For its 16th edition, which starts Thursday, the festival is adding Monday screenings to better showcase the winning films.
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From the Neil Armstrong biopic “First Man” to “Amazon Women on the Moon,” some of these are more helpful than others.
“The Predator,” the sequel/reboot opening Friday, shouldn’t be mistaken for 1987’s “Predator” or 2010’s “Predators,” which, unlike the “Alien”/“Aliens” combo, wasn’t a direct sequel. That would have been 1990’s “Predator 2.”
HBO still has “Game of Thrones,” one of the biggest shows on TV. But lately, the premium channel has made the most noise by thinking small.
If “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” was considered a “requel” — part remake, part sequel — of “A New Hope,” think of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” as “The First Order Strikes Back.”
“Wonder Woman” has been one of the biggest and best surprises of the moviegoing year.
They say you’ll never forget your first time.
In addition to the new “MST3K,” the Las Vegas Academy graduate has two other shows on the air: the documentary “Fatherless” on Fusion and the third season of the Netflix comedy “Grace and Frankie.”
“That’s probably a movie first, maybe,” writer-director Damien Chazelle said with a laugh while discussing the film’s connection to the small Southern Nevada town, specifically its library.
You can live the majority of your professional life assuming you’re a movie star. And then — Boom! — one day you wake up, and it turns out you were meant for TV all along, in the absolute best way possible.
There’s a boy named Pete. He has a dragon. And that’s pretty much where the similarities between this weekend’s “Pete’s Dragon” andthe 1977 original begin and end.
The district attorney says he knew participating in the show would open up his office to criticism, but he says he treated the show as any other media request. “But at the end of the day, I’m very proud of this project,” Wolfson says.
“You know, I once made love on a pool table in Hot Coffee, Mississippi, with six members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
It’s spring break season, which means that, for the next couple of weeks, the Strip will be crawling — and stumbling and staggering — with tens of thousands more drunk college students than usual.
The new 1970s rock drama, “Vinyl” (9 p.m. Sunday, HBO), has Mick Jagger’s DNA all over it.
