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Friday, July 26, 2024
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Friday, July 26, 2024
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‘Simone Biles Rising’ review: An elite gymnast untangles the twisties
Ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, where gymnast Simone Biles is set to compete, the two-part Netflix documentary “Simone Biles Rising” focuses on a pivotal even...
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Thelma
This is a pleasant little comedy with a good heart and great affection for all of its characters. June Squibb plays a 93-year-old woman (the titular Thel...
The greatest plot twists lie at the end of a long trail of clues, dramatically revealing an answer hidden in plain sight all along.
The marketing campaign for independent...
FORT WORTH, Texas — Daisy Edgar-Jones is starring in one of the biggest movies of the summer, “Twisters.”
The 26-year-old British actress appears in the next chapter of t...
Faye Dunaway took risks, racking up three best actress Oscar nominations (and one win) for playing a string of problematic women who dared the audience to have their back...
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The Best 100 Books of the 21st Century
New York Times
The multi-faceted, interactive project is great fun for readers from the most erudite to clods like me. Fi...
Judge Reinhold is in a truck barreling down the highway chased by angry cops when he turns to Eddie Murphy at the wheel and says something we're all feeling, “God, I miss...
Kevin Costner was 23 in 1978, when he filmed his first feature, “Sizzle Beach, U.S.A.,” also known as “Malibu Hot Summer.” That’s one fact.
Another one: Kevin Costner loo...
Paul Walter Hauser has nothing to be embarrassed about. Seven years after his breakout in "I, Tonya," the Saginaw, Michigan, native is one of Hollywood's busiest actors, ...
LOS ANGELES — On a bright June afternoon in the San Fernando Valley, the summer's unlikeliest action hero sits down at a small dining table in the tidy ground-floor apart...
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The new horror movie "The Watchers," now in theaters, comes from a director whose family name you know, but whose filmmaking style you'll see for the first time on the bi...
He’s 61 now, well-off and trim. He has many accomplishments as an actor but there's this one thing he finds hard to shake: Back in 1985, he got called something.
During t...
In August 1926, a 19-year-old New Yorker named Trudy Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had finished the 21-mile trek from Cape Gris...
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Ezra
“Ezra” is such a good movie — touching, funny, thoughtful. It’s one of my favorite films of the year so far. The title character is an 11-year-old boy livi...
There are moments when the spark of creation suddenly ignites and history stops. Like when the Wright brothers got a plane to fly. Or when Oreo added double filling. Mayb...
For a guy like Glen Powell, the ascent to movie stardom isn’t really a question. It’s more like an inevitability.
Blessed with that square jawline, those bright green eye...
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Unfrosted
Netflix
This Jerry Seinfeld black comedy about the 1963 battle between Kellogg’s and Post cereal companies over who could develop and market what beca...
If you’re looking for a little bit of that “Top Gun: Maverick “ spectacle and thrill at the movie theater this summer, you’re in luck. A groundbreaking new documentary, ...
Let’s all be clear, if we weren’t already, that when it comes to Jennifer Lopez, it's about the love story. Always the love story.
J.Lo the pop star, singing about rekind...
It’s a real story: An activist lawyer goes underground after being accused of smuggling a gun to a San Quentin prisoner. Shortly afterward, the prisoner took part in a bl...
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