Jamie Lee Curtis - Page 5 (2024)

Robert De Niro thanked President Biden, Spike Lee praised Vice President Kamala Harris and Aaron Sorkin backed her (not Mitt Romney) for the top of the ticket.

By Matt Stevens

Critic’s Notebook

It’s still TV’s best and most beautiful series about work and creation. But the new season is a tease.

By James Poniewozik

Notes on the Culture

Fighting the apocalypse is a timeworn movie trope. But in an era of environmental catastrophe, some filmmakers are creating more down-to-earth heroes.

By Ella Riley-Adams

Starring LaKeith Stanfield and Rosario Dawson, this movie plays like a feature-length ad for Disney’s theme-park attraction of the same name.

By Manohla Dargis

Season 2 of the restaurant dramedy is more uplifting, more team-focused and more magnificent.

By James Poniewozik

The stars of the 2003 comedy still keep in touch and are in talks for a sequel, which Disney says is in the works.

By Nadine Zylberberg

The independent studio behind “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “The Whale” became the first to sweep the acting awards and win best director and best picture in the same year.

By Nicole Sperling

Michelle Yeoh made history, Ke Huy Quan made us tear up and Cocaine Bear made us cringe. These were just some of the highs and lows.

By Stephanie Goodman

The futuristic film from the studio A24 won seven awards, including for best picture, directing and in three of the four acting categories.

By Brooks Barnes

The Projectionist

“I know it looks like I’m standing up here by myself, but I am not. I am hundreds of people,” she said in her acceptance speech.

By Kyle Buchanan

Quick Question

Nominees at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday were split on combining award show categories for best actor and best actress.

By Sarah Bahr

The Projectionist

The film took the top prize, as well as lead actress and two supporting trophies. “Abbott Elementary” and “The White Lotus” were named the top TV shows.

By Kyle Buchanan

The Projectionist

The “Top Gun: Maverick” star and producer is mobbed as Austin Butler, Angela Bassett, Ke Huy Quan and others angle to chat with him.

By Kyle Buchanan

Es un año inusualmente fluido para los Premios de la Academia, pero nuestro experto tiene la información para predecir lo que podrá pasar en los máximos premios del cine de EE. UU. Aquí están sus pronósticos.

By Kyle Buchanan

The Projectionist

It’s an unusually wide open year for the Academy Awards. But our expert has a good idea about what will make the cut. Here are his projections.

By Kyle Buchanan

David Gordon Green wraps up his reboot trilogy for a horror franchise that never stays dead for long.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

Whether it’s her return to her horror roots in “Halloween Ends” or her buzzy performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” freedom is what the actress is after.

By Kyle Buchanan

Summer Hitmakers

The directors of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” have found the reaction to their film “humbling and inspiring and confusing.”

By Robert Ito

Critic’s Notebook

The follow-ups took the wrong lessons from the 1978 film. But we keep giving the franchise second chances, in hopes a new one will live up to the original.

By Jason Bailey

The newest installment of the “Halloween” franchise, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, is a murderous mess that substitutes corpses for characters.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

anatomy of a scene

Rian Johnson narrates a sequence from his ensemble murder-mystery, featuring Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis and Daniel Craig.

By Mekado Murphy

TimesVideo

Rian Johnson narrates a sequence from his film.

By Mekado Murphy

Tika Sumpter is a professor with a fraught political history in this movie directed by Joe Chappelle, who signals its serious intent in every frame.

By Teo Bugbee

Universal’s slasher sequel was No. 1 at the box office for a second weekend, and trails only the 1978 original in earnings when adjusted for inflation.

By Gabe Cohn

The “Halloween” actress on being a box-office smash at 59, on celebrating that on Twitter and on what she was thinking while filming with a cracked rib.

By Bruce Fretts

Four decades after the John Carpenter original, the latest installment of “Halloween” earned $77.5 million to top this weekend’s ticket sales.

By Gabe Cohn

Check out these reviews, video features and an oral history.

By The New York Times

David Gordon Green’s sequel to the horror classic brings Michael Myers back for blood.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

anatomy of a scene

David Gordon Green discusses a sequence featuring Jamie Lee Curtis.

By Mekado Murphy

TimesVideo

David Gordon Green discusses a sequence from his new film featuring Jamie Lee Curtis.

By Mekado Murphy

Critic’s Pick

We didn’t review “Halloween” in 1978 because of a newspaper strike. Forty years later, our critic takes a new look at John Carpenter’s masterpiece.

By Jason Zinoman

The story behind a tragic death in Queens. #ThisIs18. “Halloween” at 40. Haruki Murakami doesn’t dream; he writes. And a new crop of feminist dystopian fiction.

By Kaly Soto

John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis are joined by four co-stars — even the one in the mask — to discuss the making of the first film.

By Bruce Fretts

the new season

We asked actresses, directors and writers with this fall’s films to tell us about the forerunners they admire. Tilda Swinton, Rashida Jones, Michelle Rodriguez and others explain in their own words.

By Kathryn Shattuck

The masked murderer from John Carpenter’s classic 1978 shocker is wreaking havoc once again.

By Bruce Fretts

First Draft

At the start of a two-day tour of the state, Hillary Clinton said she would seek to improve the Affordable Care Act and backed the president’s proposed executive action on gun control.

By Amy Chozick

ArtsBeat

How young do you have to be to find “Scream Queens” fun?

By Neil Genzlinger

Weighing the pros and cons of the new horror comedy, premiering Tuesday on Fox.

By Kathryn Shattuck

Television Review

This Fox series features Emma Roberts as the president of a sorority house where evil deeds occurred 20 years earlier.

By Mike Hale

Movie Review

In “Spare Parts,” George Lopez and Jamie Lee Curtis play educators who help four Mexican students build an underwater robot in a national competition.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

A new campaign for the yogurt brand aims to reach younger consumers and men, without the actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

By Stuart Elliott

Restored horror movies on DVD include “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Terror Train,” “The Funhouse” and the standbys in “Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection.”

By Dave Kehr

ArtsBeat

A look at the poster design for the theatrical rerelease of the original “Halloween.”

By Erik Piepenburg

Movie Review | 'You Again'

“You Again,” with Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis, is a misogynistic revenge comedy.

By Stephen Holden

Boldface

Age Before, Well, Everything TONY CURTIS knew what we were after. He paints and makes money from his paintings, and he clearly wanted to talk about them. But he is 80. He knows from fame. ''I've had more paparazzi than there are paparazzi and I never found it offensive,'' he said between sips of a margarita in the cafe of the Palace Hotel. ''I rather like it.''

By Campbell Robertson

FILM REVIEW

Stephen Holden reviews movie Christmas With the Kranks, directed by Joe Roth and starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis; photo (M)

By Stephen Holden

Cover story on 21 portraits of actors and actresses who made films of 2003 so memorable; cover photo is of Bill Murray (L)

By Lynn Hirschberg and Kathy Ryan

Comment on older women as this year's Hollywood 'It Girls'; points out that four of five actresses nominated for Golden Globe Awards for comedies are near 40 or older, illustrating strength of older female audience; photos of Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton and Jamie Lee Curtis (M)

By Laura M. Holson

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Michiko Kakutani Critic's Notebook column on celebrities who are writing children's books; holds that while handful, like John Lithgow and Jamie Lee Curtis, have gift for writing for children, others, like Madonna and Britney Spears, do not; photos (M)

By Michiko Kakutani

Dave Kehr At the Movies column: Actress Jamie Lee Curtis comments on her career and surprise at being cast in new movie Freaky Friday; Linda Hope, eldest daughter of late comedian Bob Hope, comments on his movies in light of tribute opening at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater; producer Ismail Merchant comments on collaboration with director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala on new movie Le Divorce; photo (M)

By Dave Kehr