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As "Avatar: Fire and Ash" headed to the big screen this month, theater owners held their breath. In an uneven year that saw two billion-dollar hits and a viral "chicken jockey" craze, but also a disastrous first quarter and a nearly 30-year-low at the October box office, the end of December was the last chance for theaters to make up ground.

No matter where you might live – house, apartment, whatever – you’ve likely had problems with a neighbor.

There’s an argument to be made that Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), the protagonist of Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” could be the father of Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), the protagonist of Josh and Benny Safdie’s 2019 cinematic panic attack “Uncut Gems.” Marty and Howard are versions of the same character: Jewish New York City hustlers addicted to risky business; inveterate gamblers who believe that just one more bet is going to pay off.

At 71, James Cameron still makes movies like he’s got something to prove — despite his many accolades, awards and box-office successes. But that fighting spirit is what makes Cameron’s films feel so alive and so urgent, a spirit that he has infused into his epic sci-fi space Western saga, “Avatar.” For almost three decades, he has been ensconced on the planet Pandora, dedicating himself to ...

If you’ve seen Rian Johnson’s first two “Knives Out” movies – 2019’s “Knives Out” and 2022’s “Glass Onion” – you might think you know what to expect from Johnson’s new addition to the franchise, “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.”

Rob Reiner was born into the lineage of comedy thanks to his father, television pioneer Carl Reiner, and he first gained recognition as an actor, including his Emmy-winning role on “All in the Family.” And while there is certainly a streak of humor through almost all of his films, what marks Reiner’s work as a director is his astonishing versatility, able to switch styles from one project to the next with remarkable ease.

Dick Van Dyke is showing no signs of stopping as he celebrates his milestone 100th birthday.

NEW YORK — Peter Greene, an actor noted for playing the character Zed in the classic film “Pulp Fiction,” was found dead inside his Lower East Side apartment on Friday, police and a neighbor told the Daily News. Greene’s longtime manager, Gregg Edward, said the actor’s family had been notified of his death. The neighbor, who asked that his name be withheld, said he found Greene, 60, in his ...

Even with inflation, endless air travel complaints and the recent flight cancellations caused by the government shutdown, millions of Americans, including me, will begin their holiday celebrations on a plane. And while some are already making their packing lists, I am more concerned about what I should watch. In addition to getting you where you want to go, those hours spent in uncomfortable seats — first at the gate and then on board — are a guilt-free opportunity to catch up on or revisit great shows and films.

We all have regrets. They might involve decisions made and not made, paths taken that we should have avoided, relationships that didn’t fizzle out so much as fervently implode.

Once again, it’s a great week to be a cinephile at home, as some of the best films of the year land on streaming services this week.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Get ready, ya filthy animals, because “Home Alone” is 35 this year and Disney+ is celebrating from the heart of Hollywood to pizza parlors and airports and television sets across the country. The biggest, quite literally, will soon arrive at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles in the form of a ginormous gingerbread recreation of the McCallister family home. It’s ...

Nominations for the 83rd annual Golden Globes arrived before dawn on Monday and in a crowded awards season full of early feints and false starts, one film came away having clearly won the morning's skirmish: "One Battle After Another."

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the Japanese American actor whose powerful glare and graceful menace made him a fixture of action films for more than four decades, has died at 75.

Dead or alive, he's coming to Eastern Market. OK, technically, the approximately 11-foot-tall bronze sculpture of RoboCop is neither dead nor alive. And technically, it's not coming to Detroit's Eastern Market area — it's already there.

Once again, it’s time to festoon ourselves with garlands, fire up the twinkle lights and examine the very special cinematic universe that is Netflix Christmas movies.

“Are you ready? Then we shall begin.” This narration, over an image of three moons hanging in the sky, begins Julia Jackman’s “100 Nights of Hero,” which she adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s 2016 graphic novel, and directed. It signifies that we are in for a level of heightened, self-reflective fantasy storytelling, and in fact, the revolutionary power of storytelling itself is the beating heart of this film.

Walt Disney Co.’s Zootopia 2 pulled in $272 million to claim China’s second-biggest opening ever for a foreign film, boosting the US studio in a key market.

Judi Dench is sharing an update on her life with a degenerative eye condition.