Category Archives: Variety

The Venice Film Festival kicked off the fall festival season in style this week, with premieres of anticipated new movies like “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” “Babygirl” and “...

There is a great deal more hagiography than history in "Reagan," a worshipful biopic of the 40th U.S. President that often plays like the cinematic equivalent of CliffsNotes, or one of those compact p...

Special Occasion Studios and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced Thursday a partnership with the new feature documentary film, "Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln." Opening Sept...

Even without the "Welcome to Marathon" flyer that greets Katerina (Angeliki Papoulia) and Yannis (Vangelis Mourikis) upon their arrival in “Arcadia,” it’s clear that they’ve en...

Winona Ryder said in a new interview with Esquire magazine that she felt blacklisted by Miramax in “the late 1990s and early 2000s” due to “various reasons,” one of which was a...

Five years separate the two halves of “Super Happy Forever,” a delicate, unassuming but subtly complex love story in reverse that doesn’t dart between timelines, instead offering the...

Luis Ortega's absurdist comedy “Kill the Jockey,” which plays in Venice competition, is set in Argentina’s horse-racing community. “It’s a wild, wild world,” he tel...

One of the most intense experiences of the summer will soon be streaming. M. Night Shyamalan’s “Trap” is a moderate hit taking in more than $72.1 million at the worldwide box office ...

Angelina Jolie wowed Venice on Thursday evening with her depiction of opera icon Maria Callas in Pablo Larran’s “Maria,” earning an eight-minute standing ovation. The star weeped as ...

To be a jockey is to be both athlete and adjunct. While the horse gets the glory, its human partner is a literal hanger-on: ostensibly in control, but subject to animal impulses. That paradox allows R...