Berry keeps the pace of her film slow. Berry puts her cast, herself included, through the paces of performing the brutal grind of the boxing ring, the release of hard drinking and the catharsis of intimate sex. …Read the full story
It was possible to discover which artists benefited from the expansion because their names were absent from an early version of the “final nominations list” that had been created several days before the announcement and included only eight names in those categories. The expansion in the top categories comes after the academy has trumpeted a […]
By some accident of fate — I often describe myself the Forrest Gump of The New York Times thanks to my random career opportunities — I was near the front of the balloon when we got the signal to get ready. And it is the only day in the city when someone could hand me […]
But 2021 was largely a year of fresh starts for the 40-year-old actress. A self-anointed “Disney adult”— her bachelorette party was held at Disneyland — Beatriz felt overjoyed when she was cast to voice Mirabel, the Latina heroine in the studio’s 60th animated feature “Encanto,” set in Colombia. By phone from London, with her newborn […]
Under the giant helium balloons bobbing across Manhattan during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday morning, people in the crowd called out to one another. A year after the virus forced the parade into a single, spectator-free block, the words felt powerful. “To just be able to be in a social environment, it’s everything!” […]
“8 Bit Christmas” is set, according to its wistful narrator Jake , in “1987 or 1988,” but it heavily features a Power Glove, whose awfulness in fact sets the plot in motion. When it isn’t fawning over roller rinks, “Goonies” posters, and Casio watches, “8 Bit Christmas” is the heart of the film, and — […]
Beginning on Tuesday with invitation-only hours, and open to the public Thursday through Saturday, it will feature 253 galleries exhibiting work inside the city’s Convention Center, as well as a dizzying number of accompanying satellite art fairs, pop-up shows, and celebrity-studded private dinners. Clare McAndrew found that nearly half of the 700 surveyed dealers saw […]
“Live in Raccoon City? No way,” a truck driver grunts in Johannes Roberts’s “Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City,” an inevitable reboot of the long-running, high-grossing franchise based on a video game. This is familiar lore to fans of the two-dozen-plus first-person shooter games and six previous films. But by leaping back to 1998, Roberts’s […]
As he approached for our lunchtime interview last Thursday, Hart was in the midst of a phone call that he couldn’t get out of or wasn’t finished with. Hart, the 42-year-old stand-up and comic actor, keeps a relentlessly busy schedule and he seems to like it that way. In “True Story,” which is scheduled for […]
At the most recent Grammy Awards ceremony in March, the country singer Mickey Guyton performed “Black Like Me,” a song that had made her the first Black woman ever nominated for solo country performance and ultimately changed the course of her career. 31 in Los Angeles, were announced on Tuesday, the Texas-born singer and songwriter […]
The Grogu balloon marks the first “Star Wars” inflatable in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — a thrill for fans of that cosmic franchise. Whether shopping at Hot Topic or attending a comic book convention, those fans have been snapping up Funko Pop figurines since their introduction at San Diego Comic Con in 2010. […]
On Monday, he was exonerated, as a state judge, his defense lawyers and the Onondaga County district attorney agreed that the case against him had been woefully flawed. The attack took place when Ms. Sebold was a freshman at Syracuse University. In her memoir, she writes that Mr. Broadwater and the man next to him […]
And no wonder. Her two Pulitzer Prizes are for works in which the world and its people are trapped in an abusive relationship. In Kate Whoriskey’s brisk and thoroughly satisfying production for Second Stage Theater, we learn that, unlike Oedipus and his mom, people who may have little else nevertheless have choices. In the kitchen […]
Last week, Netflix released its live-action adaptation of “Cowboy Bebop,” a jazzy series about a bunch of luckless bounty hunters on a ship called the Bebop. Spike Spiegel, the lackadaisical big-haired former assassin-turned-bounty hunter who’s the protagonist of the series, is so central that the wrong actor would have doomed the adaptation from the jump. […]
The contenders for the 64th annual Grammy Awards in January were announced on Tuesday. Which is to say, was this actually a twist or was this the most Grammys thing that could have possibly happened? I’m torn, because on one hand, it felt like we were moving away from this. JON CARAMANICA Last year, when […]
The kindest thing I can say about “House of Gucci” — and also the cruelest — is that it should have been an Italian movie. The true story of how the Gucci family lost control of the company that still bears its name — and of how its scion, Maurizio Gucci, lost his life to […]
The ceremony will be the first since the awards made a major change to its nominating process: In late April, the board of the Recording Academy, the governing body of the Grammys, voted to eliminate the use of anonymous expert committees to whittle down the final ballot in dozens of categories, a practice that had […]
He wears an off-white apron whose narrow strap hooks around the neck and attaches with a single button on the left side — the same style of apron he has worn for years as a work and public uniform, a reminder that he is at once artist and artisan, ever on guard against daubs of […]
The price of oil has fallen since late October partly in anticipation that countries would take action to try to tame energy costs. Demand for oil fell precipitously in the early months of the pandemic, so oil-producing nations cut output. The move to tap into the U.S. Mr. Bronze estimated that India would contribute up […]
The coronavirus closures prompted many theaters around the country to experiment with online offerings. Second Stage Theater, a nonprofit that operates a small Broadway house, plans to sell a limited number of real-time, virtual viewings in January for the final 16 performances of “Clyde’s,” a dramedy about a group of ex-cons working at a sandwich […]