In Samba, the new French-language from directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, Omar Sy—most recently seen in a slew of big-budget action movies—takes on a quiet, affecting role as the titular character, an immigrant living in France and exhausting every avenue imaginable to obtain citizenship. He’s paired at ... More

The actual Stanford Prison Experiment, which divided 24 young men into “prisoners” and “guards” and studied what happened next, took place in 1971. Now, almost 45 years later a film on the study—The Stanford Prison Experiment, out this week—looks at what happened during that seven-day period and ... More

Jose Stern is going through a rough patch. In the new movie No Way Jose—out now on VOD—the 40-something Angeleno finds himself single, underemployed, desperate and wanted by the law. Thanks to writer, director and star Adam Goldberg, however, what could be a complete downer instead is a nuanced, touching and ... More

Corey Stoll could have slipped into any number of supervillain-appropriate costumes on his first day as the bad guy Yellowjacket in Ant-Man, the big-screen adaptation of the Marvel comic. Instead, he ended up hanging from the ceiling, wearing a skintight polka-dot one-piece.  “We did motion capture on my very first day,” ... More

Life is said to imitate art, but sometimes it happens the other way around. Alex Holdridge and Linnea Saasen, who co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in the romantic drama, Meet Me in Montenegro, based the movie on their own romance. After the pair met in Berlin, they fell in love and ... More

There’s something for every Nina Simone fan to take away from the new, Liz Garbus-directed Netflix release What Happened, Miss Simone? The film features a dizzying array of live performances, private photos, diary entries and interviews that serve to sketch an image of the complicated, incredibly talented singer and the ... More

Inspired by the boom in food-truck culture and their own love of movies, Heather Hope-Allison and her husband Steve decided to merge the two and Street Food Cinema was born. The Los Angeles-based festival is reinventing the movie-viewing experience by bringing together popular films, up-and-coming musical ... More

French photographer Brigitte Lacombe has teamed up with Phillips Auction House in New York to release a selling exhibition of photographs, Brigitte Lacombe: Complicities, for the first time in her storied 40-year career. The portraits (available in both black-and-white and color) capture intimate moments in the lives of Hollywood’s elite ... More

In the 40 years that Saturday Night Live has been on the air, the show has tackled almost every issue that’s been part of the national discussion. From pop-culture punching bags to political players, the subjects of the show’s gimlet eye haven’t just made us laugh, they've earned a place in history.  Now, SNL costume ... More

Vera Brittain’s 1933 book Testament of Youth, which charts her experiences as a young woman at Oxford (when that wasn’t a common thing) and her life as a nurse during World War One has become something of a classic. These days, it’s required reading for any number of school ... More