The Iron Throne, "Game of Thrones' " ultimate prize that countless characters killed and were killed for over eight seasons of stellar storytelling, melted into a molten puddle during the series finale Sunday, dripping slowly down a set of stairs that once led to the realm's coveted seat of power.

In a farewell episode that ended the series ...Read more

CANNES, France -- "This is the game," Pedro Almodovar says, his eyes positively twinkling as I apologize about asking an obvious question. "You will ask it and I will answer as if it's the first time."

The Spanish master director is sitting in a sheltered corner on a quiet hotel rooftop, enjoying the calm before the storm that is the Festival ...Read more

Carly Rae Jepsen has found success by never quite going all the way.

In 2007 this smiley singer from British Columbia made it to the semifinals of "Canadian Idol" before getting the boot. In 2012 she topped the Hot 100 with the chipper and contagious "Call Me Maybe," then struggled to create another radio hit. For 2015's "Emotion" she ...Read more

CANNES, France -- In the eight years since Terrence Malick won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for "The Tree of Life," his magisterial drama about childhood's end and the spirit's awakening, the standard critical line is that he has become an artist lost in the wilderness, stranded in an artistic limbo of his own making.

His most recent features -- "...Read more

The final image of Pedro Almodovar's "Pain and Glory" is such a deftly planted masterstroke, such an ingenious and intuitive little meta-miracle, that you may wonder why you didn't see it coming.

Then again, maybe you will see it coming. It's the kind of twist that awaits you at the end of a particularly well-plotted mystery: a surprise that ...Read more

PASADENA, Calif. -- It may seem unusual, but actress Julianna Margulies' latest role has changed her hygiene habits.

All those years as head nurse Carol Hathaway on "ER" didn't faze her. But playing real-life Army pathologist Nancy Jaax in National Geographic's "The Hot Zone" did.

"I definitely wash my hands more, and am very aware of what I'm...Read more

When Dennis Quaid was 12, his family moved from one Houston suburb to another. He lost the gang of kids on his block just as he was entering junior high and transitioning into puberty. His only constant? Gertrude, the family's new basset hound who became the boy's companion while his parents were away at work.

"I still get choked up when I ...Read more

P!nk

"Hurts 2B Human"

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In its own way, P!nk's eighth album confirms the Doylestown, Pa., native-born Alecia Moore's standing as an enduring pop star -- for nearly two decades now -- even more than 2017's "Beautifully Human." That album followed a five-year layoff and was accompanied by a full-scale publicity roll-out celebrating the ...Read more

The stone-cold killer in a bespoke bulletproof suit is back -- and if you thought John Wick was good with a pencil, you should see what he can do with a book of Russian folklore in the stacks of the New York Public Library.

The same goes for axes, guns, katanas, a lot of knives and even a few helpful horses as Keanu Reeves racks up the bad guy ...Read more

TORONTO -- The films of French writer-director Olivier Assayas often have a lot on their minds. From "Demonlover" and "Summer Hours" to the recent "Clouds of Sils Maria" and "Personal Shopper," many of Assayas' movies take on multiple ideas at once, circling different ways of examining contemporary life.

His new film, "Non-Fiction," is at once ...Read more

Spoiler alert: This column contains details about the fifth episode of the final season of "Game of Thrones."

In case you haven't heard the faint screams emanating from your Twitter feed, the ending for "Game of Thrones" has not been going well. While nobody has suffered quite so much as those trapped in King's Landing as a furious Dragon Queen...Read more

After she'd cast them to play best friends in her film, director Olivia Wilde invited actresses Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever to meet for the first time over lunch. They instantly hugged for nearly five minutes, sat side by side, holding hands and gushing over how much they were looking forward to making "Booksmart."

Feldstein began to ...Read more