video Disney vs Comcast: Which content king should investors buy? CFRA director, equity research Kenneth Leon and New Street Research managing partner Jonathan Chaplin debate whether Disney or rival Comcast is the better stock for investors to hold on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ Subscribers to Walt Disney Co.'s flagship Disney+ streaming service barely blinked at a 38% price increase that the […]
Read moreA.O. Scott conducts his own exit interview as he moves to a new post after more than two decades of reviewing films. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott started as a film critic at The New York Times […]
Read moreDavid Brendan Ruttura and Katherine Julia Travis met in October 2014 in New York while working on the national tour of “The Phantom of the Opera.” Ms. Travis, who goes by Katie, was playing the role of Christine Daaé and Mr. Ruttura was the resident director. They were friends for more than a year before they began dating, but each […]
Read moreThe latest film from Zhang Yimou weaves slapstick fun into an investigation of a 12th-century political murder. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Brandon Yu Nearly everyone in China is familiar with “Full River Red,” a wistful, jingoistic poem by the 12th-century […]
Read moreIt was a dark Saturday night last month on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where Saturday nights can get very dark, but Sabrina Brier, in a rhinestone necklace and strapless plaid pantsuit, was agleam onstage at a basement comedy club called Caveat warming up the crowd. “You’re the butter, I’m the microwave,” she announced. That particular joke passed quickly, […]
Read morevideo Former Walmart CEO sounds off on US economy: ‘We have to get this inflation under control’ Former Walmart U.S. CEO Bill Simon joined ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss the nationwide spike in layoffs that have now extended beyond the Big Tech industry. Walmart is pledging to give Easter shoppers some relief as high inflation continues to put pressure […]
Read moreThe Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro and the nominated actress Cate Blanchett were among several participants at the Academy Awards on Sunday who donned blue ribbons in support of refugees who fled their homes to escape war, conflict and persecution. As part of the #WithRefugees initiative, the United Nations Refugee Agency invited del Toro, Blanchett, best actor nominee Bill Nighy, […]
Read more“I know it looks like I’m standing up here by myself, but I am not. I am hundreds of people,” she said in her acceptance speech. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Kyle Buchanan After a tight three-way race, “Everything Everywhere All […]
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Roger Deakins, legendary cinematographer and knight of the British realm, cut to the chase: In his view several of the best examples of cinematography are missing from this year’s Oscars list. “The best cinematography hasn’t been nominated,” he tells me at the British consul general’s Oscars reception. Which film I ask? “It’s The Batman.That’s the best work in my view,” he says […]
Read moreThe life of a scholar used to be simpler, with success or failure whittled down to an easy dictum: “Publish or perish.” Today it’s more like publish and podcast or perish. “The definition of ‘public intellectual’ has really changed, and I’m proud to be a part of that,” Natalia Mehlman Petrzela said, moments after delivering a lecture to a class […]
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