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Val Kilmer, ‘Top Gun’ star with an intense approach, dies at 65

Val Kilmer died from pneumonia. He had recovered after a 2014 throat cancer diagnosis that required two tracheotomies.

A folk legend gets a reunion he didn’t sign up for in this melancholy charmer

An affable lottery winner decides to bring his favorite singer to a remote island off the coast of Wales for a private concert. Turns out, he’s invited the singer’s ex-bandmate/ex-girlfriend, too.

A young man’s homecoming sets off erotic shockwaves in this unsettling French thriller

Misericordia is one of the most surprising films our critic’s seen this year. It focuses on a man who returns to his small village for a funeral — only to become enmeshed in countless entanglements.

‘Death of a Unicorn’ is a myth-fire

In Death of a Unicorn, Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega star as dad and daughter facing off against some angry-as-hell horned beasts. Like so many creature features, it poses a direct question amid all the chaos and carnage: Who’s the real monster here? The…

The Sundance Film Festival announces its new home: Boulder, Colorado

The festival has been a Park City, Utah institution for over 40 years.

‘Việt and Nam’ is a film about love, exile and the memory of war

NPR’s Emily Kwong speaks with director Trương Minh Quý about his new film Việt and Nam. It follows the journey of two young miners as they search for intimacy and escape.

New in theaters this week: A dead unicorn, an adopted penguin, and a band reunited

A roadkill unicorn, a family of greedy pharmaceutical moguls, and an innocent teenager are the main ingredients in A24’s new grisly horror comedy Death of a Unicorn.

More than three years after fatal on-set shooting, the ‘Rust’ trailer is out

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed when a gun that Alec Baldwin was holding went off on the set of the film in 2021. Last summer, a judge in New Mexico dismissed Baldwin’s case for involuntary manslaughter.

Mission accepted: Amazon’s ‘James Bond’ series has found its new producers

Producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman have accepted the call to lead the new Bond franchise.

Tom Green

The Tom Green Show was ahead of its time. Its surreal stunts and pranks influenced a number of TV shows over the past twenty five years in that genre. In recent years, Tom Green kind of took a break. But Tom Green fans can rejoice – he’s the star of three new projects. The projects come at a reflective time of his life and he gets real about starting a new chapter in his life. Plus, he brought his dog into the studio. You’re going to want to hear about this dog.

Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers, detained by army

Israeli settlers beat up Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the documentary film No Other Land, in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. He was then detained by the Israeli military.

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