ReviewNEW YORK: It’s often the case that movies based on true stories offer a glimpse of the real-life characters at the end. In “The Mauritanian,” the story...
NEW YORK: George Clooney’s co-stars, friends and collaborators gathered virtually to share anecdotes and praise his contributions as actor, director,...
ReviewNEW YORK: Chadwick Boseman surges onto the screen as fast-talking trumpeter Levee in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” like a man on an electrified tightrope –...
ReviewNEW YORK: Ever since the pandemic darkened theaters earlier this year, sending the entire performing arts world into a catastrophic state of limbo,...
ReviewNEW YORK: The new sci-fi rom-com “Save Yourselves!” is rich in comic timing and -- debuting the same week as the first Trump-Biden presidential debate...
Ask a woman if she’s been called the B-word by a man - perhaps modified by the F-adjective - and chances are she’ll say, "You mean ever, or how many...
ReviewNEW YORK: At one point in “Irresistible,” Jon Stewart’s new political satire, a cable news anchor tosses a question to an absurdly overstuffed panel of...
At her home in suburban Detroit, Jill Warren spent Thursday morning glued to her phone, searching for news about the woman she fiercely believed should be the...
NEW YORK: Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara have been awarded the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize for “consistent service to humanity as...
NEW YORK: At one point in “Birds of Prey,” crime lord Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor), sits down with a tub of popcorn to watch Harley Quinn suffer through a...
NEW YORK: It’s been a good time for World War I movie buffs. A year ago director Peter Jackson applied state-of-the-art technology to century-old war footage...
NEW YORK: There’s apparently enough groundbreaking technology in “Cats” for NASA to send a rocket to unexplored parts of the universe - perhaps to a far-off...
NEW YORK: It’s hard to have huge expectations for a movie called “The Angry Birds Movie 2.” It’s not even a movie based on a smartphone game. It’s a sequel to...
NEW YORK: It happens in even the best kitchens: You bring together top-quality ingredients and a promising recipe, but somehow the end result comes out...
Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a soulful if brooding young man, with a very pleasant singing voice. But when we meet him, the fledgling songwriter and...
Teenage brains. Alcohol. Driver’s licenses. Put them together and what you get, inevitably, are a whole bunch of bad decisions - in real life and in...
NEW YORK: From a tiny bottle of nail polish, a luxury fashion empire was born. Designer Christian Louboutin says he was experimenting in his factory one day...
NEW YORK: When Ted Bundy died in the electric chair 30 years ago in Florida, a witness to the execution - a prosecutor in the case of a 12-year-old girl Bundy...
NEW YORK: Christian Cowan was finding it hard to stand still backstage after his high-energy show Tuesday, practically jumping up and down in place. The...
NEW YORK: When the final model walked down the Carolina Herrera runway in a floor-length, billowing gown that looked like a huge white shirt, it was a playful...
NEW YORK: “Can I get you some Ralph’s Roast?” Immaculately dressed young waiters offered coffee and pastries as soon as you sat down at...
NEW YORK: Blow your nose, and you’ll miss the split-second shot of a younger U.S. President Donald Trump in “Vice,” Adam McKay’s exhaustingly entertaining...
NEW YORK: We’ve learned a lot about refined sugar since “Mary Poppins” debuted in 1964, none of it good. Doctors say it can cause obesity and heart disease,...
And the top pop culture moments of 2018 are ... Wait. WAS there any pop culture this year? Of course there was, but you could be forgiven for forgetting,...
NEW YORK: “I hope he never does one on me,” Donald Trump once said of Michael Moore. It was in 1998, on Roseanne Barr’s syndicated talk show. Trump...