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"I really needed an actress for Florence who could have vulnerability but also reserve," Rees (L) says. "... And I knew that Mary (R) had that."

Dee Rees And Mary J. Blige Dug Into Their Roots To Make 'Mudbound'

1:02am February 11, 2018

by Michel Martin

The director and singer/actress both drew upon their families' history to make the Oscar-nominated film. "I think I'm always exploring this idea about the battle being bloodier at home," Rees says.

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Jóhann Jóhannsson at the 2015 BAFTAs, where he was nominated for the music he composed for the film The Theory of Everything.

Music & Culture

Oscar-Nominated Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson Dies At 48

2:27pm February 10, 2018

by Otis Hart

The renowned film composer, who scored Arrival and The Theory of Everything, died Friday in Berlin, Germany.

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Arts

Clint Eastwood Celebrates Old-Fashioned Heroism In 'The 15:17 To Paris'

4:04pm February 09, 2018

by David Edelstein

In 2015, three Americans on a Paris-bound train stopped a terrorist attack in progress. Eastwood recreates the incident — and audaciously casts the real-life heroes as themselves — in his new film.

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In 'Basmati Blues,' Brie Larson Plays A White Savior. Indians Are Annoyed

2:28pm February 09, 2018

by Kamala Thiagarajan

There's Bollywood-style singing, dancing and a scene of the Oscar-winning actress riding a white horse. Indians are calling out its stereotypes and cliched portrayals of their customs and culture.

Jill Messick, at the premiere of Hot Rod in Los Angeles in 2007, "was victimized by our new culture of unlimited information sharing and a willingness to accept statement as fact," her family said.

Jill Messick, Hollywood Producer Embroiled In Weinstein Scandal, Dies By Suicide

11:45am February 09, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Messick had been a manager for actress Rose McGowan in 1997, when McGowan says Weinstein raped her. "She became collateral damage in an already horrific story," the family says.

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows, from left, Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler and Spencer Stone in a scene from The 15:17 to Paris.

World News

Lawyer Says Film '15:17 To Paris' Would Prejudice Train Attack Jury

7:56am February 09, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The Clint Eastwood film depicts three American tourists, played by themselves, who in 2015 subdued a Kalashnikov-wielding attacker aboard a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris.

Naomi (Emily Browning) plays an assistant living in Brooklyn in Golden Exits, a film exploring the disappointments and desires of both the young and the old.

Arts

We Have Met The Anomie, And It Is Us: 'Golden Exits'

5:01pm February 08, 2018

by Scott Tobias

Young, directionless Brooklynites have their lives (slightly) complicated by the arrival of a beautiful young woman (Emily Browning) in Alex Ross Perry's "precociously fretful" new film.

L.B. Williams plays Mose Wright, the uncle of Emmett Till, in the Oscar-nominated short film My Nephew Emmett.

Arts

Reviewed: This Year's 5 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Short Films

5:00pm February 08, 2018

by Ella Taylor

This year's nominees include a sobering and deeply personal drama about the impact of an infamous lynching and a light farce that probes the divide between psychiatrist and patient.

Dear Basketball is an animated ode to Kobe Bryant's 20-year NBA career. It's one of five animated shorts up for an Oscar this year.

Arts

Reviewed: This Year's 5 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films

5:00pm February 08, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

A plague of frogs, a sentient lost-and-found, a poignant father-son story, a mordant Roald Dahl fairy tale and Kobe Bryant's ode to basketball are up for the animated short film Oscar this year.

Arunachalam Muruganatham poses with actor Akshay Kumar, who portrays him in the new film Pad Man. It's a biopic about Muruganatham's quest to invent a machine that could make low-cost sanitary napkins.

Health & Safety

'Pad Man' Is A Bollywood Movie About A Man And His Menstrual Pads

12:17pm February 08, 2018

by Kamala Thiagarajan

It's the real-life story of a tinkerer obsessed with manufacturing low-cost sanitary napkins. And it even has songs.