro Inarritu boasted about it. And the people who run the entertainment...
‘Deadpool,’ Scorsese and Viggo Mortensen: Six snubs and surprises from the Golden Globes nominations
The Golden Globes nominations haven't been as wildly surprising in recent years as it was that one year, when "The Tourist" and "Burlesque" were named two of the best comedy/musicals...
Prince’s movie legacy: Will there ever be another like ‘Purple Rain’?
It feels strange to write an item about The Kid on the day he died. But Prince was in many ways about immortality -- his music was timeless, his face...
‘Jim’ tells tale of executed war reporter, NU grad James Foley
John Foley felt a complicated set of emotions when he viewed the now infamous video of his son, the journalist James Wright Foley, being executed 18 months ago by masked...
‘The Birth of a Nation’ takes top prizes at Sundance Film Festival
Capping a historic week at the Sundance Film Festival, Nate Parker's slave-rebellion drama ?"The Birth of a Nation" took both the grand jury and audience prizes in the U.S. Dramatic...