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Weekly Movie Guide
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Ben Affleck, who directed, co-wrote and stars in “Animals,” never finds much of a pulse in his lackluster Akira Kurosawa riff for Netflix. In transferring the story to Los Angeles, Affleck opens the hostage story up to new thematic fronts — divorce, public persona, duplicity — that have meaningful reverberations for him.
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If David Fincher’s 2010 tech drama “The Social Network” was about Mark Zuckerberg’s legal battle to secure the Facebook bag, Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Reckoning,” arriving 15 years later, is about the burden of what it means to carry that bag.
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In the era of gentle parenting, even the word discipline can feel like a third-rail topic. It’s certainly foreboding when it’s first mentioned in Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord,” the prickly Romanian Palme d’Or winner opening in theaters this weekend. It’s built to get under your skin.
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Ten years ago, moviegoers got a love letter to Los Angeles in the achingly sweet “La La Land,” where characters danced on air. Gravity arrives a decade later in Chris Rock’s terrific poison pen letter to the city, “Misty Green.”
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On the cusp of the studio’s merger with Paramount, Warner Bros.’ “Digger” flopped in its opening weekend, handing Tom Cruise one of the worst debuts of his career and serving as a bitter final note for Warner Bros. as a standalone studio.
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“Disclosure Day” and a new album from Pitbull are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Nana Patekar, an acclaimed Indian actor and filmmaker, died Thursday at his home in the western state of Goa. He was 75.
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It’s official: Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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