Television
In Screen Gab no. 149, we catch up with ‘Challengers,’ now streaming on Prime Video, speak with the man behind Colin Farrell’s prosthetics in ‘The Penguin’ and more.
Sept. 20, 2024
Movies
With ‘Will & Harper,’ the ‘SNL’ star and his friend Harper Steele face a new twist on an old challenge in LGBTQ+ representation: How to educate cis viewers without alienating trans ones.
Lifestyle
A Sunday at Circus Vargas in California begins with a Mass from Father Frank Cancro and ends with performer Daniel Eguino riding a motorcycle in the Globe of Death.
Sept. 19, 2024
Also this week: Leonard Maltin presents 1930s Universal rarities, ‘Rhythm Thief’ restored, Haile Gerima’s new documentary and a double-bill of Alain Delon’s beauty.
Entertainment & Arts
“Silents Synced,” a new series pairing classic films with alternative rock, launches with “Nosferatu X Radiohead” at American Cinematheque.
Sara Porkalob stars in “Dragon Lady” at Geffen Playhouse, a solo show about her grandmother, a lounge singer who escaped a gangster-controlled nightclub in Manila before coming to the United States.
Sept. 14, 2024
Books
Pedro Almodóvar’s first book consists of a mix of short stories and personal essays that amount to ‘a fragmentary autobiography.’
Sept. 16, 2024
Also this week: A new 35mm print of ‘Shampoo,’ a 4K restoration of ‘Paris, Texas,’ ‘Mi Vida Loca,’ a generous Beyond Fest lineup, news about Sundance and more.
Sept. 13, 2024
California
As fire season lengthens and intensifies across the West, the pilots who do the grueling, sometimes deadly work of aerial firefighting are in high demand.
Sept. 3, 2024
The success at the summer box office comes as the nation’s entertainment industry faces a brutal slump.
Aug. 31, 2024