Movies

This year, the summer movie season begins with a walk down the runway. "The Devil Wears Prada 2" opens Friday, kicking off four months of fun in the sun at the movies. The May 1 weekend is oftentimes reserved for a superhero tentpole, but this year, Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly is the one welcoming audiences into summer. 

LOS ANGELES – “Michael” is a megahit.

After breaking big as a teenager with Disney’s “The Princess Diaries,” Anne Hathaway threaded a Hollywood needle. There were box office smashes (“The Devil Wears Prada”), awards fare (“Les Misérables,” for which she won an Oscar in 2013) and auteur-led efforts (“Rachel Getting Married”). But amid some personal exhaustion, a growing family and perplexing public backlash, Hathaway, now 43, receded some in recent years, landing firmly in a quieter place.

Jake Reiner, the eldest son of Rob and Michelle Reiner, published a tribute to his late parents on Friday and described the "living nightmare" he has experienced since their murders ​in December.

Prediction: Pastels are officially making a comeback. The rumors have been floating around a while, but now it’s official. “Miami Vice” is poised to change fashion choices for a new generation, Variety reports.

There are many uncanny things in “Michael,” the Michael Jackson biopic directed by Antoine Fuqua, that literally made my jaw drop. For example, Miles Teller’s eyebrows, inexplicably tinted and placed. He plays John Branca, the bulldog entertainment lawyer Michael Jackson hires to fire his abusive father/manager. Then there’s the computer-generated menagerie that Michael keeps on his family’s ...

DENVER — A dearly departed, geriatric Colorado beaver with a tree allergy served as a major inspiration for Pixar’s latest animated delight, “Hoppers.” Pixar creators studied Ginger, formerly a resident of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, as part of their research for the beaver-centric film with an eco-friendly message. Ginger retired to the big dam in the sky in 2022 when she ...

Nearly two years after actor Alec Baldwin was cleared of criminal charges in the "Rust" movie shooting death, a long simmering civil negligence case is inching toward a trial this fall. On Friday, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge denied a summary judgment motion requested by the film producers Rust Movie Productions LLC, as well as actor/producer Baldwin and his company El Dorado Pictures to ...

 Sitting down with Sir Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, you’d understandably assume they are longtime friends. The actors warmly chitchat about everything from indigestion to schoolyard bullies to their favorite Broadway shows, and at one point they break out into a warbling duet of “Memory” from “Cats.”

Bob Odenkirk knows what kind of action star he is — and, maybe more importantly, isn't. At 63, less than five years removed from a heart attack that nearly ended his life, the actor understands exactly what his body is capable of. 

Is Bob Odenkirk “Nobody” or is he “Normal”? The continual self-effacement of his characters in his recent action hero era is something he and screenwriter Derek Kolstad will have to take up with a psychotherapist, but the latest installment in their “Surprise! Bob Odenkirk kills people!” micro-genre is “Normal,” a title that indicates nothing normal at all is about to happen on screen. What ...

Why do artists keep returning to William Shakespeare? His plays – rife with explorations of deep humanity and emotion – provide not just a framework for hanging many different worlds upon his words, but also the kind of complex characters and twisted tales that actors and filmmakers crave, whether tragedy, romance or comedy. The latest movie adaptation of an iconic Shakespeare play is “Hamlet,” directed by Aneil Karia, which sees Riz Ahmed star as the prodigal prince, mourning the death of his father.

LOS ANGELES – Movie critics were no match for Mario over the weekend.

There are tons of video game adaptation movies, and even TV shows (“The Last of Us”) but they’ve tended to skew more adult – “Resident Evil,” “Assassin’s Creed,” “Mortal Kombat,” “Tomb Raider,” etc. Even the first “Super Mario Bros.” in 1993 was more racy cyberpunk nightmare than kid-friendly entertainment.

For those of us who watched all six seasons of the British crime series “Peaky Blinders,” the release of the Netflix feature film “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” provides us with a final reckoning to the story of the fictional gang leader Tommy Shelby.

The “Super Mario Bros.” world has always been a family affair – it’s right there in the title, after all. The wildly successful 40-year-old Japanese video game franchise features a pair of Italian American plumber brothers from Brooklyn who spend their time powering up and jumping around the Mushroom Kingdom. But their motley crew of friends and enemies haven’t had their own sibling dynamic until now, in “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” the sequel to the 2023 smash animated hit, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”

In 2024, Tinashe sang “is somebody gonna match my freak?” in her hit song “Nasty,” and the lyric became an almost philosophical way of seeing the world. Is matching freaks our ultimate goal as human beings, and what would it look like to share our freakiest self with someone else? What is allowed under the freaky umbrella? These are the sort of questions that animate Norwegian auteur ...

It’s clear that “Forbidden Fruits” director and co-writer Meredith Alloway has marinated in plenty of ‘90s teen movies and the kitschy pop culture ephemera of that era. Her directorial debut, written with Lily Houghton and based on Houghton’s play “Of the woman came the beginning of sin and through her we all die,” is essentially a synthesis of “The Craft,” “Mean Girls” and “Clueless,” about a ...