Arts

Ralph Ineson plays "the man in black" in "Near Algodones," the second segment of the Western anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Beginning Nov. 16, the film will play in theaters for a week before it becomes available for streaming on Netflix.

Arts

Life's Cruelty Is A Constant In The Coen Brothers' Mixed Bag Western 'Ballad'

12:56pm November 09, 2018

by Justin Chang

Joel and Ethan Coen's new film is a feature-length collection of six stories set in the Old West. Justin Chang says the tall tales featured in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs are an odd, melancholy lot.

cover image of The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem

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A Noir Novel For The Trump Era, From Jonathan Lethem

12:00pm November 09, 2018

by Mary Louise Kelly

The Feral Detective follows a New Yorker reeling from the 2016 election and the eccentric private eye of the title deep into the California desert.

Jeff Goldblum's new album with his jazz group, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, is called The Capitol Studios Sessions.

Jeff Goldblum The Jazz Artist? Life, Uh, Finds A Way

9:18am November 09, 2018

At his weekly gigs in L.A. — and now on a new live album — you'll find the actor playing keys one moment, holding court with attendees the next and just generally being ... well, Jeff Goldblum.

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Having A Great Time, Wish You Were Queer: Jim (Harris Dickinson) in Steve McLean's stylized, whimsical Postcards From London.

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'Postcards From London': Rent Boys Will Be Rent Boys In A Stylized, Neon-Lit Soho

9:34pm November 08, 2018

by Ella Taylor

Writer/director Steve McLean's "lovely piece of whimsy" about a gay sex worker in 1970s London examines "the mixed blessings of sex, art, beauty and authenticity."

The Satanic Temple says a statue in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina bears too close a likeness to the temple's statue of Baphomet, shown here in Little Rock, Ark.

Satanists Sue Netflix, Warner Bros. For $150M, Saying 'Sabrina' Copied Their Statue

8:28pm November 08, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The Satanic Temple has used the statue to protest for freedom of religion. Now, it says the media giants have lifted its copyrighted design for a depiction of evil in the streaming series.

Hugh Jackman, and wig, play Gary Hart in Jason Reitman's The Front Runner.

Arts

'The Front Runner' Stumbles Into Familiar Territory

7:24pm November 08, 2018

by Scott Tobias

The film follows Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman) through his three-week presidential bid that fell victim to monkey business, but what director Jason Reitman brings to it is familiar — even quaint.

Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine) surveys his phalanx in Outlaw King.

Arts

In Netflix's War Epic 'Outlaw King' There's Plenty Of War, But Not Much That's Epic

5:00pm November 08, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

Director David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water) keeps the scale too small and the stakes too low in this retelling of the rebellion of Scotland's Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine).

"Welcome to my pallor, said the spider to the fly": Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) goes beyond the pale in The Girl in the Spider's Web.

Arts

'The Girl In The Spider's Web' Struggles To Break Free Of Techno-Thriller Cliches

5:00pm November 08, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

Claire Foy takes over the role of Swedish super-hacker Lisbeth Salander in a reboot that reheats stale ideas from many previous spy/hacker movies.

Haruki Murakami, appearing at Waseda University in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2018. The author was there to announce that he will donate his archives to the school, his alma mater.

Author Haruki Murakami Will Donate A Record Collection 'Beyond The Bounds Of Sanity'

3:14pm November 08, 2018

by Andrew Flanagan

Music is as intrinsic to the soul and spirit of Murakami's books as it is to the author's own.

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This 'Unholy Land' May Not Even Be Real

7:00am November 08, 2018

by Jason Sheehan

Lavie Tidhar's new novel asks the questions we've all asked occasionally: How sure are you that the world you see around you every day is real? How sure are you that it's the only one, the real one?