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“The War on Disco,” a new PBS documentary, explores the backlash against the genre and the issues of race, gender and sexuality that informed it.

Premiering in September, the films take very different looks at what has and hasn’t changed in the almost 70 years since Brown v. Board of...

The Coens and Ridley Scott are among the directors who took big swings at the novelist’s work. The distinctive writer left his mark on the...

Years of addiction and struggle followed his breakout role in “American Beauty.” He lived to tell the tale, and get a major role on TV’s...

For the first season of his horror anthology for Netflix, the filmmaker handpicked eight directors to tell a series of strange and macabre tales.

Though the memoir this film is based on confronts the issue of addiction to alcohol, the adaptation skirts the topic and its deeper implications.