Movies

The spring movie calendar is cluttered with numbers: "Book Club II" (May 12); "Creed III" (March 3) "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" (May 5); "John Wick Chapter 4" (March 24); "Scream VI" (March 10); "Fast X" (May 19). Even several of the titles without numbers have subtitles, indicating they're part of a franchise: "Shazam! Fury of the Gods" (March 17); "Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" (March 31); "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" (June 9).

“La La Land” is going to be bicoastal. The Academy Award-winning, L.A.-set film from 2016, which starred Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, is being reimagined for the Broadway stage. 

New look at war, even if it's the same old story

It’s hard to believe there was a time in which naysayers scoffed at animation being able to hold attention for more than an hour. Animated features and shorts, after all, are ubiquitous.

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If first impressions are indeed significant, the 24th annual Spokane International Film Festival is well worth checking out.

A serviceable mash-up of sitcom and sports flick, "80 for Brady" should please fans of Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field and/or Tom Brady. Everybody else might want to call a timeout.

It seems that M. Night Shyamalan has the end of days on his mind. A couple of years ago, he pondered the quandary of aging in “Old,” based on the graphic novel “Sandcastle,” by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. In his latest film, he turns toward the apocalypse, or at least the idea of it, in “Knock at the Cabin,” adapted from Paul Tremblay’s 2018 horror novel “The Cabin at the End of the World.”

Friday's openings: Brady-mania and talking animals

Director Todd Field has gone through great pains, including on a podcast for the Los Angeles Times, to explain his great effort to get the world of classical music right in “Tár.” A wealth of knowing chatter, gossip and the goings-on in the orchestra is meant to add to the film’s realism. Cunning clues abound, as in a conductor in the film, Andris Davis, being named after the real-life Boston ...

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The Sundance Fim Festival is a mad dash of snow-covered sidewalks, last minute ticketing and buzzy theaters packed with hyped-up moviegoers, a rite of passage for any true film lover.