“Scary Movie” (2026) (Paramount Pictures) By KELLINA MOORE This article contains spoilers for the new “Scary Movie.” What’s your favorite Scary Movie? No, not like “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” or “Friday the 13th” — more like the one where Anna Faris gets into a fist fight with a cat or the one where Regina Hall gets stabbed for talking in the theater. Yes, I’m talking about the parody movies of the 2000s (and one from the early 2010s) that sent up the reigning horror trope

The cast of “Schmigadoon!” celebrates winning the Tony Award for best new musical at the 79th Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, on Sunday, June 7, 2026. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times) By MICHAEL PAULSON “Schmigadoon!,” a musical comedy that lovingly spoofs the genre by imagining a bickering couple trapped in a fantastical village whose residents keep bursting into song, won the coveted Tony Award for best new musical on Sunday night. The win by “Schmigadoo

Brett Goldstein and Jennifer Lopez, stars of the new Netflix comedy “Office Romance,” in Los Angeles on May 27, 2026. The Bronx-born superstar and the British comedian have more in common than you think. (Sela Shiloni/The New York Times) By ASHLEY SPENCER While working on the third season of “Ted Lasso” — a sports show with the heart of a romantic comedy — Brett Goldstein and one of the “Lasso” creators, Joe Kelly, spent a train ride home lamenting a perceived recent lack of

Composer Roberto Sierra (Facebook via Roberto Sierra) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR For Roberto Sierra, Puerto Rico’s most venerated living classical composer, this week represents a pinnacle: by Saturday he will have witnessed the world premiere of not one but two of his own creations in less than a week. Hot on the heels of the triumphant unveiling of his “Estudios Latinos” (Latin Studies) in Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra led

“The Flats” By DEVIKA GIRISH This month’s picks include an Argentine comedy based on a real-life incident, a queer story set in 1980s Chile, a documentary about the aftermath of the Troubles in Belfast and more. ‘27 Nights’ In 2005, Argentine artist and writer Natalia Kohen was committed to a psychiatric institution against her will by her children in what turned out to be a corrupt scheme to control her finances. That sordid tale provides the loose inspiration for Uruguayan

“Good Boy” (2025) By JASON BAILEY Lusty nuns, insecure writers and a brave pooch lead this month’s under-the-radar recommendations on your subscription streaming services. ‘Good Boy’ (2025) This tightly-constructed horror thriller from first-time feature director Ben Leonberg has, first and foremost, one of the most accurate titles of recent memory: Its star Indy is, indeed, a very good boy. That’s because Indy is a dog, and the clever conceit of “Good Boy” is that it’s a hor

By MIGUEL SALAZAR A selection of summaries from The New York Times Book Review: SUPERBLOOM: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, by Nicholas Carr. (Norton. 272 pages. $19.99.) “Social media is not successful because it goes against our instincts and desires,” Carr writes. “It’s successful because it gives us what we want.” His jeremiad lays some blame with tech companies that feed us digital junk food and draw us deeper into our feeds by pushing content that whips up

Quarteto Borikén (Facebook via Programa Radial Salud, Cultura y Algo Mas.) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR When King Solomon said there was nothing new under the sun, he hardly could have been thinking of Raymond Torres-Santos, one of Puerto Rico’s most versatile and eclectic composers. But those who attend the next Casals Festival concert will witness not only the prestigious debut of a new (well, almost new) string ensemble but also a recycled 48-year-old composition

Nicolas Cage plays the title character, a version of Spider-Man who lives in 1930s New York and works as a private investigator. By ESTHER ZUCKERMAN “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” the latest movie featuring the web-slinging Marvel hero, arrives in theaters in July. But last week a very different Spider-Man came to television. “Spider-Noir” premiered Monday, May 25 on the MGM+ cable channel and began streaming on Amazon Prime Video last Wednesday. Nicolas Cage plays the title ch

Cellist Emanuel Graf (landesjugendorchester.de) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR Just when everyone is packing up for the summer, musicians are working themselves into a frenzy of creativity and exuberance. Take Matthew, a 17-year-old Maryland high-schooler of Chinese ancestry. The youngest of 25 students enrolled in British keyboard genius Ian Hobson’s 12th International Piano Festival at the Puerto Rico Steinway Society headquarters in Jan D’Esopo’s Gallery Inn this w