Jake Hoffman spent five years preparing to make Asthma, his smart, stark look at a troubled young New Yorker (the impressive newcomer Benedict Samuel) who steals a car and attempts to heal himself with a trip out of town, but when it came time to make the film—which Hoffman also directed—he ... More

Before music was available at the swipe of a screen, you’d have to look for the big yellow-and-red sign. Whether you were in Los Angeles, New York or several dozen cities across Japan, Tower Records was an internationally recognized destination for the world’s latest and greatest albums—that ... More

It’s rare to be a famous ballerina. Yes, some are well known in certain cultured circles and their talent is appropriately praised, but to be a household name is very unusual. Luckily, Misty Copeland made that leap—no pun intended. She is dancing on billboards for Under Armour, gracing the pages ... More

In Knock Knock, the enthralling new horror film by director Eli Roth, two young women (Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas) appear at the door of an architect (Keanu Reeves) whose family has gone away for the weekend. What follows is a tense, frightening game of cats-and-mouse that makes it clear ... More

In his new film Truth, director James Vanderbilt presents a story that actually played out on television. The movie follows newscaster Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes (played here by Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett) beginning in 2004 when the two began working on a ... More

Giorgio Armani’s Films of City Frames—a short-movie initiative launched last year in collaboration with Luxottica and Rai Cinema—has returned for 2015. The brand, a longtime patron of the arts, has joined forces with the 59th BFI London Film Festival to showcase four films directed by emerging talent from top ... More

Improvisation is an essential skill in any actor’s arsenal. And while Katherine Waterston readily admits her theatrical training has prepared her for all sorts of extemporaneous ad-libbing, the 35-year-old beauty’s latest role has her sticking closely to script.  In Steve Jobs, Waterston—whose big break came in last year’s Inherent ... More

It wasn’t really the end of the world, it was only New Zealand. Still, living somewhere in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, filming Z For Zachariah, a movie about life after a nuclear end of days, Chiwetel Ejiofor couldn’t help but consider how he himself would handle such circumstances. ... More

Something’s rotten in Fresno, California. Plenty of things, really. And in Addicted to Fresno, the sharp, dark new comedy from director Jamie Babbit, two down-on-their-luck sisters—played by Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer—find that matters can indeed get worse when, in the course of working their jobs cleaning a local ... More