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Ricky Martin defends Versace murder drama as respectful

Saturday, 26 August 2017, 15:20 Last update: about 9 years ago

A roundup of news from the closing day of the Television Critics Association summer meeting, at which TV networks and streaming services presented details on upcoming programs. KILLING...

Robert Pattinson goes undercover in NYC for 'Good Time'

Friday, 25 August 2017, 15:19 Last update: about 9 years ago

"Good Time" is a story about one bad night gone worse. Robert Pattinson plays a small time Queens crook named Connie Nikas whose botched robbery and escape attempt lands his mentally handicapped...

Insider Q&A: Scary forecasts at the box office

Thursday, 24 August 2017, 15:19 Last update: about 9 years ago

It's been a rough summer at the box office, and movie theater chains are feeling the pain. It got worse last week when AMC Entertainment said U.S. box office grosses are sinking. Paul Dergarabedian, a...

'Ingrid Goes West' looks at social media's dark side

Wednesday, 23 August 2017, 15:18 Last update: about 9 years ago

For the title character in "Ingrid Goes West ," there is no question, and perhaps no distinction. Powered by Aubrey Plaza's searing performance, director and co-writer Matt Spicer's feature debut...

A questionable murder derails 'Rough Night' fun

Tuesday, 22 August 2017, 15:17 Last update: about 9 years ago

In "Rough Night " four women on a wild and crazy bachelorette weekend in Miami accidentally kill a guy and try to get away with it. You know it's coming. It's right there in the trailer. In...

In 'Wind River' grief blankets a Wyoming reservation

Sunday, 20 August 2017, 15:18 Last update: about 9 years ago

For Taylor Sheridan, the West is still alive with frontier tragedies and genre thrills, even if hopelessness has moved in and blanketed the land. "Wind River" makes it a kind of trilogy for...

Riveting 'Dunkirk' is Nolan's, and year's, best

Saturday, 19 August 2017, 15:17 Last update: about 9 years ago

There are no brothers in arms, no flashbacks to simpler times and pretty wives and girlfriends left behind, no old men in situation rooms pontificating about politics or helping with exposition....

M.J. Rose takes readers on a journey to 1925 in new novel

Saturday, 19 August 2017, 14:49 Last update: about 9 years ago

M.J. Rose takes readers on a journey to 1925, where a post-war environment invoked a sense of heightened passion and new opportunities in "The Library of Light and Shadow." Delphine Duplessi has...

'Landline,' a rom-com with love crumbling everywhere

Friday, 18 August 2017, 15:16 Last update: about 9 years ago

There's an eye-popping scene in the new film "Landline" when our heroine is walking around New York City and decides to check her phone messages. So get this: She walks over to some weird...

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