Category Archives: Variety

A judge ruled Friday that the Netflix show “Baby Reindeer” did not live up to its billing as a “true story,” allowing the real-life “Martha” to pursue her defamatio...

The devil is making them do it… or maybe it’s actually an exercise in divine justice. “Randy Newman’s Faust,” the only musical comedy ever written for the stage by the de...

“Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel, opened New York Film Festival’s 62nd edition on Friday night. The histori...

The Teamsters union reached a tentative deal Friday with the major studios on behalf of casting directors, who were seeking increased wages. The contract covers about 700 members. The union went into ...

"Killer Heat" is based on "The Jealousy Man," a short story by the hugely popular Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesb, and whatever intrigue it had on the page has been largely tamped down by the movie, ...

SPOILER ALERT: The following interview contains spoilers from "Chapter Fourteen," this week's episode of "Pachinko,' now streaming on AppleTV+. "It's been a very good week," says a smiling Anna S...

Some of the best boxers in the world are in the Big Apple for Top Rank Boxing. For the main event, British boxer Sandy Ryan (7-1-1) defends her WBO women’s welterweight title against vs. America...

"She always looks so extreme," a fellow teacher observes of Maggie Smith's trademark rigidity in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969), putting her finger on the straight-backed, nose-high hauteur au...

According to recent research from Amazon Ads, 72% of monthly streaming viewers want to see more authentic, cross-cultural stories in the media. That study, titled "Ads to Zeitgeist," examines why stre...

Less than a year after the Oct. 7 attack occurred, the first-ever scripted dramatization of the tragedy got a U.S. preview screening Thursday at the closing night of the second annual Scripted Israel ...