Film

The setting is a ballet class, and the year is 1974. George Balanchine raises his arms in exasperation at the...

WASHINGTON - It was not quite midday on a sunny Saturday in Washington, and Dr Anthony S. Fauci, famed infectious...

This month's recommendations include a terrific (but modest) indie trio from the start of the year, as well as thoughtful...

A new French documentary, directed by Antoine Vitkine, arrives in the United States with less fanfare than expected. A better...

Saadi Yacef, a revolutionary leader who fought the French regime in Algeria in the 1950s and then sparked - and...

Freedom, Maine, residents 722, is about as far from Hollywood as it gets. So when Erin French, who runs the...

When Gillian Flynn submitted her novel "Gone Girl" to her editor, Crown, she wasn't sure what the executives would think...

Anthony Johnson, an actor and comedian known for his modest but memorable roles in "Friday", "House Party" and about two...

When you do a musical for a movie, you're probably going to look for actors who can, you know, to...

"Do you want to go to the orchestra?" Whispered a voice from the darkness.I was at the Toronto International Film...

In “Anatomy of a Scene”, we ask directors to reveal the secrets that make it possible to create key scenes...

Everybody's Talking About Jamie should be credited for its daring: this new British musical isn't afraid to be predictable. The...

"Bleed with me"Stream it on Shudder.Rowan (Lee Marshall) is a Weird Girl who turns into a Weird Girl when she...

“My name is Michael Showalter and I am the director of“ The Eyes of Tammy Faye ”. So, in this...

Jessica Chastain has spent years seizing the opportunity to play Tammy Faye Messner, the tireless star of Christian broadcasting. Best...

Jane Powell, whose beauty and lyrical soprano voice brought her Hollywood stardom before her late teens - but whose film...

"Blue Bayou" opens with a close-up of Antonio LeBlanc (played by writer and director Justin Chon) being interviewed for a...

Joan Washington, an acclaimed dialect coach who taught Penélope Cruz to speak Greek, Jessica Chastain to sound Israeli and a...

In its opening moments, “The Mad Women's Ball” slowly focuses on a woman's neck and the swirl of her hair...

In the 1990s, Diony Arce, lead singer of Cuban heavy metal band Zeus, was jailed for six years. This act...

Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce is best known for his provocative twists on modern sexuality, but his latest is a semi-classic...

In mathematics, there was Newton; in psychology, there was Freud; and in American ballet, George Balanchine was a founding genius....

Looking back, one should have known that a collaboration between Nicolas Cage and the dashing eccentric Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono...

A mirror room not reflecting much, "The Nowhere Inn", directed by Bill Benz, is a joke perpetrated by singer Annie...

If you were watching television in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s - the old tri-network days that...

“My Name is Pauli Murray,” the clearly educational documentary by filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen, is based on the...

Jon (Andrew Garfield) throws a party, though there's little reason to celebrate. He's torn with anxiety, his cramped apartment is...

Can a mop of curly hair, a backpack and an outfit that looks like a mom's choice for school photo...

Although she lived humbly, Murray, who called her favorite method of persuasion "typewriter confrontation," had long been aware of her...

In the children's horror film "Nightbooks", a preteen is held hostage by a malicious witch. Alex (Winslow Fegley) is a...