Neal McDonough said he's never seen Hollywood more interested in making faith-based movies than they are now.

The Hollywood veteran also opened up about his latest role in the apocalyptic movie “ Homestead ,” harkening back to his faith ahead of the movie’s release in theaters on December 20 .

Cate Blanchett said she's "deeply concerned" about artificial intelligence.

The actress said it's a much bigger problem than just how it will affect her career.

“You can totally replace any person,” she said.

Hollywood has been recently reckoning with AI .

Visitors to China should be prepared to find that the commemoration of Christ’s coming has been imported as a secular, commercialized “festival” In public displays, Santa called Old Christmas Person usually holds a saxophone.

Young people now use Christmas Eve to give an unusual gift “peace apples” to close friends.

A foreign holiday meant to worship the Prince of Peace has become a paean to peace.

Timothée Chalamet brings Bob Dylan to life without feeling like a cheap impersonation.

Adrien Brody's performance anchors a fiercely original tale not soon forgotten.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo bring bold, Broadway-worthy voices to Glinda and Elphaba .

“ A Real Pain ” is bittersweet, moving, filled with gentle truths about the human condition.

It follows two Jewish cousins as they travel to Poland to visit their late grandmother’s hometown.

Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play the squabbling cousins.

Ethan Slater's ex-wife, Lilly Jay , recently published an essay addressing their divorce.

Slater has been criticized for leaving Jay , his high school sweetheart, and starting a relationship with Ariana Grande .

Jay , who works as a clinical psychologist, said she and Slater experienced “growing distance” while he was working on the movie.

This week we learned more of the depths of wickedness plumbed by the ousted Assad regime.

The discovery of what appears to be a mass grave site in the city of Qutayfah , marked by trenches long and deep.

Closer to home, the sentencing of the three people who caused the death of 10-year-old Sara Sharif , one of them her own father.

Jonathan Freedland says we can draw strength from those who dare to swim against the bleakest tides.

We don’t have to pretend that’s likely, but for a moment at least we can let in the possibility and the hope.

I think of Merope Mills , who endured the greatest loss any human can face the death of a child and somehow turned that pain into a life-saving gift.

The Brutalist is the most exciting indie movie I've seen in years .

It took Brady Corbet seven years to finance and independently produce a period epic of three and a half hours .

Corbet: "It has never been more difficult than it is right now to make radical films that don't subscribe to the algorithm".

The Brutalist isn’t the most commercial subject, but when you were writing it, were you thinking in terms of having multiple lead parts that would attract big-name actors? When you’re writing, do you keep budgetary constraints in mind? No, but my back-of-the-cocktail-napkin math has gotten pretty good.

The Brutalist has been called a seven-year project, but the actual shooting schedule was something like 34 days ? It was 33 days . For me, the future of cinema is the past. We have no better technology than large format to make people get off their couch and go see a film in IMAX.

London fashion week bans use of exotic animal skins from its 2025 shows.

British Fashion Council says ban is part of wider range of standards to promote sustainable practices.

IUCN experts say ban could harm the protection of many snakes, crocodiles, and reptile species.

Ban would undermine economic incentives for communities to conserve species, they say.

When a holiday chore becomes a treasure, your family's annual family portraits are a treasure.

The family portraits were a record of our lives, a reflection of our personalities, writer writes.

They were more than just “Look at those bad ’ 70s outfits” than Look at that bad 70s outfit”.

Holiday Inn ( 1942 ) is the only Christmas movie explicitly built around the American calendar of holidays.

The director is Mark Sandrich , who made some of the famous Fred and Ginger musicals: Top Hat, The Gay Divorcee .

There’s much in the story about both modern America and the older America , with Irving Berlin's then-famous mix of nostalgia and confidence.

Bob Greene : Holiday Inn seems to be a story about the dangers that glamour poses to America .

He says it's a romantic comedy, but there's drama even in a musical musical, so he gets the girl, loses the girl and has to win her over again.

Greene: As soon as Bing ’s showbiz turns American history into entertainment, it in turn becomes obsolete.

Or is it a reality they have to come to understand, including finding their place in it, which is much more at the mercy of audiences than spellbinding them? Orchestrating the national memory is no mere joke and it does suggest artists have remarkable power in America , but that it accrues slowly over time, as each generation looks to remember its formative years .