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
Letters to the Editor
A beekeeper of 40 years says PETA’s insistence that harvesting surplus honey from beehives amounts to theft ignores the science of food production.
Sept. 17, 2024
Hollywood Inc.
The Black List is known for highlighting unproduced screenplays and vaulting titles like ‘Spotlight’ and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ into the zeitgeist. It’s now expanding into fiction.
Sept. 4, 2024
Movies
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
Two Jude Law movies, a career-best performance by Pamela Anderson, the return of Mike Leigh and more were among our favorite first-time watches at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Sept. 12, 2024
Among the titles that have our writing staff stoked: “Gladiator II,” “Wicked,” “Joker: Folie à Deux,” “Blitz,” “Anora,” “We Live in Time” and “The Apprentice.”
Sept. 6, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
Sept. 7, 2024
California
The success at the summer box office comes as the nation’s entertainment industry faces a brutal slump.
Aug. 31, 2024
Pressman Film, the studio behind “Thank You for Smoking” and “American Psycho,” is looking to raise funds for its upcoming development slate through crowd investing, a twist on a tactic used by other producers.
Sept. 5, 2024
Stockton’s McLeod Lake turned pink this week, as scientists dumped dye in the hope of figuring out why there are toxic algal blooms some years but not others.
Aug. 29, 2024