LONDON (AP) — A painting by street artist Banksy with an environmental message and an estimate of up to 5 million pounds ($6.3 million) is going up for auction, with some of the proceeds helping victims of the Los Angeles wildfires. Sotheby's auction house said Tuesday that "Crude Oil ...
Celebrate Valentine's Day this year with "Captain America: Brave New World," a highly processed, empty calorie, regret-later candy of a movie. We're nearing the end of Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with predictable and underwhelming returns. "Captain America: Brave New World" ...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Carlos Diegues, the renowned Brazilian filmmaker, died Friday in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Academy of Letters said. He was 84. The director of more than 20 films, including "Xica da Silva" and "Bye Bye Brazil," Diegues was a leading figure in Cinema Novo, a movement ...
It's not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long been able to spot when Toronto has been substituted for the Big Apple. Matthew Rankin, though, has gone more than a step, or maybe 85 steps, further. His "Universal Language" takes place in Winnipeg, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Sarah Jessica Parker will be this year's recipient of PEN America's "Literary Service Award." The "Sex and the City" star, a longtime advocate for reading and literacy, will be honored May 15 at the free expression organization's annual spring gala. Jon Yaged, CEO of ...
In the movies, we've had green valleys, haunted hills and grand canyons. But only now has the time arrived for a long-overshadowed land formation. "The Gorge," a preposterous new videogame-like thriller, at least succeeds in, um, gorging on this often-overlooked geological feature. The gorge ...
