Movies

Katherine (Florence Pugh) is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age.

Arts

'Lady Macbeth': A New Bride Flouts The Rigid Rules Of Society — And Humanity

5:14pm July 13, 2017

by Ella Taylor

In this unsentimental, unflinching, increasingly harrowing film, a young woman in Victorian England internalizes the various cruelties visited upon her ... until she doesn't.

Caesar (Andy Serkis, center) and his fellow apes prepare to cross a moral Rubicon in War for the Planet of the Apes.

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'War For The Planet Of The Apes' Employs Small-Scale Gorilla Tactics

5:00pm July 13, 2017

by Chris Klimek

The latter-day Apes prequel trilogy concludes quietly, without cinematic chest-thumping. Critic Chris Klimek says the result is "suspenseful, mournful, grand and sensitively performed."

Chasing Coral follows a team of researchers and filmmakers as they document coral bleaching events.

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'Chasing Coral': Documentary Vividly Chronicles A Growing Threat To Oceans

5:00pm July 13, 2017

by Andrew Lapin

Director Jeff Orlowski uses time-lapse underwater cameras to demonstrate the alarming extent of a worldwide coral bleaching epidemic now endangering marine ecosystems.

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'War For The Planet Of The Apes' Offers A Masterful Vision Of Humanity's Many Forms

2:25pm July 13, 2017

by Justin Chang

There's nothing pretentious or inflated about the latest Planet of the Apes film. Rather, it's a suspense-driven movie in which it's "impossible not to root for these brave and beautiful apes."

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Documentary Reveals The 'Dirty Tricks' Of One Of Trump's Closest Political Advisers

2:15pm July 13, 2017

Morgan Pehme co-directed the new Netflix documentary, Get Me Roger Stone, about the political operative who spent three decades trying to convince Donald Trump to run for president.

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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson star in the television show, The X-Files, where they played FBI agents.

FBI's 'G-Man' Image: From Comic Books To 'The X-Files' And 'The Silence Of The Lambs'

12:56pm July 13, 2017

by Vanessa Romo

The early years of the FBI coincided with the start of the comic book era, which inspired J. Edgar Hoover to take advantage of the new medium, according to the author of The Secrets of the FBI.

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A Director's Struggle With Anorexia In 'To The Bone'

5:03am July 13, 2017

by Mandalit del Barco

Marti Noxon first made a name for herself in Hollywood as a writer and producer on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Now, she makes her directorial debut with To The Bone, a film about anorexia.

Married co-writers Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani based the romantic comedy The Big Sick on their own love story.

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How A Medically Induced Coma Led To Love, Marriage And 'The Big Sick'

6:42pm July 12, 2017

by Terry Gross

Comic Kumail Nanjiani remembers the first time he thought of marrying then-girlfriend Emily V. Gordon: when he saw her in a coma. Now the couple has co-written a romantic comedy based on their story.

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Mr. Parker Goes to Washington: Spidey (Tom Holland) scales the Washington Monument in Spider-Man: Homecoming.

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Origin-al Sin: What Hollywood Must Learn From 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'

4:41pm July 11, 2017

by Glen Weldon

For years, it seemed that origin stories were central to keeping superheroes movies grounded. Homecoming proved this suspicion wrong. It found a better way — and a different key ingredient.

Revenge of the Nerd: Or...The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger, by Curtis Armstrong.

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I, Booger: Actor Curtis Armstrong's Affable Memoir, 'Revenge Of The Nerd'

12:00pm July 11, 2017

by Glen Weldon

In Armstrong's autobiography, the classically trained actor humorously makes peace with the fact that the first line of his obituary will reference his nose-picking character from an '80s sex comedy.