Monday, Jun. 13, 2022

Many major companies have chosen to stay quiet on the abortion debate, but Yelp and its CEO Jeremy Stoppelman have chosen a different path.

The San Francisco-based online reviews site is among the handful of companies covering travel costs for employees and their dependents who must...

Friday, Jun. 10, 2022

Questions about the dangers of human tampering with nature have been in the DNA of the "Jurassic Park" films from the start, but they've been given a workout in the "Jurassic World" trilogy.

Under the stewardship of filmmaker Colin Trevorrow, who directed "Jurassic World" and the new "...

Friday, Jun. 10, 2022

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a two-time Best Short Subject Documentary Oscar winner, makes her directorial debut in narrative live-action fiction with two episodes of Ms. Marvel, a much anticipated series from Marvel Studios which launched this week on Disney+. 

A journalist, filmmaker...

Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2022

With London's stages closed for much of the pandemic, Mark Rylance — one of the theater's most soulful actors and a leading interpreter of Shakespeare — made six films.

They span a wide gamut. A tech billionaire in Adam McKay's apocalypse satire "Don't Look Up." Satan in Terrence Malick's...

Tuesday, May. 31, 2022

David Cronenberg is sitting on a balcony when a squawking seagull flies overhead.

"Full of plastic, that bird," Cronenberg says, smiling.

The 79-year-old Canadian auteur has long been fascinated by what's in our bodies and what we put in them. His latest film, "Crimes of the Future...

Thursday, May. 26, 2022

It's the day before Baz Luhrmann is to unveil "Elvis" at the Cannes Film Festival, and it goes without saying that the director — one of cinema's most maximalist moviemakers — is ready to put on a show.

"I've been ready to put on a show since I was born," Luhrmann says in a hotel looking...

Thursday, May. 26, 2022

In David Cronenberg's "Crimes of the Future," in which an artist played by Viggo Mortensen has organs and tumors plucked from his body in performance art excavations, Kristen Stewart plays a timid bureaucrat swiftly turned passionate devotee.

In Cronenberg's film, a Cannes Film Festival...

Saturday, May. 21, 2022

Most in the film industry thought Ethan Coen was done with making movies. Ethan did, too.

But on Sunday, Coen will premiere his first documentary, "Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind," at the Cannes Film Festival, a movie that was unknown until last month's festival lineup announcement. The...

Saturday, May. 21, 2022

When the Cannes Film Festival audience stood to applaud James Gray's richly observed autobiographical drama "Armageddon Time," about the director's own 1980s childhood in Queens, Gray's voice quivered as he addressed the crowd.

"It's my story, in a way," said Gray. "And you guys shared it...

Saturday, May. 7, 2022

For more than 20 years, acclaimed Argentine filmmaker Victoria Alonso has helped steer Marvel's cinematic juggernaut to ever-growing heights of success. With this week's release of the "Doctor Strange" sequel, she is poised for another hit, and will fulfill a dream of debuting a superhero she's...

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