Movies

Walt Disney Co.’s new film, Deadpool & Wolverine, opened at No. 1 in countries across the globe this past weekend, but not in China.

The last we saw Deadpool, the motor-mouthed anti-superhero, it was an entire pandemic and presidency ago. It’s been six years since the “merc with a mouth” was on the big screen in “Deadpool 2” in 2018, and since then, there’ve been corporate mergers and acquisitions that left star Ryan Reynolds’ signature character adrift with questions about his future. What was Disney, of all studios, going to do with this hyperviolent rascal who only works blue?

The relationship between suffering and the creation of art has inspired many a movie, from biographies of Michelangelo to that of singers such as Amy Winehouse.

“Twisters” ripped up the box office field this weekend, churning out about $80.5 million in domestic ticket sales in its inaugural weekend, according to market research firm Comscore.

Tornadoes have been a subject of film fascination since “The Wizard of Oz” in 1939, but Dutch filmmaker Jan de Bont helped to solidify the appeal of the cinematic cyclone with his 1996 summer blockbuster “Twister,” about a group of adrenaline junkie storm chasers. A new installment, “Twisters,” arrives 28 years after de Bont’s film, chasing away all those “Sharknados” that have cluttered up the tornado movie subgenre, and reminding us what made “Twister” so appealing to begin with: it wasn’t necessarily the airborne fauna, but rather, the human dramas that play out as tornadoes roam across the landscape.

LOS ANGELES — "Inside Out 2" brought anxiety, embarrassment, envy and ennui to the screen. It's no wonder the animated sequel proved to be an embarrassment of riches at the box office. The film, which came nine years after the original, returned audiences to the mind of Riley. Now 13, Riley, along with new and old emotions alike, stole the hearts of theatergoers worldwide. A slow start to the ...

Faye Dunaway took risks, racking up three best actress Oscar nominations (and one win) for playing a string of problematic women who dared the audience to have their backs. In turn, Dunaway herself was equally admired and feared, and she rarely felt the public’s warm embrace. So it’s understandable that after decades of polarizing press, the now-83-year-old feels safe revealing herself only to Laurent Bouzereau’s friendly and defanged documentary “Faye” - a far gentler portrait of a difficult woman than everything else on her résumé.

LOS ANGELES — Shrek is coming back to the big screen — really, really. DreamWorks Animation announced Tuesday that a fifth installment in the "Shrek" franchise would arrive in theaters next summer, just in time for the 25th anniversary of the first "Shrek" film. 

All romantic comedies, especially the great ones, follow the same basic template: They feature explicit plot conceits and rhythms.

Miranda Priestly fans rejoice! An anticipated sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada” is reportedly in development.

Oz Perkins’ eerie, occultist serial killer horror thriller “Longlegs” opens with a psyche-rattling sequence, barely a minute or two long, in which he crafts a chilling sense of shock, awe and confounding humor simply through shot composition, editing and performance. It unsettles the viewer on a bone-deep level, the tension then bursting like a bubble on a bravura music cue.

A film like “Sing Sing” is a rare, precious thing. An artifact crafted with the utmost care, this is a cinematic work of unique empathy, a slice of hand-turned humanity, hewn from the heart, with rigorous attention paid to the process itself.

“Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” is the cinematic equivalent of trying on your prom suit from 1984. Maybe it still fits, but not in the places it used to, and if you try to moonwalk, you’ll probably get a hernia.

Say hello to Maxine Minx (Mia Goth), the (anti)heroine of Ti West’s “MaXXXine,” the third installment in his hastily dispatched “X” trilogy. Last we saw Maxine, she was beating a quick retreat away from a Texas porn star massacre, leaving a trail of bloody carnage in her wake. It’s now six years later, in 1985 Los Angeles, and Maxine, an industrious porn starlet and peep show performer, is determined to transcend her trashy, traumatic origins to become a capital-S Star of the silver screen, no matter what it takes.

The experience of watching “Despicable Me 4” is a Kafkaesque nightmare, and not only because one of the main characters turns himself into a roach. The film is an interminable 95 minutes of circular, intertwining, seemingly never-ending storylines rendered with such audio-visual cacophony that it dissolves into an indiscernible din. This fourth (or is it sixth?) installment of the inexplicably popular animated franchise featuring those dreaded Minions has all the charm of an ocular migraine, but small children did rush to dance in front of the screen during the end credits, so what do I know?

Kevin Costner's Western gamble "Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1" got off to a soft start at the box office, bringing in just $800,000 from more than 3,000 locations Thursday, according to studio estimates.

Emma Roberts believes the public has an oversimplified view of nepo babies. It seems that Hollywood ancestry is a two-sided coin for the "Scream Queens" actor, who is the daughter of Academy Award-nominee Eric Roberts and the niece of Academy Award-winner Julia Roberts.

“What are we even talking about when we talk about mothers?” The question, posed by Regina (Sophie Okonedo) in the midst of a drug-hazy cuddle puddle, is the central idea that animates Annie Baker’s verdant, sun-dappled debut feature “Janet Planet.” For our heroine, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler, in her first film role), it is the East (1991 Northampton, Massachusetts to be exact) and Janet (Julianne Nicholson) is the sun. Lacy’s entire galaxy orbits around her mom, whose gravitational pull draws in a variety of suitors, lovers and friends, all impeding on Lacy’s time and attention from her mother.

One of the most iconic images of women’s sports came in 1999 when Brandi Chastain, then fullback for the U.S. women’s soccer team, celebrated after scoring the penalty kick that won her team its second FIFA World Cup championship.