Not My Job: We Quiz Composer Michael Giacchino On Decomposition
We invite the composer beind the Star Wars and Star Trek soundtracks to play a game called "Just like composing, but it goes the other way."
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Actress Carrie Fisher Reportedly In Stable Condition After Entering Cardiac Arrest
Both the Los Angeles City Fire Department and United Airlines say a passenger aboard a flight from London was unresponsive. Multiple media reports claim it was the Star Wars actress.
'Daniel Blake' Skewers The Red Tape Bureaucracy Of England's Health System
British director Ken Loach is both an award-winning filmmaker and a social activist. His latest film combines those impulses
For Film's Creators, 'Moonlight' Provided Space To Explore A Painful Past
Playwright Tarell McCraney and filmmaker Barry Jenkins drew on their childhood experiences in making Moonlight, about a boy growing up in a Miami housing project. Originally broadcast Oct. 19, 2016.
Scorsese's 'Silence': A Clash of Cultures — And Creeds — In 16th Century Japan
Two Portuguese priests travel to Japan to find their mentor in Martin Scorsese's fairly conventional historical drama, which our critic calls "the director's most punishing film since Raging Bull."
'Passengers' Has A First-Class Sci-Fi Premise, But The Script Flies Coach
The Chris Pratt/Jennifer Lawrence film about two beautiful people alone on a vast spaceship doesn't have the courage of its creepy convictions, and devolves into rote rom-com sentiment.
Sex And Death, Shot Through A Colorful Lens: Almodovar's 'Julieta'
Pedro Almodovar brings his lush visual exuberance to this adaptation of three Alice Munro stories marked by spare, interior struggles. The odd fusion results in a surprisingly quiet, somber film.
In Mike Mills' Rich, Brilliant Comedy, Three '20th Century Women' Raise A Teenager
Our critic adores this small, sharply observed film starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning and Greta Gerwig as boarding-house residents who shape the life of a young man (Lucas Jade Zumann) in 1979.
The 'Hidden Figures' Who Crunched The Numbers In The Space Race
Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer star in this drama about the brilliant African-American women whose mathematical skills NASA eagerly exploited ... without publicly acknowledging.
Charles Aidikoff, Who Ran Popular LA Screening Room, Dies
Hollywood insiders mourn the death of 101-year-old Charles Aidikoff, who ran one of the most popular small, private screening rooms in Los Angeles.