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Documentary production operates without a script: CNN Films and Jigsaw each started out making one film, and wound up making another.

"One word: plastics," the guy says to Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate." "Social media," we say to the Academy.

If you’re a Dolly Parton fan, it’s part of her sneaky charm that the true bodaciousness in this figure of flashy, ogled glitz was always her singing/songwriting gifts, among the richest ever heard in American popular music. It’s no great leap, then, to imagine Parton’s tuneful, homespun repertoire

Editor’s note: A restored version of the 1984 film “The Bostonians” opens Dec. 7 at the Laemmle Royal. The Times originally published this review Dec. 6, 1984. You may have already heard or read that in “The Bostonians,” Vanessa Redgrave is Olive Chancellor incarnate. And so she seems to be, illuminating

'Spitak' With a theatrical release timed to coincide with the anniversary of the devastating 1988 Armenian Earthquake, Alexander Kott’s “Spitak” is a spare, haunting character-driven drama set in the immediate aftermath of the temblor that left more than 25,000 dead. Hurrying back to Spitak, where

Only one royal has made it into the title, but “Mary Queen of Scots” is in truth a regal double bill, and it’s as a showcase for the two actresses who play dueling monarchs that it is most successful. The redoubtable Saoirse Ronan, thrice Oscar nominated at age 24, is appropriately regal and commanding

What's fun about the Golden Globes nominations is they are always packed with surprises.

The diminutive comedian has proclaimed his eagerness to host since 2015. Now he has his chance to prove he can boost declining ratings.

“Write When You Get Work” doesn’t work. Not as a romance, not as a Robin Hood-tinged caper flick, not as a social commentary on racial inequity or classism, and not as a male-buddy picture — all elements director Stacy Cochran attempts to wedge into her often muddled, under-focused script. Ruth

At the beginning of versatile Scottish actress Karen Gillan’s debut feature as a writer-director, “The Party’s Just Beginning,” we might be forgiven for looking upon Liusaidh (Gillan) as just another callously hedonistic, snarky 20-something. In the opening scenes, she uses her karaoke time to

This year's juries went diverse with their picks, which were dominated by male creators.

Disney has some innovative approaches to elevate the perception of "Black Panther" in the Oscar race, and they just might work.

SHANG-CHI gets the Marvel Movie treatment Read the full article on AICN Roni here, Hot on the heels of the news that Marvel TV is apparently shutting down all of its Netflix series offerings, Deadline reports that Marvel Studios is fast-tracking a Shang-Chi movie as its first superhero movie tentpole franchise centering an Asian protagonist, and has secured Dave Callaham, a Chinese-American Black List screenwriter, to pen the screenplay. Created in the 70s by Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin, Shang-Chi was billed as the unknown son of Fu Manchu - so, right there, you know there's some very problematic comic book Asian history to overcome.

What’s a gift you can’t go wrong with? Anything regarding travel, because you know very well that’s gonna be a lot of people’s new year's resolution! Buzz60's Maria Mercedes Galuppo has more.        

Anderson's latest is live-action, set in France, and mixes some of his regulars with some exciting new blood.