Perhaps the most incredible scene in “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” the recent documentary about Mr. Rogers, features Mr. Rogers meeting Koko, the beloved western lowland gorilla. Koko, who died in her sleep this week, at forty-six, was known for Read More …
The film “O.G.,” set and shot in a prison in Indiana, using inmates and guards as cast and crew, had its première on Friday night, as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. I visited the production for six days, in Read More …
“Sports can be an opportunity for some of the world’s most talented to leap to their freedom,” the artist Mark Ulriksen says, about his cover this week, inspired by the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Read our coverage of Read More …
Wes Anderson’s new film “Isle of Dogs,” a comedic drama realized with stop-motion animation (like his film “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” from 2009) is both a persuasive argument for big-screen viewing and for watching at home via streaming or a disk Read More …
In America, when a police-involved killing is caught on camera, the ensuing news coverage often omits a key voice─that of the victim. But, two days after the Pittsburgh-area police officer Michael Rosfeld fatally shot Antwon Rose, an unarmed seventeen-year-old black Read More …
The main character in the new comedy “I Feel Pretty” isn’t the one onscreen whom its star, Amy Schumer, works hard to invest with the energy and inspiration that are missing from the script. Rather, it’s a virtual woman imagined Read More …
Thanks to hip-hop and Hollywood, the United States is still the world’s leading cultural exporter. But, in recent years, American culture has increasingly been following a playbook made in Japan. Consider the fascination with “the Japanese art of decluttering.” Its Read More …
“Pose” (airing Sundays, on FX) is set in New York City, in the late nineteen-eighties, amid the ballroom culture immortalized by the documentary “Paris Is Burning.” To walk in a ball is to work it. Vying to sashay into renown Read More …
I was first made aware of Beth Stern’s cat-rescue work through a children’s book she wrote, which I gave to my daughter about three years ago. In “Yoda: The Story of a Cat and His Kittens,” the titular feline, a Read More …
A few weeks ago, I spent time with a woman my age who, like me, was born here in Southern California, grew up with many siblings and not much money, and received an annual pair of ungainly Toughskins jeans, from Read More …