Why was Traylor mostly omitted from history for so long? The framework of American Black art in the mid-20th century, this documentary argues, didn’t exist in any robust way. But “Chasing Ghosts” isn’t so interested in plumbing the mechanisms that worked, for many years, to erase Bill Traylor from the canon; instead, it’s a portrait of the artist that uses staged dramatic readings, archival materials including voiceover and photographs, and interviews to understand his craft....

Despite the film’s many release date delays, its prime new summer slotting comes with a small silver lining. Shortland’s film, though an outlier in the cinematic world — at least for now — arrives as Marvel is in the midst of a push into television series that includes a strong showing from female creators. The franchise has so far released three new series on Disney+, with two of them coming from female directors, including “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” director Kari Skogland and “Loki” director Kate Herron....

The new limited series has plenty more on its mind than aping a particular time and place. “Brand New Cherry Flavor” carries all the psychological trappings that come with the curdled glamor of Los Angeles, but this is a specific kind of Hollywood story; one that exists in its own self-contained universe, detached from a conventional decade-signaling aesthetic. Very quickly, the show establishes its primary concern isn’t enduring stardom or lavish luxury....

“Twenty-eight years after losing my brother, Brandon Lee, to a very similar situation — one that allowed real bullets onto a film set and that made actors into agents of death — I’m finally in a sound enough mental and emotional space to raise my voice,” Lee writes. “So here goes. And I don’t take or want credit for these ideas, by the way. I’m just the sympathetic character who gets the good lines....

The “Succession” star hilariously gave a fresh twist on the viral “Euphoria” Season 2 scene that found Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) manically declaring her love for Jacob Elordi’s Nate while in the high school bathroom. To get into the character, Cox donned a cowboy hat and blue checkered shirt to step into the role in a skit for the March 14 episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” Watch the sketch below. “Fck it,” Cox says in the sketch, his hand on his hip....

The Razzie Awards, also known as the de facto anti-Oscars, just crowned prolific action star Willis as the first actor to receive their very own awards category: Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movie. Golden Globe winner Willis, who is now a leading star of producer Randall Emmett’s “Geezer Teasers,” as coined by Vulture, appeared in eight direct-to-video films this past year. The Razzie-nominated films are “American Siege,” “Apex,” “Midnight in the Switchgrass,” “Cosmic Sin,” “Deadlock,” “Fortress,” “Out of Death,” and “Survive the Game,” which were all part of a Half in the Bag review episode by YouTube channel, Red Letter Media....

The daughter of director-producer Ron Howard and former summer camp bestie with “Phantom Menace” star Natalie Portman, Howard even shocked herself with how much “Star Wars” lore she accumulated just by knowing George Lucas as a family friend. “Every single year for Christmas, we would get ‘Star Wars’ figurines,” Howard recalled to Romper. “Before I was even old enough to know who the characters were and what the stories were, I was getting these little figurines, and I was very curious about it, and I was really into it....