We know we said something similar last year, but 2025 gave us an abundance of fantastic films about the Latino/Latin American experience— from absurdist metafictions involving doppelgängers to a documentary …
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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’: James Cameron explains Varang, Quaritch pact
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesFire replaces water as the elemental character in James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash.” It’s even weaponized by Varang (Oona Chaplin), the ruthless leader of the volcano-dwelling Ash People, in …
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Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar for directing. Neither did Stanley Kubrick nor Robert Altman nor Sidney Lumet nor Federico Fellini nor Orson Welles. It’s a group almost as distinguished …
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James Ransone dead: Star of ‘The Wire,’ ‘It: Chapter Two’ was 46
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesJames Ransone, a character actor who played an impulsive, drug-dealing dockworker in the iconic HBO series “The Wire” and later appeared in horror films “Sinister” and “It: Chapter Two,” died …
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Nicki Minaj takes stage with Erika Kirk, praises Trump and mocks Newsom
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesFireworks lit the stage and the audience roared as pop star Nicki Minaj walked out hand-in-hand with Erika Kirk Sunday in a surprise appearance at Turning Point USA’s annual convention …
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Phil Wickham has released 14 Christian worship albums, has been Platinum certified and nominated for American Music Awards, Dove Awards, Billboard Music Awards and Grammys — but all of his …
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‘SNL’ recap: Bowen Yang says goodbye with help from Ariana Grande
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesJust a little over a year after an all-time performance as “Saturday Night Live” host (one of the best of that season, truth be told), Ariana Grande returned again to …
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Remembering Rob Reiner, plus the best movies this week 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. The shocking deaths this week of Rob Reiner and Michele …
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Remembering Rob Reiner, ‘Emily in Paris’ returns for Season 5
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesWelcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who wants to spend some time revisiting Rob Reiner’s indelible mark on pop culture. For many of us, it was already that …
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Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida on ‘Three Stories of Forgetting’
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesWhat do fallen empires leave behind? Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s new work of fiction attempts to answer that question. “Three Stories of Forgetting” probes the inner worlds of three men …