Darkness engulfs me right before I step into a dream. The Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu guides me from a pitch-black hallway into an open space, where beams of …
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Inside Warner Bros.’s Oscar success with ‘Sinners,’ ‘Weapons,’ ‘One Battle’
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPam Abdy and Mike De Luca, co-chairs and chief executive officers of the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, are posing for a photo in the Scenic Loft on the studio’s …
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‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ finale: Ira Parker on Egg’s big lie
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThis story contains spoilers for Episode 6 of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.” Ira Parker intended the very last scene of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Episode 6 …
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‘Midwinter Break’ review: Ciarán Hinds and Lesley Manville on tense vacation
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesWe used to have more films like “Midwinter Break,” in which the combination of a couple of great actors, a gifted writer and the unfussy shepherding of a thorny, intimate …
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Reviewing all the 2026 Oscar short films: What should win?
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe nominated Oscar shorts come in three categories — and a lot of subjects, styles and temperaments. It’s further proof that an award dictated by length needn’t be bound by …
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Danny Boyle’s apocalyptic ‘Sunshine,’ plus the best movies in L.A.
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesHello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. This week we lost two towering figures with the deaths …
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Willie Colón, a legendary trombonist and pioneer of salsa music, has died. He was 75. His death on Saturday was confirmed in a Facebook post by his longtime manager, Pietro …
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Snoop Dogg embraces his growing NBC Olympic ambassador of joy role
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesMILAN — He’s as smooth as a bobsled track and sharp as a skate blade. Snoop Dogg, the rap rapscallion who puts the OG in Olympic Games, plopped down on a couch …
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Harper Simon on his ‘Thinking Out Loud’ interview book
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesOur present podcast era has bred a new generation of interlocutors from the public sphere, veteran interviewees turned journalists. Harper Simon is among the many pro musicians who have taken …
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Punch: Baby monkey makes us laugh, cry, see ourselves in his struggle
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis Jones“I am Punch and he is me.” This is what my daughter recently texted in our family group chat. Her older sister had just asked us if we were “on …