This is one of those all-or-nothing comedies that has no boundaries or shame. It is intentionally dopey and looking to push all possible buttons. Nothing is off the table -- race, sexual orientation, police brutality
The critically lauded series proved to be an increasingly rare TV bird: It gently pushed at social boundaries while remaining a treat that kids and parents could enjoy together, even as the explosion of screens and edgier fare drove solitary viewing
Film festivals give not only upcoming films an opportunity to make a splash but exhibit many smaller movies seeking distribution deals. The largest festivals canceled by the pandemic -- Cannes, SXSW, Tribeca -- have taken a different approach
Individual films will choose whether to opt in to the 10-day “SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection,” which will be free to viewers with or without an Amazon Prime membership in the U.S.
While residents asked to stay at home represent a huge captive market for television, the pandemic has forced Middle East production companies to shut down...
With no sports to air, the 10-part documentary series will air next month on Netflix
Redistricting can quarantine the votes of one party or one demographic, potentially muting the political power of a larger portion of the public and...
Mamoudou Athie stars as Elijah, a young man in Memphis who doesn’t want to take over his father’s barbecue restaurant. He wants to be a sommelier
'I spent all day yesterday clearing out cupboards,' said comic Jojo Sutherland. 'I found right at the back of the linen cupboard a present I'd brought the...
There will be seven-day-a-week dollops of news, sports and weather, gathered under the umbrella name Daily Essentials, all adding up to a mind-boggling...
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was ordered immediately freed from a Manhattan federal lockup four months early Thursday by a judge who cited his asthma and the...
The New Japan Philharmonic is the latest prestigious orchestra to go virtual, following the French National Orchestra (playing Ravel’s “Bolero”), the...
Faithfull, 73, was one of the icons of the 1960s and was catapulted to fame at the age of just 17 singing “As Tears Go By,” written by Mick Jagger and Keith...
Bosworth played a nun opposite of Audrey Hepburn in the 1959 classic “The Nun’s Story” and penned several celebrity biographies, including famed photographer...
In a world turned upside down by disease, TV viewership is growing. It’s a rare bit of good news for an industry that has steadily shrunk, and its executives...
Just in time for lockdown, Beirut DC launches latest online initiative to bring Arab cinema home
This documentary focuses on an idyllic summer camp for American kids and teens with disabilities in the early ’70s, which turned out to be a breeding ground...
Tuesday's announcement made for a strange anomaly: prizes handed out, virtually, for a film festival that never happened
Debuting Monday on Acorn TV streaming service, Essie Davis’ amateur sleuth plunges into a case that encompasses ancient curses and Middle East turmoil
In an effort to support the broader film and television industry, $15 million of the Netflix fund will be distributed to “third parties and nonprofits...
Streaming now at PBS, the three-part 'Niall Ferguson’s Networld' shatters the cool facade of Silicon Valley, placing the internet in a long history of...
Julian Fellowes has created and co-written “The English Game,” the six-part Netflix series dramatising the origins of the gentleman’s game that became the...
As financial hardship builds for people in lockstep with the crisis response, the services have yet to cut fees for new or current subscribers
YouTube will sacrifice streaming quality in the EU to help avert internet gridlock as tens of millions of Europeans, confined by the coronavirus outbreak,...
France's Cannes Film Festival, arguably the world’s most prestigious film festival and cinema’s largest annual gathering, has postponed its 73rd edition due...
The 79-year-old filmmaker has written his first work of fiction, the lurid and pulpy “Are Snakes Necessary?” a crime novel he penned with his partner, Susan...
'In some respects, using the past and trying to reference the past as allegory is your best shot for explaining what has happened to the American body politic...
There’s binge-watching galore, of course, and devotees of opera and art are being treated to special live streams and virtual tours. Museums have joined a...
Most of Europe’s cinemas have shuttered in recent days, along with closures in China, India, Lebanon and Kuwait. Those closures have already slashed...
With film festivals like SXSW and Tribeca scrapped, major titles have been shorn of the publicity of opening night reviews and galas, and left hundreds of...
Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir reflects upon her work in Haifa and in Bethlehem
“The Hunt” was pulled from release after a series of deadly shootings and wave of right-wing criticism, including from Trump, who called it a movie “made in...
'When you were as focused as Curie was, you don’t have the time to be touchy feely ... and people accept that [single-mindedness] much less from a...
Mohammad Rasoulof’s Golden Bear-winning feature balances fine cinema and critical politics
Friendship is what this simple, radiant Old West fable, is about