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Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The first of this year’s Envelope roundtables dropped this week, with Jen Yamato talking to “Da 5 Bloods’” Delroy Lindo, “Sound of Metal’s” Riz Ahmed, “Minari’s” Steven Yeun, “The Midnight Sky’s” George Clooney and “Mank’s” Gary Oldman. It’s an invigorating conversation to take in, either on the page or on video. Take Oldman’s response to a comment by Ahmed: “This impostor syndrome, it’s a good thing to have. I’m a little older than you, and I’ve...

The days are getting longer, right? That means more time for reading, at least by my definition. Here are a half-dozen recommended paperback, if your bedside table is currently bare.

This is our first newsletter of 2021, and it has already been quite a year. The events of this past week surpass any thoughts on movies at the moment. I feel I have likely said this before, but there is no one better at sorting through the cultural confusion of a moment like Wednesday than Times TV critic Lorraine Ali. As she wrote, “Wednesday’s violent attack cannot be seen as yet another preparatory ‘stress test’ for democracy. It was the real thing. We, as a nation, are not immune to the crises in which we are so often intervening overseas, parachuting in to save the day — and fr...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Welcome to a special pre-holiday edition to jump-start your viewing lists. This newsletter will be taking next week off, so we’ll meet again in the new year. This is a very unusual awards season, given its oddly elongated calendar, but accolades are being handed out nonetheless. This past weekend the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (of which I’m a member) voted on its 2020 awards, sticking to the actual calendar year rather than the extended eligibility calendar of the Oscars. Adv...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The Sundance Film Festival announced its 2021 program this week, a slimmed-down lineup of 72 feature films to be unveiled during an ambitious hybrid event that will be mostly online. Festival director Tabitha Jackson acknowledged how things may still change between now and the beginning of the festival, and how hard it is to predict their impact on the event. “I think that one of the amazing things about film is that the audience makes the meaning to a large extent. And so even from a mo...