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For his follow-up to the tense and claustrophobic German middle school drama, The Teachers’ Lounge, director Ilker Çatak has attempted something both more ambitious and more mystifying: a tale of authoritarian oppression, artistic strife and family conflict that’s set in contemporary Turkey but was shot entirely in Germany, with no attempts to hide the fact…

The 1970s were a golden age of American cinema. Most movie buffs are familiar with an agreed narrative of how the decade happened: a new young generation of filmmakers, whose names became the stuff of legend — Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Francis Coppola, William Friedkin, Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, Brian De Palma, Terrence Malick —…

Production assistants on NBC’s Chicago Med have decided to unionize. Crew members on the long-running medical drama voted 11-1 to join Production Assistants United in a National Labor Relations Board election on Wednesday. The eligibility of five ballots were challenged and will be determined at a later date. “We’re not saying ‘fuck the studios,’ we…

Don Lemon has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from his reporting of a protest at a Minnesota church, setting up a case that could see free press and religious protections collide. Lemon entered his plea during a brisk court appearance on Friday, multiple outlets reported, after he was arrested last month in Los Angeles….

The 4th annual Aspen Snow Ball will be a major mother-daughter night out. The charity fundraiser, set for the St. Regis Aspen Resort on March 21, will fete Goldie Hawn with a Philanthropic Impact Achievement Award and find her reuniting with her daughter, the recently Oscar-nominated Kate Hudson, who will headline as the night’s musical…

The seductive opening sequence of Everybody Digs Bill Evans draws you in like a magnet. The improvised jazz drifting through the air at the Village Vanguard in New York on a summer night in 1961 — soft, caressing, mellow, smoky — is one thing. But the extraordinary communion shared by the musicians of the Bill…

A pretty unsuspecting element of Hanna Bergholm’s filmography lured Rupert Grint onto Nightborn. The British actor has kept a low profile since his career-making turn as the red-haired Ron Weasley in Warner Bros’ Harry Potter films. For a decade, he was a fixture of global cinema; a wand-wielding Gryffindor who became, alongside fellow Hogwarts alums…