When the Netflix series “Wednesday” needed a guillotine recently, it did not have to venture far. A North Hollywood prop house called History for Hire had one available, standing more than eight feet high with a suitably menacing blade. (The business offers pillories too, but the show wasn’t in the …
Going viral during awards season is not necessarily a good thing. Look no further than the unearthed social media posts of “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón for the most extreme example of how an actor’s online behavior can sink a film’s chances. But in other cases social media can …
The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards were announced on Thursday morning and an unusually high number of them are still exclusively in theaters, including the best picture contenders “A Complete Unknown,” “The Brutalist,” “I’m Still Here” and “Nickel Boys.” But many more major nominees are currently a click away …
The James Mangold film “A Complete Unknown” entered theaters on Christmas Day as the first, or at least the most straightforward, biopic ever made about one of American pop culture’s most enduring yet perplexing figures: Bob Dylan, played by Timothée Chalamet. The movie traces the dramatic early years of Dylan’s …
The concert stage-to-Hollywood highway has been wide and inviting for decades. Everyone from Elvis and the Beatles to Madonna and Taylor Swift has journeyed down that road. But there’s something unique about Bob Dylan’s big-screen presence. He is Dylan the troubadour, Dylan the documentary subject, Dylan the car commercial star, …
