The boxing world has a light heavyweight bout in Southern California on Saturday, July 6 with the headliner match between two former-UFC fighters: Americas Nate “The Stockton Slap” Diaz (0-1-0) vs. Jorge “Gamebred” Masvidal (1-0-0). Last Man Standing: Nate Diaz vs. Jorge
Oh, Canada! The WWE is going “up north” with Money In The Bank 2024. This year’s pro wrestling event features five matchups — including two title bouts for the World Heavyweight Championship and Intercontinental Championship — on Saturday, July 6. For the main event, WWE World
Jon Landau, the Oscar-winning producer who made the dreams of James Cameron come to life by overcoming extreme logistical challenges to bring the filmmaker’s Titanic and Avatar blockbusters to the big screen, has died. He was 63. Landau’s son Jamie Landau confirmed his death to
Jon Landau, the Oscar-winning producer of “Titanic” and both “Avatar” movies, died of cancer on Friday, July 5. He was 63. Landau, a longtime producing partner to James Cameron, was behind three of the top four highest-grossing movies of all time. Landau helped make history
Fingernails, the sophomore feature from Christos Nikou, starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White and Annie Murphy, closed the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Saturday evening. Nikou, the Athens-born director of Apples, used a stage
Judy Belushi Pisano, the widow of legendary comedian John Belushi who spent decades preserving and protecting his legacy, died Friday after a long battle with cancer. She was 73. News of Pisano’s passing was reported Saturday by the MV Times news outlet covering Martha’s
Mark Cousins’ portrait of a British modernist painter, “A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things,” took the Karlovy Vary Film Festival top prize Saturday, winning over a jury that included Christine Vachon and Geoffrey Rush with its perceptive take on art and seeing. Cousins said the
Not for the first time in his filmmaking career, Northern Irish documentarian Mark Cousins begins his latest work by presenting the audience with a banal image, and persuasively talking us into a reconsideration. The picture is an unremarkable vacation snapshot of British
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, Mark Cousins‘ documentary essay about Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and her neurodiversity, including diary passages narrated by Tilda Swinton, won the Grand Prix – Crystal Globe, the top award at the Karlovy Vary International Film
Maxine will not accept a life she does not deserve (or a shabby apartment on Hollywood Boulevard either)! “MaXXXine,” the end to the “X” trilogy of horror films from writer and director Ti West, sees Maxine Minx relocate to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams of stardom after
About 8.5 million viewers tuned in Friday night to President Joe Biden’s much-anticipated interview with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, in which the President sought to convince voters and fellow Democrats that he is still the best candidate to run for re-election
For fans of American roots music, the Mississippi John Hurt Museum in Avalon, Mississippi, may have been housed inside a 200-year-old shack with a tin roof—it was the childhood home of the late great bluesman—but it was living in an edifice as beautiful and inspiring as the
When too many contemporary theatre writers mistake the grinding of political axes for properly developed drama, it’s a relief to realize that Australian playwright Kendall Feaver is more than aware of the importance of well-peopled plot. Her campus drama “Alma Mater” is driven
Illumination and Universal’s Minions franchise isn’t getting any worse for the wear as Despicable Me 4 rules the Fourth of July box office with an estimated five-day opening of $120 million, including a three-day weekend haul of $72.4 million. That’s in line with expectations
Trailers make “Fly Me to the Moon” look cute at best, when in fact it’s quite clever: a smarter-than-it-sounds, space-age sparring match of the Rock Hudson/Doris Day variety, in which the honest-to-a-fault NASA launch director responsible for sending Apollo 11 into orbit (a
It’s hard to get a cellphone signal, up in the high mountains of Himachal Pradesh in Northern India. Especially in the dead of winter when deep snowdrifts absorb all sound and jagged encircling ridges form an impenetrably icy barrier. But without WiFi coverage, Subhadra
Mike Heslin, an actor who appeared in the series “Lioness” and in the TV movie “The Holiday Proposal Plan,” died July 2. His husband announced his death on Instagram, writing that the cause was a “sudden cardiac event.” His husband, Scotty Dynamo (né Nicolas James Wilson) wrote
Hollywood glamour meets reality for “MaXXXine,” where the titular aspiring actress and former adult film star finally sees her big break on the 1980s silver screen. In the movie, the premiere for Maxine Minx’s (Mia Goth) breakthrough role takes place at the TCL Chinese Theatre
The Minions are going bananas for the holidays, with “Despicable Me 4” projecting a five-day opening of $120 million for the Fourth of July weekend. Playing in 4,428 locations, the sixth installment in Illumination and Universal’s animated series took in an additional $27
Margarida Cardoso’s “Banzo,” which plays in the main competition section of Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week, is a deeply evocative consideration of the literal heartbreak of colonialism in Africa. It was filmed on location on the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, where
If Alexander Payne’s home discomforts weren’t Nebraskan but instead the soft climate and flat sidewalks of Rotterdam — if his name were Alexander Peijn, perhaps — his films might turn out a little like Peter Hoogendoorn’s hangdog charmer “Three Days of Fish.” At once
The period around 1968 in what was then known as Czechoslovakia has gotten the film and TV treatment numerous times. But the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) saw the world premiere of Waves, a new take on the time before and after the
“All happy families are alike,” claims the immortal first sentence of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”; “each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” And while jaded viewers may opine that all indie dramedies about dysfunctional families in the “Little Miss Sunshine” or “The
Ruben Östlund knows it sounds “absurd” to complain about winning awards, however, he admits that they add another level of “pressure” for filmmakers. During a recent conversation with Mother Couch writer-director Niclas Larsson for Interview magazine, the Triangle of Sadness
President Joe Biden still has an easy and telegenic smile. And, for a flickering moment in his interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos — aired as a 30-minute special Friday night after having been taped earlier that day — that covered for a lot. The commander-in-chief
Eddie Murphy’s title character in the Netflix film Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F has an unexpected partner for fighting crime. The streaming service shared a new promo for the action-comedy movie on Friday that features Crazy Frog, the animated character that rose to pop culture
FX’s “The Bear” served up more than 1.2 billion minutes watched during its first full week in release on Hulu while Eddie Murphy’s return to form in Netflix’s “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” grabbed a big crowd in its first 48 hours of release, according to Luminate’s streaming
"I worked on this film during a rollercoaster time in my life and I will always cherish the memories of this set," said the singer and actress
President Joe Biden acknowledged a weak performance at last week’s presidential debate but tried to assure Americans during an ABC News interview that he was fit to run again in the 2024 race for the White House against Donald Trump. Speaking with ABC News’ George
SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses plot points from “A Quiet Place: Day One,” now playing in theaters. “A Quiet Place: Day One” is filled with tense silence, brutal kills and a moving ending, which leaves the door open for more apocalyptic horrors. Oscar winner Lupita
Cardi B has been sued by a pair of producers for copyright infringement. Joshua Fraustro and Miguel Aguilar, who also go by Kemika1956, claim Cardi stole the beat used in their song “Greasy Frybread” to create her own “Enough (Miami).” In a complaint filed in Texas on July 3,
Lawrence Rothman has been knocking around the music scene for two decades, but not until this year would anyone have likely pegged them as primarily an Americana artist. The L.A.-based performer didn’t necessarily come off as someone begging to set up a secondary base in
