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When the Oscars broadcast begins April 25 on ABC, there won’t be an audience. For the producers, the challenges of COVID are an opportunity to, finally, rethink the Oscars.

The pandemic has upended the Oscars. Good, producers say

Ninety seconds. That’s how quickly Steven Soderbergh believes the Academy Awards will convince viewers that this year’s telecast is different.

When Orson Welles doesn’t make the cut

That the only streaming version available of his ‘Touch of Evil’ is a studio reedit is a cinematic sin.

Doc Talk: bearing witness, creating Oz, watching whales

Documentaries screening or streaming in the Greater Boston area.

In Focus: Are you a ‘Squatcher’? That’s what believers in Bigfoot are called

Known as “Squatchers,” most are kooky in their cultishness, but they also include an anthropologist with a collection of plaster-cast footprints and assorted hair samples who perfunctorily claims, based on such evidence, that Bigfoot exists.

Barbara Crampton in "Jakob's Wife."
‘Jakob’s Wife’: part vampire movie, part female empowerment
A gruesome, funny, and proudly low-budget horror comedy about a meek pastor’s wife who rediscovers her self-esteem when she’s bitten by a vampire and starts craving blood.

Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough in "Monday."
In ‘Monday,’ Greece is the word
Two Americans in Greece try to turn a weekend fling into a long-term relationship in this pretty but dull romantic drama.

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Reece Shearsmith in "In the Earth."

‘In the Earth’: at play in the fields of the weird

A gorgeously shot tale of suspense and gonzo humor in the deep, eldritch forest. It's a feast for the senses even when it’s not making much sense.

Don Knotts, right, in "The Incredible Mr. Limpet."

The Globe staff’s favorite kids movies

What was your favorite movie when you were a kid? Here are some of ours.

Netflix scored a multi-year deal that will make it the new streaming home to Sony Pictures’ top releases in the U.S. Beginning next year, Sony’s new films will stream domestically on Netflix after their theatrical runs. That includes movies in popular franchises like “Spider-Man,” “Venom” and “Jumanji.” (Hiram Garcia/Sony via AP)

Netflix scores streaming rights to new top Sony films

The streaming service further beefed up its film catalog on Thursday in a multi-year deal that will make it the new home to Sony Pictures’ top releases in the U.S.

Producer Scott Rudin and the cast of "Hello, Dolly!" accepted the award for best revival of a musical during the 2017 Tony Awards.

Famous producer, infamous boss

Hollywood’s history of toxic executives has a new one-man chapter, Scott Rudin

Members of the staff at Cerrahpaşa Hospital, as seen in "Phases of Matter."

Doc Talk: Medical practice, paternity test, musical inspiration

Had Frederick Wiseman’s “Hospital” (1970) wandered into Lars von Trier’s “The Kingdom” (1994-2022) the unlikely result might have resembled Maddenin Halleri’s haunting and hypnotic “Phases of Matter” (2020), one of the documentaries at this year’s Boston Turkish Film Festival (April 15-30).

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Lily-Rose Depp in "Voyagers."

In ‘Voyagers,’ teens make the scene — and the scene’s in outer space

It’s basically “Lord of the Flies in Space Plus Women,” with Tye Sheridan and Lily-Rose Depp in the lead roles and Colin Farrell as the one grown-up on board.

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Aurelio Conterno with his dog Birba in "The Truffle Hunters."

In ‘The Truffle Hunters,’ Old Masters of a different sort of art

A lovely, moving documentary about the old men of northern Italy and the beloved dogs that help them dig up Tuber magnatum, the prized White Alba truffle.

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Rachel Sennott in "Shiva Baby."

‘Shiva Baby’: You don’t have to be Jewish

A young woman attends a Jewish wake and runs into a) her high school girlfriend and b) her sugar daddy, who’s there with his wife and baby.