Film

Nearly a year after the Hollywood writers' strike started, the entertainment industry remains in flux. Harpers journalist Daniel Bessner says TV and film writers are feeling the brunt of the changes.

Coppola, who died April 12, was an assistant art director on the 1963 film Dementia 13 when she met, and soon married, its director, Francis Ford Coppola. Originally broadcast in 1992.

Our film critic Justin Chang says "The Beast" is a wonderfully unconventional adaptation of Henry James' 1903 novella "The Beast In The Jungle." This time-bending sci-fi drama stars Lea Seydoux and George MacKay and interweaves a trio of stories set in the years 1910, 2014 and 2044. It's now playing in theaters. Here's Justin's review.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is out. We listen back to archival interviews with film historian Rudy Behlmer about the original 1933 King Kong and with Steve Ryfle about the original 1954 Godzilla.

Alex Garland's ambitious new thriller largely sidesteps the politics of the present moment. The story takes place in a not-so-distant future where Texas and California have improbably joined forces and seceded from the U.S.

In the new action movie "Road House," Jake Gyllenhaal plays an ex-professional fighter who's hired to maintain order at a rough bar in the Florida Keys. It's a remake of the 1989 action movie of the same title starring Patrick Swayze. It's now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Our film critic Justin Chang has this review.

The Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude has become known for making smart, wild movies with very long titles. His latest, "Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World," spends a day following a beleaguered Bucharest woman doing low-level work on an industrial film. But it's far more than that, says our critic-at-large John Powers. Jude gives us a hilarious and biting portrait of a modern world spinning out of control.

In the new film "The Shadowless Tower," a Beijing restaurant critic is at a mid-life crossroads. Now in theaters, it was written and directed by the Korean Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu. Our film critic Justin Chang says this absorbing drama draws you in at every step.

Writer, director and producer Ed Zwick has made dozens of films and TV shows. In Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions, he writes about studios, actors and the frustrations and joys of the business.

Hot sex, drug abuse, revenge killing and a powerful heroine (played by Kristen Stewart) — Love Lies Bleeding is a deliriously enjoyable crime film that does not hold back.