“Belfast,” set in 1970s Northern Ireland, and director Jane Campion’s Western “The Power of the Dog” got seven nods each. The winners of the Golden Globes will be announced on Jan. Critics objected to the Foreign Press Association having no Black members, and raised longstanding ethical questions over whether close relationships with Hollywood studios influenced […]
The first in Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Hispanic lawmakers and experts earlier this year had also pushed for the inclusion of “Selena,” Gregory Nava’s 1997 biopic of the Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez that starred Jennifer Lopez in her first major film role. The Library of Congress said in a statement […]
To anyone who’s exclaimed in the last ten or so years something like, “Another Spider-Man movie??,” the new film Spider-Man: No Way Home has a pithy reply. Well, to be fair, Spider-Man was always a Marvel property; he just lives at Sony because of deals that long predate Kevin Feige’s Disney-backed conquest of the content […]
As usual, a few big blockbusters have made the cut. The three-minute clip, of a Ringling Bros circus parading through a prosperous Black neighborhood in Indianapolis, is a rare cinematic glimpse of a real African-American community from this era. It’s an aviation romance now thought to have helped inspire the Tuskegee Airmen and, was part […]
But things go wrong and soon Spider-Man villains from the past — specifically, past villains from the Tobey Maguire “Spider-Man” films and the Andrew Garfield “The Amazing Spider-Man” movies — emerge to face off against Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There are a few clunky moments where you have to remind yourself what happened […]
The heirs of Piet Mondrian have challenged the Philadelphia Museum of Art over ownership of a painting by the Dutch artist that representatives of the estate claim was looted by the Nazis. She entrusted it to a museum in Hanover, Germany, that was later raided by the National Socialist authorities in 1937, shortly before Mondrian […]
A strong advocate for women’s empowerment, Sandhu is actor who draws inspiration from Priyanka Chopra. “Despite the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic placed in our path, we knew how to maintain the balance between health and the economy, to bring tourism back to Israel,” Razvozov said. …Read the full story
Her fans are remembering Anne Rice, author of “The Vampire Chronicles.” She died Saturday at age 80 due to complications from a stroke. Drawing from a short story she’d written, Rice started “Interview With The Vampire.” She told Publishers Weekly, suddenly, through the guise of a fantasy character, I was able to touch the reality […]
Four siblings and a cousin vying for control of a multi-million-dollar media company – that’s the premise of “Succession.” Last night, the third season of the HBO show wrapped up with some major power grabs. CORNISH: I was only teasing – spoiler alerts ahead for the whole conversation, starting with the fate of the troubled […]
Instead of taking his life, the young man calls the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. “It’s holding on, though the road’s long, seeing light in the darkest things,” Cara sang. They’re like, ‘Oh, this guy is like me.’ And so I think openly discussing depression and anxiety and the darker side of life […]
Snoop, cool as he is, stumbled over the names of quite a few nominees, including megastar Ben Affleck. It’s tough to see how the nominations revealed for films and TV shows in 2021 — which weren’t particularly groundbreaking — argue for the Globes’ influence, especially on the television side. Now, Uzo Aduba and Michaela Jae […]
The fear that Kendall might have drowned turned out to be misplaced, by the concern wasn’t: As the show’s third-season finale, “And the Bells Say,” makes clear, Kendall was actually trying to die by suicide, and it was only quick action by his publicist Comfrey that kept him alive. Lili Loofbourow: I may have been […]
A pioneer of abstract art, Mondrian painted “Composition With Blue” — a work comprising two black lines against a white background and a small triangle of blue — while living in Paris in 1926. “American museums should no longer keep Nazi-looted art in their collections,” said Lawrence M. Mondrian had consigned “Composition With Blue” to […]
Anne Rice, the novelist whose “Interview With the Vampire” and other lush, bestselling gothic tales reinvented the blood-drinking immortal as tragic antihero, has died. …Read the full story
His iconic rendition of the song “Volver Volver” propelled him to fame, but it’s in another major hit, “Por Tu Maldito Amor,” that his agony and longing are on full display. It’s become a musical standard at any special occasion hosted by someone of Mexican descent — everyone knows the lyrics. Despite the subject matter […]
The conference had shifted to the larger International Ballroom of the hotel, the stated reason being COVID-19—which, to the HFPA’s credit, was taken seriously; proof of recent negative tests and vaccination were required, and oxygen and temperature were checked upon arrival—with press seated at tables on the same floor as mingling HFPA members. Rumors began […]
All her episodes were filmed in one day last October, which means Canipe already knows the outcome of the semi-finals airing this Tuesday. “What I was most excited for last week was that I would finally not have to keep that secret,” she said. History, not so much, Canipe said, but as someone who reads a lot and has […]
