Movies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM, celebrates its 100th anniversary

6:50am April 17, 2024

The Hollywood Heritage Museum is showcasing the studio's history. Highlights include personal items and costumes worn by Golden Age stars including Humphrey Bogart, Mae West and Clark Gable.

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Sports

'The Long Game': Story of Mexican American high schoolers who became golf champs

5:06am April 17, 2024

In 1957, a group of Mexican American high school students overcame racist barriers to win the Texas state golf championship. The story is told in the new film The Long Game.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the former armorer of the movie Rust, during her trial in Santa Fe, N.M., on March 6, 2024.

'Rust' armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed sentenced to 18 months in prison

2:42pm April 15, 2024

by Mandalit del Barco

Gutierrez-Reed has been in custody since she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March by a New Mexico jury. Her attorney asked for probation and will appeal the case.

Arts
Books

Why Patricia Highsmith's most famous creature, Tom Ripley, continues to fascinate

11:07am April 15, 2024

by Carole V. Bell

Sinister and visually stunning, the new Netflix series Ripley reminds us why Patricia Highsmith's book The Talented Mr. Ripley continues to influence popular culture.

'Rust' armorer, convicted of involuntary manslaughter in March, faces sentencing

5:08am April 15, 2024

by Mandalit del Barco

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the set of the movie Rust, is to be sentenced Monday for her role in the accidental shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.

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From the HBO documentary Brandy Hellville & The Cult of Fast Fashion.

Arts

Three eye-opening documentaries you can stream right now

7:00am April 14, 2024

by Linda Holmes

In the streaming era it can be hard to keep track of all the new docs and docuseries. We recommend checking out: What Jennifer Did, Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion and The Synanon Fix.

Arts

Filmmaker and Coppola family matriarch Eleanor Coppola dies at 87

6:56pm April 13, 2024

by Chloe Veltman

The documentarian was known for chronicling the movie-making process of family members Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola.

Arts

Dystopian film 'Civil War' follows journalists covering a second American civil war

6:13pm April 12, 2024

by Bob Mondello

Alex Garland's dystopian thriller Civil War depicts a current-day, less-than-united states of America in which journalists are scrambling to get to the White House before rebel factions do.

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Books
Arts

A look back at how Godzilla and King Kong first roared onto screen

1:23pm April 12, 2024

by Terry Gross

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is out. We listen back to archival interviews with film historian Rudy Behlmer about the original 1933 King Kong and with Steve Ryfle about the original 1954 Godzilla.

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Kirsten Dunst plays a battle scarred photojournalist in Civil War.

Arts

'Civil War' is a doomsday thought experiment — that could have used more thinking

1:23pm April 12, 2024

by Justin Chang

This ambitious thriller comes across as an empty stunt — a democracy dystopia that sidesteps the politics of the present moment. But Kirsten Dunst is excellent as a battle scarred photojournalist.

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