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“I Know Those Guys”

Before he met Nora Ephron, Nick Pileggi learned everything he needed to know to write Goodfellas in Bensonhurst

Bake-Off Bakes On

Fans of The Great British Baking Show, as it’s known in the U.S., will be relieved to learn that the show will soon come back for its 11th season

Wax On, Wax Off

Cobra Kai, a TV-series sequel to The Karate Kid, pays worthy homage to the original while undoing it

Alan Partridge Has Something to Say

“It’s the real, raw, be-cardiganed me.” Britain’s No. 1 raconteur is back with a podcast

Farm to Screen

Last Night I Dreamt I Saw Rebecca Again

Armie Hammer and Lily James revisit Daphne du Maurier’s gothic romance

Jack Mulhern

At 26, the actor has acted in series for Netflix, Hulu, and HBO. This week sees the premiere of his first movie, a coming-of-age hockey story that hits close to home

Mean Girl

Ellen DeGeneres faces accusations of, well, you name it

Creature Comforts

James Herriot’s country vet returns to the small screen

A Different Sputnik

Oksana Akinshina stands out as the hardened heroine of a Russian version of Alien

Daring Duo

A writer on Succession teams up with the star of Secret Diary of a Call Girl in a new series, I Hate Suzie

U.S./U.K. Football: Same Word, Different Sport

Jason Sudeikis plays a U.S. coach who takes over a Premier League team

So, What Explains Cats?

The secret to creating a hit musical lies in an ancient Greek number

A Dickens Masterpiece for These Times

David Copperfield is no dusty relic but something sparkling—and very modern

Behind The Painted Bird

The contentious Holocaust author Jerzy Kosiński turned down every offer for a film adaptation. A Czech filmmaker finally takes on the story

Frenemies, Cold War–Style

Dominic West and Damian Lewis take on one of the greatest spy scandals ever

The Sun, the Moon, and the Star

Eve Hewson takes on her biggest role, in the adaptation of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Luminaries

Elena Ferrante Does Not Take a Summer Holiday

Filming part three of the brilliant friendship between Lila and Elena gets underway in a few months

His First Sunshine

Dawn Porter

The filmmaker known for exposing racial injustice has a new documentary on John Lewis

2020: A Movie Odyssey

What can American audiences learn from Asian cinemas during this pandemic?

Shades of Black

The first major African-American filmmaker still has a lot to tell us

“That’s What She Said!” (And He, Too)

A brief, writers’-room oral history of The Office

Before Cable Was Cool

A new book tells the story of CNN, Ted Turner, and the birth of the 24-hour news cycle