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WATCH IT: Bradley Cooper conducts his latest Oscar hopeful, Maestro A new directing star was born when Bradley Cooper’s 2018 remake of A Star Is Born shot to the top of the box office charts. Now, the actor returns behind the camera with a long-gestating biopic about famed Jewish American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Cooper directs and stars in …

Five years after A Star Is Born scored eight Oscar nominations, Bradley Cooper is back in the awards race with Netflix’s Maestro — his sophomore effort as a director-star, as well as his second movie set in the music world. This time, the actor plays a real-life music titan, Jewish American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, whose storied career included …

WATCH IT: Godzilla Minus One offers the most terrifying version yet It’s good to be Godzilla. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is currently stomping up a storm at Apple TV+, following the ongoing antics of the Americanized “Monsterverse” version. Not to be outdone, the kaiju keepers at Japan’s Toho Studios have unleashed the greatest cinematic incarnation yet of the radioactive reptile …

It wasn’t that Da’Vine Joy Randolph had never witnessed Alexander Payne’s cinematic works. She simply was oblivious to Alexander Payne’s identity. “Embarrassingly enough, this is the sequence of events,” the 37-year-old thespian recounts her tale about the initial encounter with the illustrious writer-director, celebrated for productions such as Election, Sideways and The Descendants, for his most recent piece, The Holdovers. …

Reginald Hudlin is well aware of the intense rivalry within the holiday film arena. Creating a standout festive flick, the experienced filmmaker elaborates, means “you’re not just up against an array of exceptional movies, but every single year at least 30 new competitors emerge. And that’s me being modest with the number 30. There are the Hallmark productions. Every major …

Surpassing 35 years since its debut in July of 1988, the answer to one of the festive season’s most hotly contested queries – whether Die Hard is a Yuletide film – might have been unearthed. For generations, spectators have eagerly debated the classification of the thriller detailing the saga of an off-duty detective, John McClane (Bruce Willis), who finds himself …

STREAM IT: See how the Midwest is changing one family at a time in a new Hulu doc America’s Midwest is often thought of as a conservative-dominated monolith, but that’s steadily — if slowly — changing. You can see that change happening in Hulu’s new documentary, We Live Here: The Midwest, which spends time with multiple LGBTQ+ families who are …