For as long as there have been movies, there have been women making them. When the Lumière brothers were shocking audiences with their unbelievable depiction of a running train, Alice Guy-Blaché was pioneering her own techniques in the brand-new artform. When D.W. Griffith was pioneering advances in the art, and building his own studio to make his work, Lois Weber was doing, well, the exact same thing. When Hollywood was deep in its Golden Age, Dorothy Arzner, Dorothy Davenport, Tressie Souders, and many more women were right there, making their own films....

As it turned out, the same filmmaker who excelled at disorienting viewers with the intense psychedelic provocations “Enter the Void” and “Climax” had pulled off another trick: The photo was over a year old. Noé survived the hemorrhage shortly before the pandemic hit, a one-two punch that brought the Paris-based director closer than ever to his own mortality and led him to make his most personal film. Noé’s very name has been associated with subversive filmmaking gambles for nearly 20 years, going back to when “Irreversible” premiered at Cannes in 2002....

Directed by genre filmmaker Adam Wingard and written by Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein, “Godzilla vs. Kong” has been wrapped, at least production-wise, for nearly two years. It was originally slated to open in November last year but, like every other tentpole movie in the pipeline, was pushed into 2021 due to the pandemic. “Godzilla vs. Kong” combines the former character created by Japan’s Toho, and the latter character created by Edgar Wallace and Merian C....

On the other hand, we tend to be wary of happiness when it stays. Personal experience demands a certain level of distrust for anything that doesn’t sour. Butter might go bad after a month or two, but there’s a reason why people are suspicious of margarine. There’s a reason why nobody wants to sit next to that guy who’s smiling to himself on the subway. There’s a reason why Tom (Joel McHale) and Janet (Kerry Bishé) — a cartoonishly attractive married couple whose honeymoon phase has just entered its 14th year — make everyone else in their Los Angeles friend group so uncomfortable....

“Everyone knows Heath was a user of prescription drugs; and that he had addiction issues when he was a young man,” Shiach said at the time (via MovieMaker), noting that Ledger’s personal struggles attracted the actor to “Queen’s Gambit” protagonist Beth Harmon, a chess prodigy with a similar addiction. “The movie business lost a real talent. I think he would have been an extraordinary director.” Shiach wrote the film adaptation of “The Queen’s Gambit” himself and two directors boarded and left the project early on: “The Coal Miner’s Daughter” filmmaker Michael Apted and Bernardo Bertolucci....

So it makes it all the more potent when that search for answers gets fully cosmic. Such is the case with “Hellbound,” the latest international Netflix series to leap into the ranks of the platform’s most-watched. In it, a strange fate is befalling random people in the Seoul of the not-too-distant future. Visited by the same wispy, shadowy prophet of doom, they’re informed that they’re destined for Hell and that their day of judgment is imminent....

HBO’s description for Considine’s character reads: Viserys was chosen by the lords of Westeros to succeed the Old King, Jaehaerys Targaryen, at the Great Council at Harrenhal. A warm, kind, and decent man, Viserys only wishes to carry forward his grandfather’s legacy, but as we’ve learned from “Game of Thrones,” good men do not necessarily make for great kings. “House of the Dragon” was announced by HBO in November 2019. The 10-episode prequel series is co-created by George R....