SAN FRANCISCO – Originally cast in a starring role, Netflix’s original DVD-by-mail service has been reduced to a bit player – one that may eventually get killed off as the company focuses on its booming video streaming service.Netflix’s fourth-quarter earnings report released Wednesday ...
NEW YORK – When Oscar nominations are announced next week, Amazon is virtually assured of notching the first — but probably not the last – best-picture nomination for a streaming service.Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea,” which Amazon plunked down $10 million for at the ...
Ottessa Moshfegh’s story collection, “Homesick for Another World,” couldn’t come at a better time.Notions of class and power are in an unpredictable flux. A new elite rises, flipping the deck into the air. Nobody knows where the cards will land.So here comes Moshfegh, whose imaginative ...
“Split “ is a movie in which James McAvoy plays a man with 23 personalities. Some of them are kind. Some are strange. Some are talented. Some are deranged. One is a woman. One is a child. And one of them likes to kidnap teenage girls, lock them in a basement and make them dance naked. As ...
Delbert McClinton and Self-Made Men, “Prick of the Litter” (Hot Shot Records/Thirty Tigers)Few singers illustrate the gulf between live and recorded music better than Delbert McClinton, whose gruff voice and blues-infused rock have always sounded best in a beer-splashed nightclub.But ...
LONDON – Prince William will soon leave his job as an air ambulance helicopter pilot to spend more time on royal duties.Kensington Palace said in a statement Friday that William, his wife Kate and their two children will spend more time in London and less time at their country home in ...
