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Jack Ryan is back and just in time to take on Donald Trump’s mounting attack on the American intelligence community. - A push from local filmmakers for a new film tax credit plan reached the steps of the Maryland State House this year amid production of the shortened sixth and final season of Netflix’s 21-time Emmy nominee “House of Cards” in the Baltimore area.
- The Baltimore artist Amy Sherald has known since the fall of 2016 that she had been selected to paint the portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama. The nearly 18-month build-up came to an end Monday, as her artwork and Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama were publicly unveiled.
- The responsibility of journalism is to provide information, not to enforce the proper use thereof, says Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Want to make sure you see all of this year's Oscar contenders as soon as they're released? We've got you covered.
- The national touring production of "The Color Purple" at the Hippodrome features sterling cast and John Doyle's inspired direction/design.
- Ken Burns has created another epic documentary with "Vietnam," a 10-part, 18-hour film. But for all its excellence, I fear it won't achieve the goal set by PBS of sparking a "national conversation."
- The week's 10 best arts and entertainment events in Baltimore on Aug. 20-26.
- The top Baltimore-area arts and entertainment events for the week of June 25-July 1.
- "Finding Neverland," a musical about J. M. Barrie's creation of "Peter Pan," heads to Baltimore with John Davidson joining the cast in dual role of theater producer and Captain Hook.
- The film “Jaws” landed in the early days of the summer of 1975 and it was all anyone talked about.
- The last several decades would be strange without the “Imperial March” stamped into our minds as Darth Vader stands on the bridge of his Super Star destroyer in
- Events in the Baltimore area for the week of May 14-20, 2017
- 'On the Map' opens the 2017 Baltimore Jewish Film Festival with a tale of surprising basketball prowess and unquenchable Israeli pride
- This retro neo-noir buddy flick from former screenwriter wunderkind Shane Black is the latest movie after "Inherent Vice" and "High Rise" to mine the post-utopian diffusion of 70's genre fiction for riffs on regular folk chewed up and spit out by capitalist conspiracies. As with "Inherent Vice," it's a detective flick set in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, but where that film's pretensions had it matching Pynchon to Altman (while half-heartedly claiming the Zucker Brothers), "The Nice Guys"
- Taking a look at the role of the Christmas movie in film history.
- Donald Trump is "hacking" presidential politics; he understands the system so well that he's able to break the rules.
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- With the 40th anniversary of Jaws marking the anniversary of the 'summer blockbuster,' The Times has taken a look at the changing patterns in movie releases
- In Worthington, Karla and Tom Dwyer's son Scott earned his Eagle rank. A member of Troop 874, Glen Mar Methodist Church, Scott's Eagle Project supported the YMCA of Central Maryland on Montgomery Road in Ellicott City by building picnic tables and back pack racks for their summer camps.
- The Drive-In style screening of the Indana Jones film will be free to the public.
- Escape the heat of the summer months by retreating into an air-conditioned theater with these summer movies.
- The Baltimore-Washington area is playing host to a series of events marking the 150
- "Wicked," the musical prequel to "The Wizard of Oz," heads back to the hometown of its producer Marc Platt; this third visit brings TV veteran John Davidson along as the Wizard.
- Homosexuality is now the "third rail" of politics; touch it and face political death
- In '12 Years a Slave,' actor Chiwetel Ejiofor takes on the biggest film role of his career, one that many critics believe will yield him a best-actor Oscar nomination. It is also a role that he wasn't quite sure he was up for.
- Comedian works on several TV shows, still tours with stand-up routine
- Man behind 'Star Wars,' 'E.T.' scores to lead BSO
- Lineup includes Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Pulitzer-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin
- To take note of this New Year's milestone in history, the deep, soul-stirring voice of Marian Anderson seems appropriate, even essential.
- Doyle McManus says the Spielberg movie has become a political Rorschach test in Washington
