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One Friday night in February 2005, Robert “Bobby” Vaughn grabbed his phone from a nightstand in his Los Angeles apartment and dialled 911 to report a shooting. He told the operator that multiple shots were fired inside his home, leaving one person dead. Vaughn was also able to identify the …

A new documentary,Not Going Quietly, highlights the work of activist Ady Barkan, who has fought to improve the U.S. healthcare system since being diagnosed with ALS. After receiving his diagnosis shortly after the birth of his son in 2016, Barkan was almost immediately confronted with the debilitatingly high costs of …

Actor Henry Thomas, who starred in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial at the age of 11, talks about the difficult transition from child star to adult actor in this exclusive clip from Showbiz Kids. The HBO documentary, which provides a “raw look” at the world of child acting, premieres July 14th on …

Early on in Martin Scorsese‘s new documentary The Rolling Thunder Revue, Bob Dylan tries to explain the idea behind legendary 1975/76 tour and quickly grows flustered. “I’m trying to get to the core of what this Rolling Thunder thing is all about,” he says, “and I don’t have a clue …

Todd Douglas Miller knew that, when it comes to making documentaries — like 2014’s T-Rex fossil hunt Dinosaur 13 — things can get a little stressful. Still, this new project he had been working on was something else entirely. Sitting in an office in New York City last year, the …

This January, a mini-deluge of U.K. productions will make their way to the fair shores of the States, including a legal thriller, an espionage thriller and a slightly-less-thrilling coming-of-age drama. Elsewhere, Netflix revives an animated favorite; gives Atlanta’s hardest MC his own platform; and gets the lowdown on the most …

So, how was your summer? See any good movies? Everyone has their own take about whether 2018 delivered a great or miserable summer movie season. What we can all agree on, however, is that it was a long one. For the most part the industry considers the kickoff of blockbuster …

They broke up in 1982, after a decade of existence and a staggering eight-year run of hits, and have not recorded new material in over 35 years – but if you’ve been to the movies in the last quarter of a century, ABBA has never really gone away. The Swedish …

One of the year’s weirdest surprises: seeing a 50-year-old kiddie TV classic blow up into a national obsession. But something about Mr. Rogers speaks right to the heart of our moment. And thanks to Morgan Neville’s excellent documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, people are spending the summer with a …

The Elvis Presley stories repeated most often these days are rarely flattering. Some emphasize his lethal appetite for fatty foods and prescription painkillers; others dwell on bizarre anecdotes like his meeting with Richard Nixon, where he warned the president that the Beatles had an “anti-American spirit.” The overall picture in …