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Here’s the official synopsis: “For, like, thousands of years, the origins of the United States of America have remained shrouded in mystery, lost to the sands of time. Who built this ‘country tis of thee,’ and why? Only the dinosaurs know… until now. For the first time in human history, the incredible, completely true story of America’s origins are revealed in ‘America: The Motion Picture’ — a once-in-a-lifetime cultural event available the only way the Founding Fathers ever intended their story be told....

For one, Amy Tan is just cool. Her severe bangs, chic style, and erudition that borders on ASMR-inducing make for the kind of literary character you can spot from miles away. Even in archival photos in this documentary, she makes smoking a cigarette suddenly look fashionable again. But she also, now 68 and more than 30 years away from the phenomenon of “The Joy Luck Club,” still carries with her a pathos held over from her complicated upbringing among immigrant Chinese parents who definitely wanted her and her siblings to conform to American values, forms of dress, and even ways of speaking....

Two years after Garfield’s breakout turn in “The Social Network,” the actor played Peter Parker in the 2012 franchise reboot. Garfield was 26 and determined to balance theatre roles with the superhero part. “I’m like, ‘Fuck, that was a lot to take on. It’s a shit ton to take on,’” Garfield recalled to British GQ. “And I wanted to take it on. I was ready. I was so up for it....

Appearing on the MacTaggart Legacy panel at the Edinburgh International TV Festival (via The Independent), Iannucci explained why he thinks the debate around “wokeness” is ridiculous. He believes that the word “woke” has lost all meaning and is being gratuitously used by politicians to describe minor pop culture changes that they don’t like. “My worry is that there is now this word, ‘woke’, that the government has weaponized to try and stop all that,” Iannucci said....

The screenplay comes from Shay Hatten, who co-wrote “Army of the Dead” with Joby Harold. The cast of “Army of Thieves” includes Nathalie Emmanuel, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin, Guz Khan, and Jonathan Cohen. Producers are Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller, Dan Maag, and Schweighöfer, from a story developed by Snyder and Hatten. Deborah Snyder previously teased “Army of Thieves” in a conversation with IndieWire following the first film’s release this past May....

Now after acclaim, some immense storytelling freedom, and a four-year (!) hiatus, “Atlanta” Season 3 has arrived. Ahead of its March 24 release date, here’s a quick refresher on what there is to know about where the show left off, what might be ahead, and how close it is to its own ending. 1. Wasn’t This Season Supposed to Be Here Sooner? Allow, if you will, your mind to travel back to the earliest days of 2020....

In it, you see Robbie in a red dress and wild hair hysterically unraveling amid tableaux of Jazz Age bacchanalia. There’s also a drunken Brad Pitt tap-dancing in his underwear. The sizzle is a propulsive series of images that come at you hard and fast, but one standout is breakout actor Diego Calva, who plays a character called Manny Torres, appears to be the lead. In a conversation with TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey, director Damien Chazelle said that the super-sized Hollywood epic, set circa 1920s Los Angeles as silent films transitioned to talkies, isn’t finished....