“Evil Dead Burn” is the second in a series of fresh reboots intended to give promising early-career horror directors a shot at flexing their meanest muscles. By BEATRICE LOAYZA Heads are severed and mutilated yet again in the latest “Evil Dead” installment, which understands, at the very least, that any inheritor of the 1981 cult classic by Sam Raimi must strive to unleash a torrent of shamelessly nasty thrills. The blood feast “Evil Dead Burn” is the second in a series of fr

Actress Irene Sofía Lucio By THE STAR STAFF Puerto Rican actress Irene Sofía Lucio announced this week that she will star in the play “Disruption,” an off-Broadway production to be staged at the Pershing Square Signature Center in New York. “Bringing Mia to life in ‘Disruption’ at the Pershing Square Signature Center promises to be an intense journey,” Lucio said in a written statement. The San Juan native will play Mia, the central character in the thriller written by Andrew

Lido Pimienta in Burlington, Ontario, Canada on July 13, 2026. On Pimienta’s new album, “Caribenya,” the Colombian Canadian musician sought a warmer, more complex depiction of Caribbean culture. Creating it helped her rediscover the beauty of living. (Tommy Keith/The New York Times) By CAROLINA ABBOTT GALVÃO Chinchorros, hammocks traditionally handwoven by the Wayuu Indigenous community, hang in many homes in La Guajira, the arid peninsula straddling Colombia and Venezuela wh

To see Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” an interpretation of an epic journey in his preferred IMAX 70mm format, admirers packed their bags and took out their passports. (Neil Webb/The New York Times) By MALIA MENDEZ Even before buying his movie tickets for the opening weekend of “The Odyssey,” Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited epic, Zach Weible reserved his hotel room. He could have driven just over an hour to catch an IMAX screening in Orlando. But instead, he took a car, b

BTS, Justin Bieber, Shakira, Gustavo Dudamel, Coldplay, Burna Boy, The Muppets, Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt stand with other performers during the halftime show of the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina in East Rutherford, N.J., on Sunday, July 19, 2026. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times) By LINDSAY ZOLADZ Madonna. Justin Bieber. All seven members of BTS. Shakira and Burna Boy. Gustavo Dudamel. Jason Sudeikis in character as Ted Lasso. Chris Martin. Ronaldo and

“Dead Man’s Wire” By ERIK PIEPENBURG ‘Hoagie’ It’s been a notably deep and deranged year for genre films that defy description. (I’m looking at you, “Buffet Infinity.”) I’m pleased to add to that list Matt Hewitt’s wackadoo creature feature comedy that will thrill fans of marauding little monster movies of the ’80s, chiefly “The Deadly Spawn” and “Ghoulies.” The critter here is Hoagie, a homunculus zygote that a suburban dad named Brendan Bean (Ryan Morley) finds in his trunk

By MANOHLA DARGIS Throughout his career, Christopher Nolan has taken on big stories — though especially those of men, their struggles and their wars — and bent them to his virtuosic will. In movie after movie, in darkness and in light, his characters push against the limits of human endeavor and consciousness, testing themselves much like he tests the possibilities of the medium. If the line in his 2006 drama “The Prestige” about how a magician takes something ordinary and “m

“Star Wars” fans take photos with people in costumes at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, where the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performed a live soundtrack for “The Empire Strikes Back,” May 2, 2026. Live soundtrack performances, one conductor said, are going to “become an expected part of an orchestra‘s offerings, rather than being viewed as a special or outlying concert event.” (Nate Smallwood/The New York Times) By SOPAN DEB This summer, plenty of familiar scores will be heard a

“Hoop Dreams” (1994) By BRANDON YU This column has explored the idea of America before, and following a historic anniversary of the nation’s founding, it’s as good a time as any to do it again. The nation’s origin story has always been told in terms of capital-F freedom; these five films are about the constant struggle to carve it out and preserve it, over and over. ‘Hoop Dreams’ (1994) People would often tell teenage basketball star player William Gates not to forget about t

Sam Neill at the 2010 Vancouver International Wine Festival (Wikipedia) By THE NEW YORK TIMES Sam Neill, the versatile New Zealand screen actor who appeared in more than 150 productions over a five-decade career, and who was perhaps best known for his star turn as the adventuresome paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in the “Jurassic Park” series, died Monday in Sydney. He was 78. His family announced the death in a post on Instagram but did not provide further details. Neill was d