How Steven Spielberg Keeps Confounding His Critics

A look at the director's impossible-to-summarize career, which takes a plunge into virtual reality with 'Ready Player One,' just months after 'The Post' championed freedom of the press.

TV's Stormy Daniels Obsession Distorts What Really Matters

The sordid and the squalid are still given priority over anything that might shape actual lives.

An Open Letter to Hollywood: Don't Run for Office

'Sex and the City' star Cynthia Nixon is running for Governor of New York, and many other actors have mulled political campaigns. But now, more than ever, is the time for professionals.

Let Aaron Sorkin's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Adaptation Move Forward

With a new lawsuit, the Harper Lee estate is effectively saying that it has no faith in her novel to withstand the slings and arrows of someone else’s interpretation.

Stephen Hawking and the Search for a Hollywood Genius

Geniuses rock the system, buck convention, shatter our most fundamental notions about the world and even the universe. They’re the last kinds of people you want toiling in a well oiled machine.

If Jennifer Lawrence Can't Open a Movie, Who Can?

The A-list actress' recent stumbles with 'Red Sparrow,' 'mother!' and 'Passengers' are no reason to gloat. The death of the movie star is bad news for everyone in Hollywood.

Harassment, Scandal and the Media: Is a Hollywood Witch Hunt Brewing?

Journalism is at its best exposing wrongdoing, and at its worst repeating unverified allegations.

Hollywood's Culture of Abuse Helped Harvey Weinstein Thrive 

"The truth is, many of us knew something bad was going on, and failed to speak up. But what did we know, and when?" writes THR's longtime executive editor, features.

Hugh Hefner: The Sad Secrets of His Final Years Revealed

He'd cultivated an image as a notorious womanizer throughout his life, but he had become an elderly man, living amidst the clutter of his past.