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ARTICLES BY JOHN JURGENSEN

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey featuring actors Matt Damon and Tom Holland. (HT_PRINT)

Christopher Nolan breaks down the epic scene at the center of ‘The Odyssey’

6 min read . 22 Jul 2026

Sean “Diddy” Combs was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges but convicted for prostitution offenses and sentenced in October to just over four years in prison. (REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo)

How 50 Cent’s feud with Diddy fueled the no. 1 show on Netflix

6 min read . 14 Dec 2025

Timothée Chalamet attends a premiere of the film A Complete Unknown at Dolby theatre in Los Angeles, California, U.S. (REUTERS)

How Timothée Chalamet learned to sound like Bob Dylan

6 min read . 25 Dec 2024

Francis Ford Coppola spent over $100 million of his own money to make ‘Megalopolis.’ Photography by Rahim Fortune for WSJ. Magazine

Francis Ford Coppola bet more than $100 million on his legacy. Now what?

15 min read . 26 Sept 2024

US actress June Squibb. (File Photo: AFP)

This summer’s breakout star is a 94-year-old actress

4 min read . 13 Jun 2024

John Mulaney hosted the live talk show ’Everybody’s in L.A.’ for six nights at the Netflix Is a Joke festival. (Netflix)

Netflix has every big comedian. Can it keep them?

6 min read . 10 May 2024

Former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza coordinated the harrowing battle scenes that take place during ‘Civil War.’

‘Civil War’ is more real than you suspect

4 min read . 24 Apr 2024

Takashi Yamazaki, the writer, director and visual-effects supervisor of Godzilla Minus One, said he wanted to remind audiences that Godzilla was a metaphor for the atom bomb and war. (Toho International)

How ‘Godzilla Minus One’ reimagined the monster and snagged an Oscar nod

4 min read . 05 Mar 2024

Hiroyuki Sanada and his collaborators spent the last five years on a new version of ‘Shōgun’ that would rebalance the story’s East-meets-West theme and do justice to the complex narrative of the novel. PHOTO: KEITH OSHIRO FOR WSJ. MAGAZINE

Hollywood’s Favorite Samurai Reimagines ‘Shogun’

7 min read . 16 Feb 2024

Jon Stewart during his first night back at Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show’ on Monday. PHOTO: MATT WILSON/COMEDY CENTRAL’S THE DAILY SHOW

Jon Stewart Returns as ‘The Daily Show’ Host, Roasts Biden, Trump and Himself

4 min read . 13 Feb 2024

‘As someone who had emigrated, I got what it was like to oscillate between two worlds,’ Bazawule says of the story of ‘The Color Purple.’

How Director Blitz Bazawule Went From a Beyoncé Film to ‘The Color Purple’

4 min read . 07 Dec 2023

Matthew Perry Was an Ambassador of Gen X Snark for Today’s Young ‘Friends’ Fans

Matthew Perry Was an Ambassador of Gen X Snark for Today’s Young ‘Friends’ Fans

4 min read . 31 Oct 2023

A forthcoming song from the Beatles, seen here in 1968, is billed as the final new recording by the band. APPLE CORPS LTD.

A ‘New’ Beatles Song Reunites the Voices of John, Paul, George and Ringo

7 min read . 26 Oct 2023

Scorsese has a memory for mistakes, says his friend Fran Lebowitz, and often cites the color red in ‘Taxi Driver’ as one.

Martin Scorsese Is Flipping the Script

13 min read . 18 Oct 2023

The five-minute scene helped a three-hour period film from South India translate to international audiences

How ‘RRR’ created the most rollicking movie scene of the year

5 min read . 03 Mar 2023

An Oscars statuette on display at a screening of the Oscars in Paris, France (Photo: Reuters)

‘The Power of the Dog’ leads Oscar nominations with 12 nods

1 min read . 08 Feb 2022

A still from from Yellowstone

‘Yellowstone’ is a huge hit that started with small-town fans

4 min read . 02 Jan 2022

Should you watch the 2021 Oscars? A skeptic’s guide

7 min read . 22 Apr 2021