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Taylor Richardson, a 14-year-old aspiring astronaut, raised more than $100,000 to send girls to see the movie A Wrinkle In Time.

Arts

14-Year-Old Raises $100,000 To Treat Girls To 'A Wrinkle In Time'

2:01pm March 14, 2018

by Asia Simone Burns

Taylor Richardson set up a GoFundMe to raise $15,000 to send 1,000 girls to see the Disney film. But, with the help of J.J. Abrams, Chris Pine and Oprah, she surpassed her goal.

National

In 'Bomb City,' First-Time Filmmakers Tell True Crime Story From Texas

4:26pm March 12, 2018

by Wade Goodwyn

Two filmmakers from Amarillo, Texas, released their debut film about the death of a young man in the late '90s after a jocks versus punks brawl that got widespread national attention and exposed deep divisions in the city. The film, Bomb City, carries a nickname for Amarillo, the only city in the country with a nuclear assembly plant.

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French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy at his design house at the Plaine Monceau in Paris, circa 1955. Givenchy has died at age 91.

Arts

Hubert de Givenchy, Famed Couturier, Dies At 91

11:55am March 12, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

Known for designing the little black numbers worn by Audrey Hepburn, a British fashion declared of his first collection: "These dresses remind you of that first, best, glass of champagne."

Storm Reid plays Meg Murry in 'A Wrinkle In Time.'

Arts

Storm Reid Says Making 'A Wrinkle In Time' Was 'A Dream Come True'

5:54pm March 09, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

The new film follows her character across the universe on a quest for her missing father. Reid says it was important "to be able to not only see myself but represent other girls that looked like me."

Demi Lovato and DJ Khaled appear at The Grove in Los Angeles in Nov. 2017.

Music & Culture

A Look At The Very, Very Earnest Soundtrack To 'A Wrinkle In Time'

3:51pm March 09, 2018

The soundtrack to Disney's newest blockbuster bildungsroman matches the bright-eyed whimsy of the film — maybe a little too much.

Greg Sestero, left, and Tommy Wiseau, co-stars of The Room. Sestero has directed a new, two-volume film, Best F(r)iends, that co-stars Wiseau.

Music & Culture

A Tale Of Friendship And Luck (But Not Pecs), Propelled By 'The Room'

2:56pm March 09, 2018

by Beca Grimm

For the Kyoto-based, Alabama-born duo of Nice Legs, its band name was more than just an homage to The Room -- it was an homage to friendship that ended up yielding a sorta-lucky break.

Arts

With Go-For-Broke Exuberance, 'A Wrinkle In Time' Celebrates The Power Of Love

2:33pm March 09, 2018

by Justin Chang

Ava DuVernay's adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's novel assets that a young girl's imagination can change the world. Critic Justin Chang says despite some gaudiness, the film has its own kind of magic.

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Stalin's Dead and Red in The Death of Stalin. L to R: Dermot Crowley as Kaganovich; Paul Whitehouse as Mikoyan; Steve Buscemi as Krushchev; Jeffrey Tambor as Malenkov; Paul Chahidi as Bulganin.

Arts

Iannucci's 'The Death Of Stalin': Amid Chaos, Great Energy

10:05pm March 08, 2018

by Ella Taylor

Armando Iannucci directs this lacerating, frenetic dissection of the power vacuum left by Stalin's death. The director "never overtly winks at current parallels East or West. He doesn't have to."

Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) finds himself in some unexpected trouble on his business trip to Mexico in Gringo.

Arts

A Good Man's Moral Compass Points South-Of-The-Border In 'Gringo'

5:01pm March 08, 2018

by Chris Klimek

Though it traffics in broad stereotypes, several funny performances nearly salvage this satiric tale of a faked kidnapping, greedy executives and dim-bulb criminals.

Lily (Anya Taylor-Jo, L) and Amanda (Olivia Cooke, R) hatch a plot to kill a troublesome step-father in Thoroughbreds.

Arts

Tense, Stylish 'Thoroughbreds' Earns Place In Winner's Circle

5:01pm March 08, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

Murder Most Foal: Two teenage girls — a champion horseback rider and a fashionable boarding school student — plan a bloody deed in this "blistering new comic thriller."