Entertainment

The US Justice Department is suing several large landlords for allegedly coordinating to keep Americans’ rents high by using both an algorithm to help set rents and privately sharing sensitive information with their competitors to boost profits. The lawsuit arrives as US renters continue to struggle under a merciless housing market, with incomes failing to … Read more

Kate Middleton will have a slow start to the year, according to a new report. The Princess of Wales, who turns 43 Thursday, will ease into 2025 by taking on a fraction of the public-facing duties that she would typically have on her calendar. Sources told the Daily Mail that the mom of three “simply … Read more

Supporters of Donald Trump clash with police as they attempt to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Brent Stirton / Getty Images) To the editor: On Monday, Jan. 6, Congress certified the result of the 2024 election. It took all of 35 minutes. It was quiet, serious and serene. However, it was reported … Read more

Daniel Craig’s 007 capers dominate his top-grossing films Now firmly in his post-Bond era, Daniel Craig has received strong reviews and early awards-season traction for his lead performance in Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer,” an adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novella that is worlds apart from the British actor’s earlier capers as the martini-loving Agent 007. “Queer,” … Read more

Why lensing ‘September 5’ was so liberating (and challenging) for Markus Förderer Markus Förderer quickly understood the challenge of lensing “September 5”: The movie about the ABC sports journalists covering the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics had to cover 22 hours in 90 minutes of screen time and feel … Read more

‘How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’ is no comic romp but a touching Thai drama “Lahn Mah,” a small comic drama about a young man trying to wheedle his way into his dying grandmother’s good graces for a possible inheritance and accidentally growing up along the way, is a huge hit in its home … Read more

Visual poetry through music Timothée Chalamet portrays Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown,” a rhythmic biopic unpacking his rise to rock ’n’ roll stardom. The spark behind his musical journey is the “Freewheelin’” singer’s decision to uproot from his Minnesota hometown for New York to play a song he wrote for folk icon … Read more

Looking at the front-runners in the Oscar races for animated feature, international film and documentary, I’d guess you’ve seen two of the three movies leading their respective categories. DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot” arrived at the end of September, three weeks after the rapturous reception it received at its Toronto International Film Festival premiere. It … Read more

Why Magnus von Horn avoided making ‘The Girl With the Needle’ seem too realistic Magnus von Horn never wanted to make a biopic of a serial killer: The Poland-based filmmaker finds that morally strange. But when he was approached to direct a film about Dagmar Overbye, a Danish woman who killed at least nine babies … Read more

Kat Dennings and Tim Allen star as an estranged father and daughter in the sitcom “Shifting Gears,” premiering Wednesday on ABC. (Mike Taing /Disney) Welcome Tim Allen back to the land of multicamera sitcom, for a third run in a form that has treated him well. “Home Improvement” ran for eight seasons on ABC and … Read more