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‘Scream’ (2022) (April 11) Stream it here. Resurrecting the decade-dormant “Scream” franchise without the guiding hand of the late Wes Craven was a questionable choice, and this 2022 installment from the “Ready or Not” directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, doesn’t match the ingenuity or chills of Craven’s earlier installments. But it is still an … Read more

‘Something Is About to Happen’ Rent or buy it on most major platforms. For most of its two-hour run time, Antonio Méndez Esparza’s slow-burn thriller doesn’t feel like a horror movie. There’s no gore, evil spirits or gorgons. Yet, as it follows a middle-aged woman who loses her grip on reality, the film chillingly embodies … Read more

It took just a few minutes into this 2023 documentary for me to be dumbfounded that I had never heard about this chapter in American history, when an entire school bus of children and their driver, 27 people in total, disappeared mid-route on a hot summer day in 1976 in the small California town of … Read more

Almost two decades ago a pair of fresh-faced British sketch comedians armed with a good idea and an able director with a cache of film stock made a charming short film called “The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island.” The 25-minute outing won a prize at the 2008 Edinburgh Film Festival, was nominated … Read more

What is art? Everyone has a different definition, not just at this moment in history but across eras. Art is a pretty picture. Art is what’s in a museum. Art is what makes us human. Art is something to sell, or buy, or make, or make fun of. Art is everything, or nothing at all. … Read more

Scott Rudin, the powerful producer who was exiled from Broadway and Hollywood four years ago after allegations of bullying led to widespread denunciations and even protesters in the streets, has been quietly preparing to return to show business. After what he called “a decent amount of therapy,” apologies to many people and a period of … Read more

Sofia Carson had just come back to earth. On a recent March morning, the actress-singer awoke at 3 to take a sunrise hot-air balloon ride over the rolling hills of Temecula, Calif. The adventure had been arranged by Netflix as a promotional stunt for the streamer’s new film, “The Life List,” in which Carson stars … Read more

‘Death of a Unicorn’ On the drive to his boss’s mansion, Elliot (Paul Rudd) hits and nearly kills a unicorn, leading to madcap misadventures in this horror-comedy directed by Alex Scharfman. From our review: There’s no real spoiling “Death of a Unicorn,” an unabashedly nonsensical movie that doesn’t take anything too seriously, itself included. There … Read more

Andy Kaufman became one of the most influential comedians ever in a brief amount of time — really only a decade, from his first national television appearance to his death from lung cancer in 1984 at 35. In between, his comic stunts blurred the lines of reality and fiction and found a variety of ways … Read more