Movies

The adventures of Middle Earth will soon continue in theaters

7:13am May 10, 2024

Andy Serkis, the actor who portrayed Gollum, the tormented creature obsessed with the One Ring to rule them all, in Lord of the Rings, will reprise the role in two films centered around the character.

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Arts

Jane Schoenbrun tells story of two outcast teens in the 1990s in 'I Saw the TV Glow'

5:39pm May 08, 2024

It's Been a Minute's Brittany Luse talks with Jane Schoenbrun, the writer and director of I Saw the TV Glow, about two suburban teens in the 1990s who bond over a show.

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Music & Culture

The 1970 documentary 'Let It Be' is getting its first official release since 1981

6:54am May 08, 2024

The documentary is about the making of the Beatles' album of the same name. Its raw footage was the basis of Peter Jackson's eight hour series Get Back. The new release is only 80 minutes long.

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Bernard Hill, who starred in 'Titanic' and 'The Lord of the Rings,' dies at 79

2:34pm May 05, 2024

by Juliana Kim

The English actor played Captain Edward John Smith in the 1997 film Titanic as well as King Théoden of Rohan in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Ryan Gosling plays stunt man Colt Seavers in the new movie The Fall Guy, a new take on the 1980s TV show.

Arts

In 'The Fall Guy,' stunts finally get the spotlight

7:00am May 05, 2024

by Mandalit del Barco

For years, Hollywood's behind-the-scenes action heroes have been pushing for an Oscars category to honor their work. Many hope The Fall Guy will make it a reality.

In an episode of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee called "Larry Eats A Pancake," Jerry Seinfeld has coffee with Larry David.

Jerry Seinfeld and the fraught history of comedians and 'political correctness'

6:21am May 04, 2024

by Leah Donnella

Jerry Seinfeld has the become the latest in a string of public figures to blame "political correctness" for the death of comedy (among other societal ills). But what does the term actually refer to?

Ryan Gosling is Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy.

Arts

Ryan Gosling is 'The Fall Guy' in this cheerfully nonsensical stuntman thriller

1:32pm May 03, 2024

by Justin Chang

Though it might have benefited from tighter editing, there's no denying the pleasure of this gloriously overwrought film.

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National

'The Fall Guy' entertains as an action-adventure romcom while revealing movie magic

6:27pm May 02, 2024

by Bob Mondello

In the new stunt-crammed romcom The Fall Guy, Ryan Gosling is a stuntman, and Emily Blunt is both his ex and his director.

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A crowd of White House press looks on as Kanye West and then-President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office on Oct. 11, 2018.

Rappers took the White House. Now what?

4:06pm May 02, 2024

by Sheldon Pearce

A new documentary, Hip-Hop and the White House, considers rap's association with presidential politics — and in so doing, reveals a persistent misunderstanding of how both operate.

Harvey Weinstein appears in at Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday, May 1.

Arts

Harvey Weinstein's New York trial, round two, is likely to move forward in the fall

8:55pm May 01, 2024

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The New York State Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein's 2020 conviction last week, ruling that his trial was unfair.