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Karabash, Russia, is a desolate place – a fitting description for this city of 10,000 residents set in the Ural Mountains. After all, it has been described as one of the most polluted places on Earth.

Paul Thomas Anderson's dazzling thriller "One Battle After Another" and Ryan Coogler's resonant horror movie "Sinners" found as much love overseas as they did with Oscar voters, topping nominations at the British Film Academy Awards on Tuesday.

A local production supervisor was caught off guard when a friend from the East Coast called him to wish him congratulations early Thursday morning.

"Sinners" has made Oscars history. The 98th Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday and Ryan Coogler's musical horror earned 16 overall nominations, breaking the record for the most nominations for a film previously held by "All about Eve" (1950), "Titanic" (1997) and "La La Land" (2016). "Sinners'" nominations include best picture, directing, original screenplay and individual acting nods for stars Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo.

The schlocky dystopian action thriller “Mercy” touts itself as having been “filmed for IMAX,” but that’s not such a selling point when almost the entire film is a dim close-up of Chris Pratt strapped to a chair. This real-time AI mystery is a mashup of “Judge Dredd” and “Searching,” in which a Los Angeles detective (Pratt) has to prove himself innocent of murder during a 90-minute trial conducted by an artificially intelligent system called Mercy, presided over by an entity known as “Judge Maddox” (Rebecca Ferguson).

Six years ago, Ally Pankiw got her first big TV breakthrough: She directed the first season of the Netflix comedy-drama “Feel Good.”

In numerous interviews over the years, the actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have talked about their relationship.

Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey trademarked ‘Alright, alright, alright,” his popular catchphrase from “Dazed and Confused,” in order to protect against possible AI misuse. 

What started as a small event by and for Spokane’s Jewish community is readying to kick off its 22nd year on Jan. 22, arms open to everyone.

Legendary Korean auteur Park Chan-wook is the ultimate master of tone. No other living filmmaker could so elegantly dance the line between bleak, absurd, devastating and slapstick like he does in his 10th feature film and latest masterpiece, “No Other Choice,” a starkly hilarious satire about what it means to try and survive our current capitalist nightmare.

You may not know the name Seymour Hersh, but you certainly know his work.

Credit the people who make movies for doing what they can to portray journalism in all its shades of black and white.

LOS ANGELES — Marty Supreme has another title under his belt. Four-time nominee Timothée Chalamet bagged his first Golden Globe Award for his critically acclaimed performance in Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” which follows a plucky young New Yorker as he claws (and swindles) his way to table tennis superstardom. Chalamet thanked Safdie, the cast, his parents and his partner — Kylie Jenner, ...

LOS ANGELES — One battle is in the rearview for Teyana Taylor. The multihyphenate entertainer has secured the Golden Globe for supporting actress in a motion picture for her performance as revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills in Paul Thomas Anderson’s black comedy “One Battle After Another.” Taylor beat out Ariana Grande (“Wicked: For Good”), Amy Madigan (“Weapons”), Emily Blunt (“The Smashing ...

NEW YORK – T.K. Carter, known for his iconic role as Nauls in John Carpenter’s horror hit “The Thing,” has died at age 69.

Gerard Butler is the Prince of January. You could print calendars now with the knowledge that the Scottish actor will invariably open the year with some kind of action bombast, ranging from the goofy (last year’s “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera”) to the earnest – this year’s disaster movie sequel “Greenland 2: Migration.” Butler reunites with his “Kandahar,” “Angel Has Fallen” and “Greenland” director Ric Roman Waugh for the film, and much like “Den of Thieves 2,” the film sees our star setting out for the south of France, under, of course, very different circumstances.

Nominations for The Actors arrived Wednesday morning. And if you're thinking, "Actors nominations? Who voted for these awards?" I could go into an exaggerated Abbott and Costello routine or simply remind you that the Screen Actors Guild recently rebranded its annual award ceremony as the Actor Awards or, if you're not into the whole brevity thing, the Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA.

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the 2022 Tom Cruise blockbuster "Top Gun: Maverick" did not infringe a magazine article that inspired the original 1986 "Top Gun" film.