Movies

You know millennial nostalgia has reached a dangerous peak when there’s a new “Now You See Me” film in theaters. The last time we encountered the merry band of Robin Hood prankster magicians known as the Horsemen, it was the Obama era, when “Now You See Me 2,” the sequel to the hit 2013 film, appeared in theaters in the summer of 2016. Were we ever so young? Back then, the Horsemen, played by ...

Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay’s long-awaited fifth feature, “Die My Love” poses a provocative question under the guise of a mental health crisis: can a wild woman be domesticated? Immediately, she hints at her answer, but the audience doesn’t know it yet. We watch a young couple, Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jackson (Robert Pattinson) move into a new home and start to play house. What happens after that is so wild and unpredictable that we almost forget that where it ends up is where it was always going.

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are returning to the scene of the scare as they gear up for a fourth “Mummy” film.

Locals may have a hometown favorite to root for at the Academy Awards come March.

Woody Allen may still be persona non grata in Hollywood, but the controversial Oscar winner has secured regional funding to set his next film in Madrid.

In her book “The Star Machine,” film historian Jeanine Basinger writes about the machine which turned “ordinary men and women into the gods and goddesses known as movie stars” in the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s.

Polish director Jan Komasa might be best known in the United States for his 2019 Oscar-nominated film, “Corpus Christi,” but his biggest box office success was in Poland, for his 2014 film “Warsaw 44,” about the Warsaw Uprising, the bloody effort by the Polish resistance to expel the occupying German army from Warsaw toward the end of World War II. Komasa knows authoritarianism, in its most ...

Guillermo del Toro isn’t the only filmmaker with a take on Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein’s monster tale this Halloween season. Enter “Stitch Head,” an animated film from British animation studio Aniventure, written and directed by Steve Hudson, adapted from the Guy Bass graphic novel. Del Toro’s “Frankenstein” may be the most faithful and frightening adaptation of Shelley’s book, but ...

The Academy Award-winning director is selling seven watches from his personal collection, including his custom F.P. Journe FFC Prototype, estimated to sell for more than $1 million, according to a statement from Phillips, the New York City-based auction house. Phillips will hold the auction on Dec. 6 and 7.

PHILADELPHIA — After capturing hundreds of hours of footage, over a decade, for his new docuseries "The American Revolution," filmmaker Ken Burns knew the epic story had to begin with Benjamin Franklin. Burns was deeply familiar with the Founding Father from his 2022 PBS documentary, Benjamin Franklin, which helped inform aspects of his latest project, especially the introduction. Burns and ...

Johnny Depp appears set to return to the mainstream as Ebenezer Scrooge in Paramount Pictures’ adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” helmed by horror movie director Ti West. The 62-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean” star — whose career suffered for years in the wake of abuse allegations leveled by ex-wife Amber Heard — is said to be in final talks to star in “Ebenezer: A ...

Netflix said Thursday that the final episode of its hit series "Stranger Things" will be shown in select movie theaters and released on Netflix at the same time on New Year's Eve. The move marks the latest effort by the streaming giant to experiment with theatrical releases of its popular titles. The two-hour episode will cap the end to the long-running sci-fi horror series that first streamed ...

Everybody is frightened of something. Maybe it’s clowns or zombies, enclosed spaces or stern-faced mothers-in-law.

There is nothing like singing along at the top of our lungs with your fellow Pumpkin King devotees at the Garland Theater to ring in Halloween.

According to Australian actress and singer Nell Cambell, you are never too young to see “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” for the first time.

Imagine a nuclear warhead is hurtling straight toward us, with only 18 minutes to respond before a major city is obliterated. That’s the stomach-churning premise of “A House of Dynamite” (streaming Oct. 24 on Netflix), a gravely distressing new thriller that realistically envisions how the U.S. government might react to an incoming missile.

 A new "Jumanji" movie is among 52 film projects that were awarded production incentives for shooting in the Golden State, the California Film Commission said Tuesday.