Movies
One of the most touching acceptance speeches at the 2015 Academy Awards came from adapted screenplay winner Graham Moore, who took his 45 seconds on stage to encourage kids to “stay weird, stay different.”
Feb. 23, 2015
Harvey Weinstein’s Oscar campaign playbook has been much imitated over the years — and with “The Imitation Game,” he is pulling it out once again.
Feb. 21, 2015
“The Imitation Game” on Saturday evening won the 27th USC Libraries Scripter Award, honoring the best adapted screenplay of the year.
Feb. 1, 2015
If you care about involving cinema, the career of actor Benedict Cumberbatch, or both, a holiday visit to the smartly entertaining “The Imitation Game” and its look at the life of Alan Turing is inevitable.
Dec. 3, 2014
The disturbing, involving, always-complex story of British mathematician Alan Turing is a tale crafted to resonate for our time, and the smartly entertaining “The Imitation Game” gives it the kind of crackerjack cinematic presentation that’s pure pleasure to experience.
Nov. 26, 2014
Benedict Cumberbatch takes on another brilliant but troubled mind in the new trailer for “The Imitation Game,” a biopic about the British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing.
July 21, 2014
Alan Turing, the pioneering British mathematician who cracked Nazi Germany’s Enigma code and helped win World War II, gets the deciphering treatment himself in the new biopic “The Imitation Game” (opening today in limited release).
Nov. 28, 2014
Entertainment & Arts
Benedict Cumberbatch does some mean impressions, and by mean, we mean uncanny and hilarious.
Nov. 14, 2014
One of the most important characters in “The Imitation Game” doesn’t say a word.
Nov. 27, 2014
In the Oscar-nominated movie “The Imitation Game,” a group of young British mathematicians is tasked with cracking the German Engima machine, the cipher device that the Nazis used to encrypt and decrypt war communications.
Jan. 22, 2015