Featured Voices
Why Donald Trump’s Name Went Unmentioned at the Golden Globes
Once a platform for political expression, the 2025 awards season kickoff party saw Hollywood players rein in their opinions.
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Enough With the Dylan-Splaining: ‘A Complete Unknown’ Isn’t a Documentary! (Guest Column)
The creative liberties taken by the Bob Dylan biopic are short-circuiting its target audience.
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Critic’s Notebook: Mariah Carey’s Christmas Tune Could Become the Greatest Song of All Time
Here's why "All I Want for Christmas Is You," which reemerges on the charts each holiday season, is on track to become the most successful song ever released.
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Dear Elton John: Lighten Up, and Maybe Light One Up (Guest Column)
The EGOT once sang a different tune about cannabis.
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In ‘Gladiator II,’ Ridley Scott Sifts Through the Past to See Our Future
"The filmmaker stares down the world as it rolls forward, a chariot holding all we could be," writes Richard Newby in an essay on the epic sequel.
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‘Wicked’ and Hollywood’s Bumpy Road to Oz
Jon M. Chu’s musical starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo is defying gravity at the box office — but it was a winding yellow-brick road of Hollywood adaptations to get here from 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939).
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On Camerimage and the “Think Cinematographer, Think Male” Problem (Guest Column)
Dr. Stacy L. Smith, the founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, the leading global think tank studying issues of inequality in entertainment, weighs in on the controversy out of the DP-centric film fest in Poland.
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How ‘The Penguin’ Succeeds as a Comic Book Adaptation in an Era of So-Called Fatigue
The hit Max series dances in and out of the character’s comic, TV and cinematic history to create a compelling vision of one of Batman’s most iconic rogues.
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How the Oscar Race Responds to Donald Trump
From 'Anora' to 'Wicked,' Oscar movies are not staying quiet about issues raised by the incoming administration.
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When Fidel Castro Played Basketball for Me and Gina Lollobrigida (Guest Column)
At 80, the legendary Hollywood publicist Kathie Berlin recalls one of her most memorable adventures: accompanying the Italian actress and photographer to meet Cuba's Comandante in 1974.
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Kamala Harris Goads Donald Trump Into a Frenzy at Presidential Debate
The VP seemed to get under the GOP nominee’s skin, as the former president shouted through their first head-to-head, lobbed insults at his opponent and ranted about … Haitian immigrants eating dogs.
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This Is How I Made That Crazy Prince Andrew Interview Happen
The real Newsnight editor featured in 'Scoop' tells all about that fateful sit-down.
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