Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones will serve as producers on a big-screen adaptation of The Color Purple musical. The musical is based on the 2005 Broadway show that put the Oscar-nominated 1985 film – itself an adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel by Alice Walker – to …
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For all the scholarship that exists on pop history, plenty of mysteries remain: Who killed Jam Master Jay; what precisely happened on the night of Sam Cooke’s death; and what exactly was the relationship between Johnny Cash and Richard Nixon? Netflix’s new ReMastereddocuseries seeks to investigate these and other tales …
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This stunning, slow-build thriller from South Korean director Lee Chang-dong sizzles with a cumulative power that will knock the wind out of you. Burning starts like a romance in the manner of The Talented Mr. Ripley as poor boy Jongsu, an aspiring writer played by Yoo Ah-in, falls under the …
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At first glance, you might mistake What They Had for one of those well-meaning family dramas about what to do when your mom is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. But that would discount the exceptional accomplishment achieved by debuting director Elizabeth Chomko, enlivening her scrappy script with a cast of actors who …
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Rupert Everett turns his fascination with Oscar Wilde, the 19th-century Irish poet and playwright who was persecuted and jailed for “gross indecency with men” (the word homosexual was never uttered), into a film of righteous anger, touching gravity and wicked Wildean wit. Having played the literary lion on stage in …
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Movie theaters would be wise to include Dramamine along with tickets purchased for Free Solo. Nausea-inducing in the most spectacular way, the new documentary chronicles rock climber Alex Honnold’s rope-less ascent in 2017 of Yosemite’s El Capitan, a vertical cliff face twice the height of the Empire State Building. The …
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A review of this week’s The Deuce coming up just as soon as we measure for drapes… “Don’t forget what you are.” -CC “Seven-Fifty” opens in similar territory to last week’s “There’s An Art To This,” with a pimp visiting a local transportation hub and being revealed as less confident …
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Yo! MTV Raps will go international in 2019 as the network announced plans to bring a “special, limited edition” version of the groundbreaking hip-hop show to MTV’s offshoots in Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa. A U.K. edition of Yo! MTV Raps will debut on September 25th, with versions centered on …
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Michael Myers goes on a killing spree on unsuspecting trick-or-treaters in the grisly new trailer for Halloween, the quasi-sequel to the 1978 horror classic. The first half of the latest preview plays out as an extended scene as Myers, costumed among the October 31st revelers, kills random victims, first with …
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Ah yes, the Fall Movie Season — when studios file away their summer flings with big-budget blockbusters and concentrate on the autumnal pleasures of prestige pics and tony, based-on-a-true-story dramas. At least, that’s how things used to work. Now, you get big-name superhero epics and brand-tested I.P. spectacles all year …
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