‘Pedro Páramo,’ ‘Let’s Start a Cult’ and More Streaming Gems
‘Pedro Páramo,’ ‘Let’s Start a Cult’ and More Streaming Gems
With ‘We Beat the Dream Team,’ Grant Hill Can Finally Gloat
Grant Hill is a seven-time N.B.A. All-Star, Chris Webber a five-timer and Penny Hardaway a four-timer. Allan Houston was selected twice, Jamal Mashburn once. But back in 1992, they were just a bunch of college students playing a scrimmage against the U.S. men’s national basketball team, otherwise known as the Dream Team, which included Michael … Read more
Watching ‘Shoah’ in Berlin, 80 Years After Auschwitz
On the first Sunday of this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” (1985) — a nine-and-a-half-hour documentary about the Holocaust — screened to a nearly full house in the auditorium of the city’s Academy of Arts. Tricia Tuttle, the festival’s new director, spoke before the film, along with a curator from Berlin’s Jewish … Read more
Why Everyone Is Still Talking About ‘Paddington 2’
“Paddington 2 is the greatest film ever made,” one user posted on X in 2022. This tweet was not ironic. In the seven years since its release in January 2018, the film about a marmalade-loving bear’s quest to find the perfect gift for his beloved aunt has become an internet phenomenon, spawning memes, think pieces … Read more
South Korean Actress Kim Sae-ron Is Found Dead
South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron, a former child star whose promising career suffered a setback in recent years after a drunk-driving incident, was found dead in her home on Sunday afternoon, police said. Ms. Kim, who was 24, was discovered by a friend who had visited her house, according to the Seongdong Police Station in … Read more
Oscars Rewind: How ‘American Beauty’ Lost Its Luster
It was March 2000, and everything was coming up roses for “American Beauty.” There were the box office receipts (more than $350 million worldwide, not adjusted for inflation, against a budget of roughly $15 million, according to the data site Box Office Mojo). The rave reviews (“a hell of a picture,” Kenneth Turan wrote in … Read more
Tramell Tillman of ‘Severance’ Gives Himself a Performance Review
This interview contains spoilers from Season 2, Episode 5 of “Severance.” It’s hard to imagine Seth Milchick being late for anything. The manager of the “severed” floor in Apple TV+’s darkly satirical workplace thriller “Severance,” Mr. Milchick, as he is mostly known, is the consummate company man. He is a silky-voiced, coldhearted enforcer and is … Read more
Chiwetel Ejiofor on the Shakespeare Play That ‘Revolutionized’ Him
Chiwetel Ejiofor went to see “Bridget Jones’s Diary” back in 2001, fully expecting to be bombarded by female energy. Instead, he left the theater stunned by how much he related to her, he said: “feeling all of that chaos and a little bit out of step with the world but somehow with optimism and hopefulness … Read more
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
‘Turn Me On’ Rent or buy it on most major platforms. In Michael Tyburski’s gentle but Orwellian film, people greet one another by asking, “Are you content?” The usual answer is, “Quite content.” Neither part of the exchange involves any emotion, only polite detachment. That’s how the powers-that-be like it: All citizens must take a … Read more