No ‘Black Widow’ or ‘F9’ leaves a muted summer movie season
LOS ANGELES — The six-year fan campaign for a standalone Black Widow movie was paying off: at long last, a film would put Scarlett Johansson’s popular Avenger front and center. And, like many of Marvel’s biggest spectacles, it was set to open the weekend of May 1. “Black Widow” ...
Tribeca programs drive-in series for films, sports and music
LOS ANGELES — Tribeca is taking audiences back to the drive-in this summer. Tribeca Enterprises, IMAX and AT&T said Wednesday that they are partnering to launch “Tribeca Drive-In,” a summer programming series of new and classic films, music and sporting events. It’ll take place in ...
‘If It Bleeds’ gives Stephen King fans 4 new stories
I like to think of Stephen King as a high-paid starting pitcher. Between starts — bestselling novels often thick enough to be doorstops — he works in the bullpen, writing novellas. Over the years, many of those have been made into movies that are now essential parts of the King canon like ...
A grim story freshly told in gang tale ‘Blue Story’
War is futile. War is a waste. War lays ruin to generations of promising young people. It’s the message of so many war films, but even more when the war in question is not between nations but between urban gangs — youths killing each other over petty grievances and turf battles that mean ...
