David Sims

Conan O’Brien’s peak moment of triumph at the Academy Awards earlier this month followed one of his spicier jokes. “Anora uses the F-word 479 times,” the late-night veteran and first-time Oscar host said of the eventual Best Picture winner. “That’s […]

The new film Black Bag transposes a timeless spy-thriller premise into the story of a marriage. Focus Features March 15, 2025, 8:30 AM ET Steven Soderbergh films are like buses: There’s always another one coming. This isn’t a complaint, exactly,

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. An eephus pitch is one of baseball’s many pieces of niche ephemera. It’s a weird trick throw that’s barely ever glimpsed

The director Bong Joon-ho’s new movie, Mickey 17, at first seems like a major pivot from his previous one, 2019’s Parasite. After winning Best Picture at the Oscars for the domestic (if gonzo) Korean black comedy, he’s following it up

Even the most mundane moments are riveting in the new deep-sea drama film Last Breath. Focus Features March 3, 2025, 4:45 PM ET The biggest compliment I can give Last Breath, a gripping, workmanlike new movie about an undersea rescue,

The director Sean Baker probably didn’t predict this outcome  while he was filming Anora, his latest small-budget indie project, in the snowy Brooklyn neighborhood of Brighton Beach—that a couple years later, he’d be accepting Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

In 1956, an aspiring young actor named Gene Hackman joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California, struggling to find a way into a field he’d been fascinated with since childhood. Hackman, who was born in 1930, had already served five years

With last year’s slow-roll Oppenheimer sweep, the leading Oscar contenders seemed to have sewn up their wins long before the ceremony began. This edition of the Academy Awards has been quite the compelling scramble by comparison, as half a dozen

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Last year, the writer-director Oz Perkins released a film called Longlegs that was a surprise critical and box-office smash. It was

This may sound like a hopelessly naive thought about a superhero movie, but Captain America: Brave New World presented an exciting opportunity. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, now on its 35th entry, has probably been exhausted at this point, yet the