April 28, 2025

What Box-Office Milestones Could Sinners Still Stake Through the Heart?

  Photo: Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has already proven itself a box-office killer — its second weekend made $45 million domestically, just 6 percent lower than its $48 million opening weekend. The film’s worldwide gross is officially at $161 million. While that’s already a huge sum, it seems safe to say that …

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Warren Zevon Wanted This Induction

  Photo: Virginia Turbett/Redferns/Getty Images The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s envoy sent some some unexpected news this week: Warren Zevon is part of the 2025 class, joining inductees through the organization’s Musical Influence Award, a special category given to artists whose music and performance style “have directly influenced, inspired, and evolved rock and …

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Ben Affleck Thinks His Armageddon Commentary May Be His Best Work

  Photo: Criterion/Youtube Ben Affleck can’t believe Armageddon is in the Criterion Collection either. “I didn’t think of it as that kind of movie when he did it,” he admits, his feelings about Michael Bay’s end-of-the-world thriller more than apparent from his audio commentary on the film. “I didn’t know any better than to be …

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The Metropolitan Opera Brings Salome a New Head

  Photo: Muriel Steinke/Met Opera When Salome calls for Jochanaan’s head, the Metropolitan Opera can really give it to her. In Richard Strauss’s opera Salome, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play retelling the biblical gospel, Princess Salome falls in love with Jochanaan — probably better known to American Bible-quizzers as John the Baptist — and then demands …

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Dark Winds Draws New Border Lines

  Photo: AMC Spoilers follow for Dark Winds through third-season finale “Béésh Łį́į́ (Iron Horse),” which premiered on AMC on Sunday, April 27.  In its third season, Dark Winds went bigger, both narratively and geographically. Where the first two seasons concentrated on the Navajo reservation and the crimes and mysteries investigated there by Bernadette Manuelito …

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