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After 52 episodes over six years, two feature films, a touring exhibit of costumes, and enough merch to fill the title residence, “Downton Abbey” is almost in the “Up” series category for our connection to the...

The most noteworthy thing about the competition film “Tchaikovsky’s Wife,” strong as it is, might not be the movie at all. It’s that the director, Kirill Serebrennikov, was in Cannes at the Grand Théâtre Lumière to attend...

Ask anyone outside of Los Angeles who Angelyne is, and you may be greeted with a confused shrug. But for Angelenos of a particular generation, she was a hyper-local legend: the mysterious blonde bombshell who suddenly...

The highlight of this year’s Cannes opening ceremony was a sudden appearance by the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, who spoke to the audience by live feed toward the end of the event. He spoke in Ukrainian,...

A recent tweet plaintively asked, “Couldn’t we get a Schoolhouse Rock for grown-ups?” A new series on Netflix called “The G Word” is pretty close. It doesn’t have singing and dancing animated legislative proposals and founding...

When it was officially announced that David Lynch’s groundbreaking series “Twin Peaks” was returning for a third season a quarter century after its initial premiere, one of the show’s most ardent fans, Scott Ryan, had an...

“Life Itself,” Steve James’ acclaimed 2014 documentary about the life and legacy of our site’s namesake, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert, will be screened at 7pm CT this Thursday, May 19th, at FACETS, 1517 W. Fullerton...

Upon hearing the sad and unexpected news regarding the announcement of the passing of actor Fred Ward, who died on May 8 at the age of 79, I, like so many of you, took a look...

The 75th Cannes International Film Festival opens on May 17, ushering in what is touted to be a mandate-free, mask-optional celebration of cinema through May 28, harking back to the carefree good old pre-Covid days (well,...

“Montana Story,” about a brother and sister coming to terms with tragic family secrets during a road trip, is a throwback to an era of independent cinema in which an intimate story about people involved in situations...