Daily Archives: February 22, 2025

‘Dreams (Sex Love)’ Wins the Berlin Film Festival, While ‘The Blue Trail’ Takes Silver Bear

The 75th anniversary edition of the Berlin Film Festival drew to a close with tonight’s awards ceremony, as the jury awarded the Golden Bear to Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Dreams (Sex Love),” the portrait of a teenage girl with a passionate imagination who pours

Ex-James Bond Timothy Dalton is ‘Very Surprised and Shocked’ Amazon Took Control of 007 Franchise: ‘They’ll Be Doing Their Best to Make a Lot of Money’

Timothy Dalton, who played James Bond in 1987’s “The Living Daylights” and 1989’s “Licence to Kill,” is weighing in on the blockbuster deal that saw longtime producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli pass complete creative control of the iconic British super spy franchise to

‘Yellowjackets’ Co-Showrunner on That Trippy Hallucination Sequence, [SPOILER]’s Return and the Origins of the Man With No Eyes

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Yellowjackets” Season 3, Episode 3, titled “Them’s the Breaks,” streaming now on Paramount+ with Showtime. After unwittingly tripping on shrooms during Doomcoming (Season 1), the Yellowjackets have now stumbled upon a new hallucinogenic substance in the wilderness: poisonous

‘The Apprentice’ Director Ali Abbasi Says He Is ‘Truly Sorry’ Following Groping Accusation, States Reports That He Was Dropped by His Representation are ‘False’: ‘I Believe in Taking Accountability for My Actions’

Ali Abbasi has released an official statement after news broke Friday of an alleged groping incident that occurred at this year’s Golden Globes. “I want to address the recent articles about me directly and openly,” Abbasi wrote in a statement shared on X. “I fully

‘Captain America: Brave New World’: Composer Laura Karpman Used a Choir to Deliver Red Hulk’s ‘Big-Ass Monster Music’

For “Captain America: Brave New World,” director Julius Onah wanted his entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be rooted in the world of a political thriller. Films like “The Day of the Jackal,” “Le Samouraï” and even “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” were

Box Office: ‘The Monkey’ Drums Up $5.8 Million Opening Day, ‘Captain America’ Gets Second Term on Top

Neon’s horror comedy “The Monkey” is seeing and doing a strong opening weekend, though it’ll take silver at the box office behind Disney’s “Captain America: Brave New World,” still on top of the charts but facing a substantial tumble in its second weekend. “The Monkey”

‘Severance’ Stars John Turturro and Christopher Walken on That ‘Dinner From Hell’ and Why Irving Visits Burt’s House: ‘Curiosity, Insecurity, Jealousy’ 

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 6 of “Severance,” now streaming on Apple TV+. In the world of “Severance,” the line between one’s two selves — good and evil, innie and outie — can be imperceptibly thin. For Helly R. (Britt

‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow’ Review: An Intimate Documentary Epic About Journalists at War

At nearly five-and-a-half hours — further divided into five massive chapters — Julia Loktev’s “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow” is less like typical docu-journalism, and more akin to Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” The first volume in a two-part series about