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For months, one question has plagued moviegoers: “who is the real Agent Argylle?” It’s a query posed by Samuel L. Jackson in the ubiquitous trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s spy action-comedy “Argylle,” though there are more pressing questions that the trailer presents, like, “who thought a flat-top on Henry Cavill was a good idea?” and, “why are we spelling argyle with two Ls?”

When all this is over, when Lily Gladstone no longer has to discuss and dissect and get all dressed up to celebrate "Killers of the Flower Moon," the movie that first came into her life nearly five years ago and has now propelled her into history as the first Native American to earn an Oscar nomination for lead actress, she's going to head back home to her family in suburban Seattle. Gladstone moved in with her parents a few years ago to help take care of her special-needs uncle and her grandmother, who died last summer after battling dementia. Her immediate plan: Pay off her parents' mortgage this year. Next step: Carve out a space for herself nearby.

As he took in a recent screening of a new documentary on the making of “We Are the World,” Lionel Richie found himself — even now, four decades after the all-star charity single was released — gripped by a creeping sense of anxiety.

In Rachel Lambert’s dreamlike indie “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” our heroine’s life is on mute: visually, sonically and emotionally. An office worker in a coastal Oregon town, Fran (Daisy Ridley) is the silent center of this story. 

Whatever you might think about Johnny Depp and/or Timothée Chalamet, both of whom have portrayed Roald Dahl’s character Willy Wonka, neither compares with the late Gene Wilder.

The Spokane Jewish Film Festival turns 20 and celebrates with new and vintage films.

With Tuesday's historic best actress Academy Award nomination, Lily Gladstone is one step closer to notching a significant win on Oscars night for her performance in Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon."

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts unveiled its 2024 nominations on Thursday, giving a major awards-season boost to director Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" while delivering a setback to "Barbie," the other half of last summer's "Barbenheimer" juggernaut.

No matter what form of media we choose to follow, we’re subjected ad nauseum to stories of disaster. War, genocide, murder, natural catastrophes and fatal accidents all tend to lead the news.

Set on the International Space Station, the movie “I.S.S.” is a modest but satisfyingly suspenseful thriller whose central conflict between the six members of the station’s half-American, half-Russian crew is precipitated by a decidedly earthbound crisis.

It was a whirlwind long awards weekend, as the Critics Choice Awards and the Emmys chased the Golden Globes last weekend. And Oscar nomination voting closed Jan. 16, so there will be a lull in awards campaigning — at least for a week — until the nominations come out on Jan. 23. 

Many jokes from the 2004 version of "Mean Girls" now feel outdated, but at least one joke from the 2024 adaptation of the movie — based on a musical based on a movie based on a book — didn't land right with the star of the original film. Lindsay Lohan, who played Cady Heron in the original "Mean Girls," took offense with a quip that referenced a "fire crotch." The line in question happens when ...

Disney’s “Moana” is getting the live-action treatment, and Auli’i Cravalho, who voiced the animated film’s title character, says it’s important to her not to reprise the role.

The Banff Film Festival is back in Spokane for a 38th year with an array of inspiring short adventure films.

Parents with problem children often feel hopeless, frustrated and desperate to find something – anything – that can provide them with help.

For a certain type of action movie fan, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: January pulp trashterpiece season. Last year, that slot was occupied by the lean, mean flying machine “Plane,” starring Gerard Butler; this year, it’s the off-brand “John Wick” ripoff “The Beekeeper,” starring Jason Statham and directed by David Ayer.

With "The Book of Clarence," British musician-turned-filmmaker Jeymes Samuel does for the biblical sword-and-sandal epic what he did for westerns in his feature debut, "The Harder They Fall," a tongue-in-cheeky cowboy action film featuring a predominantly Black cast and a story loosely based on historical figures. The new film is a shot in the arm for a moribund genre. But as with Samuel's 2021 Netflix release, which turned the tropes of the oater on their heads, the results are entertaining, sometimes riotously so, yet also decidedly mixed.

"Mean Girls" returns to the big screen Friday, this time with songs like "Meet the Plastics," and "Revenge Party." The new movie is based on the 2017 musical, which itself is based on the 2004 film.

It’s been a long, strange trip for the smart, real-world ideas behind Rosalind Wiseman’s “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” the 2002 parenting book about how to deal with difficult teenage daughters that is best known as the inspiration for the hit 2004 movie “Mean Girls.” Hidden inside a comedy of cultural anthropology that was both silly and sardonic, courtesy of screenwriter Tina Fey, they’ve survived, more or less intact, through a lackluster 2011 sequel that Fey had nothing to do with and that nobody remembers: “Mean Girls 2,” on the ABC Family channel.