Statehouse reporter Stephen Gruber-Miller is an Iowa native who leads the Des Moines Register's Capitol bureau.

When can you rightly say a film has been “overlooked”? The measure of that isn’t nearly as objective as the box office — or ...

Tens of thousands of Californians have been displaced and many have lost their homes as rampaging wildfires scorch the Los ...

Film critic A.A. Dowd makes the case that Sean Baker's tragicomedy Anora is the best film of 2024, before sharing his other picks for the year's finest.

Gazette Family of Newspapers looks back on the highlights of Bob Cudmore's stories in the Focus on History column in 2024.

Fresh from the cinema, these three films explore the craft, the challenges and the beauty of capturing life through a lens.

In Miller’s interpretation, the commercial exposes the hidden tensions and power dynamics of gender, work and personal identity, offering a satirical glimpse into the psychological costs of ...

Now John Tiffany, the magician director of the Harry Potter plays, aims to sprinkle the star-making dust over the stage ...

Those of us who’ve crammed into Grandma or Uncle Gus’ house for a family Xmas party will intensely feel the VIBES of Christmas Eve in Miller’s ... Christmas-movie formulas, which plays ...

Charles Shyer, who was Oscar-nominated for co-writing “Private Benjamin” with Nancy Meyers and went on to direct a string of ...

Sonic 3 opted for an equally dramatic but less graphic explosion. The blast killed Maria (Alyla Browne) and gave Shadow ...