10 Movies to Plug Into After The Matrix Resurrections

That’s a compliment, not a demerit, and several films later, with Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections now out in the world, fans have spent hours upon hours with a fictional reality that packages anime aesthetics, Hong Kong cinema’s wire fu action, and cyberpunk’s high-tech lens on low culture into kick-ass stories about rebellion against authority […]

This ‘Macbeth’ adaptation distills Shakespeare’s tragedy to its furious essence

The best-known lines are still there, of course — “Is this a dagger which I see before me” and all the rest. Coen and his cinematographer, Bruno Delbonnel, evoke the look of older movies with a spectral black-and-white palette and a nearly square frame. At times you might be reminded of Orson Welles’ 1948 Macbeth, […]

Exclusive: Jonathan Frakes helps solve Discovery’s oldest Star Trek mystery

The USS Discovery, stranded far in the future, is boarded by a refugee named Craft . Co-written by Picard co-creator Michael Chabon and directed by longtime Discovery producer Olatunde Osunsanmi, the canonical status of “Calypso” has been a mystery ever since. One of the first things Jonathan Frakes reveals about this pivotal Discovery episode is […]

James Franco breaks silence, admits to sleeping with students from his acting school

After years of silence, Franco discussed his sex addiction and allegations of sexual misconduct in a 2021 interview on The Jess Cagle Show. After years of silence, Franco discussed his sex addiction and allegations of sexual misconduct in a 2021 interview on The Jess Cagle Show. “There were people who were upset with me and […]

‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Almodóvar’s Brutal, Beautiful World

“World-building” usually refers to how the makers of science fiction and fantasy construct their domains, populating them with imaginary creatures and allegorical meanings. It’s a version of Spain , informed by that country’s aesthetic and literary traditions, a legacy that encompasses the perverse whimsy of Surrealism and the openhearted pathos of flamenco. At first, the […]

Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87

Joan Didion, whose mordant dispatches on California culture and the chaos of the 1960s established her as a leading exponent of the New Journalism, and whose novels “Play It as It Lays” and “The Book of Common Prayer” proclaimed the arrival of a tough, terse, distinctive voice in American fiction, died on Thursday at her […]

Carrie-Anne Moss on the ‘Matrix’ Movies and Playing an Action Hero in Her 50s

Taking her place alongside Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley and Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, Moss played Trinity in “The Matrix” , defying gravity with a martial-arts ballet. 22, “Resurrections” required the now-54-year-old Moss to undergo weeks of intensive training before embarking on a demanding shoot that took the cast to San Francisco and Germany, […]

More ‘Nutcracker’ Performances Canceled as Virus Halts Holiday Shows

New York City Ballet canceled its performances of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” through Dec. As the production, one of City Ballet’s most popular, was called off at Lincoln Center, plans to fill Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening with the “Hallelujah” chorus were canceled when Musica Sacra postponed a performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” citing the virus. […]