Arts

Daniel (Timothée Chalamet) doesn't get very far, though he does have a car, in Hot Summer Nights.

Arts

'Hot Summer Nights' Loves The '90s, But Not Its Main Character

5:01pm July 26, 2018

by Scott Tobias

Writer/director Elijah Bynum's debut feature, a "nostalgia-soaked coming-of-age drama set in 1991 Cape Cod," is so beholden to its influences it never manages to escape their shadow.

Scotty Bowers, pictured here in his Marine uniform, ran a gas station in post-WWII Hollywood that provided a unique service for many movie stars of the era.

Arts

'Scotty And The Secret History Of Hollywood': The Man Who Sold Sex To The Stars

5:00pm July 26, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

The documentary about Scotty Bowers, who procured same-sex lovers for many of Hollywood's biggest stars, skimps on emotional depth to let its subject dish gossip in his charming, gregarious way.

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, givin' the people what they want, in Mission: Impossible - Fallout.

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Spectacular Real-World Stunts Make 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout' A Blast

5:00pm July 26, 2018

Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie returns to the M:I franchise with jaw-dropping stunts and set pieces, ensuring that "Fallout's sky-high thrill quotient obliterates that of all competitors."

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'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' And 'Nanette' Brim With Heart And Humanity

1:47pm July 26, 2018

by John Powers

Morgan Neville's moving documentary about Fred Rogers and Netflix's stand-up special starring Australian comic Hannah Gadsby both refuse to play along with established genre conventions.

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Books
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An Aging Philip Marlowe Returns In 'Only To Sleep'

7:00am July 26, 2018

by Jason Sheehan

Lawrence Osborne's new Marlowe novel brings us a version of the gumshoe in his 70s, lonely and slow, looking into another mysterious death. It's a book that seems simple, but hides cavernous depths.

Oh, they go there, all right. From L to R: Beast Boy (Greg Cipes), Starfire (Hynden Walch), Robin (Scott Menville), Raven (Tara Strong) and Cyborg (Khary Payton) bust moves — and heads.

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'Teen Titans GO! To The Movies': Joke! Gag! DC Films Aren't Just For Mopes Anymore!

5:00am July 26, 2018

by Glen Weldon

This bright, silly and breezily funny film finds the Cartoon Network heroes going Hollywood, bringing deep-cut DC Comics references — and fart jokes — with them.

Books
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Parker Posey Writes Her Own Myth In 'You're On An Airplane'

7:56pm July 25, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

This "self-mythologizing memoir," which Posey pronounces "me-moir," is written as if it's a monologue to an airplane seatmate, full of collages, cocktail recipes and stories from her life and career.

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The exterior of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

Kennedy Center Names Its 2018 Honorees

4:14pm July 25, 2018

by Andrew Flanagan

Cher, Reba McEntire, Wayne Shorter, Philip Glass and the creators of Hamilton will be celebrated at this year's gala on Dec. 2.

Arts

'Miseducation Of Cameron Post' Creators Take Aim At Gay Conversion Therapy

4:00pm July 25, 2018

by Terry Gross

Desiree Akhavan's new film, based on Emily Danforth's 2012 young adult novel, centers on a high school girl who's sent to a Christian conversion center after she's caught kissing her girlfriend.

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A masked Somali pirate stands near a Taiwanese fishing vessel that washed up in 2012 after the pirates were paid a ransom and released the crew. The image appears on the cover of Michael Scott Moore's new book The Desert and the Sea.

What It's Like To Be Held Hostage By Somali Pirates For 2 1/2 Years

4:39pm July 24, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

Journalist Michael Scott Moore went to East Africa to write about piracy. Then he got kidnapped and imprisoned for 977 days. The Desert and the Sea chronicles his incredible ordeal.

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