Sundance 2025: Is this the festival’s winter of discontent?
PARK CITY, Utah — It’s been nine months since the Sundance Film Festival announced it was exploring the potential of a new home beginning in 2027.…
All the 2025 best picture Oscar nominees, ranked from worst to best
Timothée Chalamet, left, and Austin Butler in the movie “Dune: Part Two.” (Niko Tavernise / Warner Bros.) Sixty years ago, when Frank Herbert published his…
Sundance: Wildfire recovery tale ‘Rebuilding’ stirs raw emotions
PARK CITY, Utah — For those of us fortunate enough to avoid evacuation, much less life-altering destruction, during the recent L.A. wildfires, the past weeks have…
‘Watson’ star Morris Chestnut on racist trolls, Hollywood longevity
For the record, Morris Chestnut is not a real doctor. He just plays one on TV.To be precise, Chestnut has played multiple physicians in the…
Sundance: Inside ‘The Stringer’s’ allegations about ‘Napalm Girl’
PARK CITY, Utah — Saturday night in Park City saw the world premiere of “The Stringer,” which calls into question the origins of one of the…
In defense of ‘Squid Game’ Season 2
Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who thought “Squid Game’s” second season deserved as much attention as its first. Well, maybe not as…
Oscar best picture race is a free-for-all
Bob Dylan wasn’t being literal when he sang “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” but, looking at the weekend weather forecast, and with the Dylan-goes-electric biopic…
‘Star Trek: Area 31’ review: A diverting but frustrating first TV film
The contortions through which a series goes before it reaches the air — the creative decisions and studio demands, the castings and recasting, the rewrites…
Sundance 2025: 7 Latino movies to watch at the film festival
From first-time features by emerging U.S.-based talent to a star-studded production to a new look at one of the most beloved Mexican American music artists…
8 movies to look out for at the Sundance Film Festival
How is this for whiplash? Fresh off a hot batch of Oscar nominations, we now turn to the week’s other big news, a new edition…
At Night Temple, weary L.A. film composers find refuge in house shows
The road up to Night Temple was dark and steep enough to take your breath away. But a few days before Christmas, a string quartet…
‘La Bamba’ is getting a new behind-the-scenes photo book
For the first time in nearly 40 years, never-before-seen images documenting the making of “La Bamba” will be released, giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at…
Benedict Cumberbatch reveals ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ spoilers
Doctor Strange is going on hiatus in the next Marvel sequel, “Avengers: Doomsday,” according to a spoiler-happy, secret-spilling Benedict Cumberbatch. “Is that a spoiler?” the…
Oscar nominations 2025: Predictions in top categories
Oscar nominations will (probably) arrive Thursday morning, six days after they were originally scheduled to be announced, though with all that has happened to our…
11 features and documentaries about the drug war by Mexican directors
Whether you disliked or enjoyed “Emilia Pérez,” the French-produced, Netflix-distributed musical about a Mexican cartel boss who undergoes gender transition, the conversation around it should…
David Lynch was a painter before he brought his art to film
David Lynch lived and worked beyond all definition. He was best known as a filmmaker — using his lens to unearth the tawdry, decayed and…
‘Am I Racist?’: Inside the rise of the conservative movie biz
To say “Am I Racist?” wasn’t designed to win over Hollywood would be putting it very mildly. Produced by the Daily Wire and fronted by…
DeRon Horton of ‘Dear White People’ says he was shot in arm
“Dear White People” star DeRon Horton is recovering from a gunshot wound to his arm after being shot last month.The 32-year-old actor, who played geeky…
4 movies and TV shows to lift your spirits this weekend
Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who could do with some lighter, brighter viewing this weekend. After nearly two weeks of bruising news…
‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ review: Goodnight, sweet Player One
To be an artist, or not to be? That is the question of “Grand Theft Hamlet,” a guns-blazingly funny documentary about two out-of-work British actors…