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‘Will & Harper’ navigate transition and friendship in a cross-country road trip

Will Ferrell and his longtime friend and former SNL writing partner Harper Steele traveled from New York to California, talking along the way about Steele coming out as a trans woman.

In ‘A Different Man’, Sebastian Stan gets a new life, but misses his old one

The off-beat psycho dramedy A Different Man follows Edward (Sebastian Stan), an aspiring actor living with facial disfigurement. He takes an opportunity to try a new procedure and reconstruct his appearance. But then, he encounters a guy with the same …

Brad Pitt and George Clooney are perfectly cast as two old pros in ‘Wolfs’

Pitt and Clooney play competing Hollywood “fixers” in this Apple TV+ film. The movie feels lazy and low-key, but these charismatic actors deftly deliver mocking silences and barbed asides.

Remembering legendary British actor Maggie Smith

Smith, who died Sept. 27, was best known to American audiences for her roles in the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey. She won two Academy Awards in a career that spanned nearly seven decades.

Batman’s nemesis Joker returns to theaters — this time he’s got a song in his heart

The origin story of the “Joker” continues, as the sequel “Joker: Folie à Deux” hits theaters on Friday. Meanwhile on HBO, the origin story behind “The Penguin” is underway.

‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ is much a deux about nothing

The new film Joker: Folie à Deux is the sequel to 2019’s Joker, which won Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar. This new film is a courtroom drama and a romance tossed into a musical blender set to liquefy, as the Joker goes on trial for the murders he committed i…

‘Rust’ movie will get world premiere 3 years after cinematographer’s on-set death

The Western will premiere at a Polish film festival next month at a screening to honor the cinematographer. Hutchins was killed in 2021 after a loaded prop gun handled by actor Alec Baldwin went off.

Daniel Day-Lewis ends 7-year retirement to act in his son’s film

The three-time Oscar winner announced the end of his acting career in 2017. The new film, Anemone, will be directed by the actor’s son, Ronan Day-Lewis, from a script that the pair co-wrote together.

John Amos, star of TV’s ‘Good Times’ and ‘Roots,’ dies at 84

Amos starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots.”

‘The movie tells you how to make it’: After decades, Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ is here

“Every movie I make involves passion,” writer and director Francis Ford Coppola says. “The Godfather is very classical. Apocalypse Now is very wild.” His latest, Megalopolis, is a Roman epic – set in New Rome, a futuristic New York City.

‘Megalopolis’ is a sprawling megalopo-mess

Francis Ford Coppola, the legendary filmmaker behind The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, is back with his first new film in over a decade. It reimagines the fall of Rome through a futuristic American city, and has a lot of big and messy ideas abo…

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