‘broadchurch’ Finale Offers A Bittersweet, If Convoluted, End

The music gives the film shape and propulsion. But so does the way that Macdonald, keying off Lennon’s TV habit, presents images of the period as an ongoing channel-surfing montage.

Major League Baseball’s Playoffs are officially here, starting with the Wild Card Series on Tuesday, Oct. 1.  Now that the regular season is concluded, eight teams will fight for four spots in the Division Series. This week, eyes are on the Detroit Tigers as the team takes on the Houston Astros and the Kansas City Royals […]

As technology continues to evolve, the arts and humanities are having a reckoning, and it’s not pretty. In his newest play, “McNeal,” Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar (“Disgraced”) confronts the ethics of AI, plagiarism and ownership in storytelling. Directed by Bartlett Sher, the play centers on Jacob McNeal (Robert Downey Jr.

Nonfiction streaming platform Documentary+ has acquired River Finlay’s documentary short “Eat Flowers.” The Oscar-qualified film will debut on major streamers and the Documentary+ Fast channel on Wednesday. According to an official logline, “Eat Flowers” picks up in 2017 “as photographer Cig Harvey’s best friend Mary is diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia.

“Inside Out 2” hit 30.5 million views in its first five days of streaming on Disney+, where it premiered on Sept. 25. This makes the Pixar film not only Disney+’s biggest film premiere of 2024, but its biggest premiere for a theatrical film since 2021, when “Encanto” debuted. Additionally, this is the service’s biggest ever […]

Indonesia’s KawanKawan Media has unveiled the trailer for “Tale of the Land,” the directorial debut of Loeloe Hendra, which has been selected for the New Currents competition at the 2024 Busan International Film Festival. The film, set on the island of Borneo, is described as a coming-of-age journey inspired by indigenous communities grappling with land […]