There's no "June Gloom" for Netflix this year. Not only are we getting a new Jennifer Lopez/Brett Goldstein rom-com, Office ...

The director of 'Cloud' and 'Cure' returns to Cannes with a period piece set in 16th-century feudal Japan, when warring ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

Betty Carr and her husband built a revered homemade pie business in Sebastopol that became a mainstay on holiday tables.

A tortured filmmaker writes — and re-writes — a screenplay about a tortured filmmaker in this satisfying late-career gem from ...

The all-singing, all-dancing song contest landed last week, and as Sara Darling experiences the city for the first time, she asks if Europe’s campest event can reinvigorate it – or whether Vienna has ...

The new series brings one of the most enduring samurai franchises to live-action life on streaming.

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The samurai of Japan are famous for being skilled warriors who followed a code of honor. In popular culture and museums, samurai are often depicted as men, which raises a question: Were any samurai ...

Is it better for a historical film to be accurate or to be meaningful? Do films need a surrogate outsider for audiences to relate to? Why is Tom Cruise the last samurai? Spoiler … he isn’t. Cinema ...