For Pico Iyer, making his acting debut in the hit movie “Marty Supreme” was the latest journey in a life full of unexpected ...

At CES 2026, Singapore-based company Sharpa has redefined general-purpose robotics with the debut of its first autonomous ...

Timothée Chalamet stars in Marty Supreme—a sports drama set in 1950s New York City that follows Marty Mauser, a pompous hustler on a mission to pursue his ping-pong dreams by any means necessary. The ...

Marty Reisman, the self-proclaimed “bad boy of table tennis,” was known for his eccentric and flamboyant style as well as his courtside showmanship. At home, though, he was a husband to his wife, ...

BOTTOM LINE Chalamet leaves it all on the table in this high-stakes drama about a small-scale sport. Marty Mauser looks like a harmless sort with his skinny arms, wire-rimmed glasses and peach-fuzz ...

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...

“Drama is very important to me. I can’t undercut the drama,” notes one of the year’s most deeply carved cinematic characters, Marty Mauser, played by Timothée Chalamet with a staggering commitment to ...

Long before Timothée Chalamet starred in “Marty Supreme” — the hotly anticipated movie that hits theaters nationwide on Christmas Day — there was Marty “The Needle” Reisman, the wild-eyed, high-strung ...

Scott Gordon admitted his feelings evolved on the much-anticipated movie “Marty Supreme.” Gordon, 65, a longtime competitive table tennis player who lives in Carmichael, consulted on the Josh ...

Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet’s new film, showed that he was a character in his own right. Marty Reisman won 22 major table tennis ...

Sweaty and self-confident, Timothée Chalamet swings a table tennis paddle like a madman in “Marty Supreme,” an unconventionally masterful sports flick that remarkably pulls off a reverse underdog ...

Amy Nicholson is the film critic of the Los Angeles Times. She is a current on-air voice at LAist and KCRW, and a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. and the National Society of Film Critics.