Movies

Lizzy Caplan as Alex Forrest and Joshua Jackson as Dan Gallagher in Fatal Attraction.

Arts

A new 'Fatal Attraction' is definitely aware of your critiques of the original

11:51am April 27, 2023

by Aisha Harris

Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan and star in an uninspired reboot of the 1987 thriller — which tries really hard to mount an enlightened case for its existence.

Remembing groundbreaking singer, actor and lifelong activist Harry Belafonte

4:26pm April 25, 2023

by Elizabeth Blair

Singer, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte died Tuesday. He was 96. He broke racial barriers and balanced his activism with his artistry in ways that made people around the world listen.

Judy Blume, author of "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," poses for a portrait at Books and Books, her non-profit bookstore in Key West, Florida.

Arts
Books

Judy Blume has never been afraid to speak her mind

5:00pm April 21, 2023

by Manuela López Restrepo

The iconic children's author has been tackling criticism and censorship long before the current trend sweeping American libraries.

Joaquin Phoenix's character is attacked, tortured, threatened, knocked unconscious and terrorized in Ari Aster's Beau is Afraid.

Arts

Horror-comedy 'Beau Is Afraid' is a passion project gone astray

2:55pm April 21, 2023

by Justin Chang

Ari Aster's three-hour odyssey, featuring Joaquin Phoenix as a middle-aged man on a quest to visit his mother, is the kind of freakish jumble only a gifted filmmaker could make.

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This aerial photo shows the movie set of Rust in Santa Fe, N.M., on Oct. 23, 2021. Prosecutors in New Mexico plan to drop an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film.

Charges against Alec Baldwin in the 'Rust' movie set shooting dropped for now

11:31pm April 20, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

Prosecutors in New Mexico have dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

National

'Guy Ritchie's The Covenant' marks a change of tone, but not pace for Ritchie

4:44pm April 20, 2023

by Bob Mondello

An American soldier struggles to help an Afghani interpreter who saved his life in Guy Ritchie's The Covenant.

Author Judy Blume is finally ready to tell her own story in new documentary

4:28pm April 20, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with author Judy Blume and filmmaker Davina Pardo about Judy Blume Forever, a documentary on the life and impact of one of the most celebrated children's writers.

This aerial photo shows the movie set of "Rust" at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M., on Oct. 23, 2021. Filming on the Western movie could resume this week in Montana, the production company said.

National

Filming on Alec Baldwin's movie 'Rust' is shifting to Montana

11:06am April 20, 2023

by The Associated Press

Filming is set to resume this week in Montana, in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of a cinematographer during a rehearsal with actor Alec Baldwin on the original production in New Mexico in 2021.

Writers Guild of America members and supporters picket in front of NBC studios ahead of proposed contract in February 2008.

Arts

'We're just at a breaking point': Hollywood writers vote to authorize strike

5:39pm April 17, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

Members of the Writers Guild of America have voted to authorize a strike if their talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers don't end in a new contract by midnight May 1.

New horror comedy 'Renfield' is about Count Dracula's long-suffering servant

5:03am April 17, 2023

The new vampire comedy stars Nicolas Cage as Dracula and Nicholas Hoult as his servant. It's an update to the Renfield character, and an homage to the way he's been played in the past.