Jane Powell, Hollywood golden-age musicals star, dies at 92
LOS ANGELES — Jane Powell, the bright-eyed, operatic-voiced star of Hollywood's golden age musicals who sang with Howard Keel in “Seven Brides for Seven...
Review: Drag queen dreams in ‘Talking About Jamie’
“Everybody’s Talking About Jamie,” a predictable and glossy...
Jessica Chastain redeems a televangelist in ‘Tammy Faye’
NEW YORK — In the nearly 10 years it took for Jessica Chastain to get made a film about the Christian televangelist Tammy Faye...
Film financier gets 13 years in prison for $60M fraud scheme
MIAMI — A South Florida man claiming to be a film financier was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison for running a scheme...
Alanis Morissette blasts documentary ‘Jagged’ as ‘salacious’
NEW YORK — Just hours before the HBO documentary “Jagged” was to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday, Alanis Morissette...
Review: With empathy, Chastain plays Tammy Faye Bakker
Tammy Faye Bakker wore a lot of makeup. It was armor — a way for a person who didn’t consider herself beautiful to simply...
Rio favela kids get free movie after pandemic hardships
RIO DE JANEIRO — As the sun went down on the Vila Cruzeiro favela on Monday, bathing this working class neighborhood in Rio de...
Dionne Warwick, star of a new documentary, keeps smiling
The first standing ovation Dionne Warwick ever received was as a 6-year-old, when her reverend grandfather brought her up to the pulpit of the...
‘RBG’ filmmakers find a rich vein: Feminist love stories
The label “date movie” hasn't traditionally been applied much to documentaries but filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen have twice now made non-fiction films...
Police appeal order to turn over documents in 2010 cold case
MADISON, Conn. — Police in a wealthy Connecticut town where the 2010 killing of Barbara Hamburg remains unsolved are fighting a judge's order to...