Thursday, November 20, 2025
PHILADELPHIA — The Delco crime thriller "Task," starring Mark Ruffalo, will be getting a second season, HBO announced on Thursday. From "Mare of Easttown" creator and Berwyn native Brad In…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:07PMDETROIT — Comedian and Metro Detroit native Tim Robinson's character may or may not get to the bottom of the central mystery of "The Chair Company" before the show's eight-episode first se…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:52PMSAN DIEGO — Al Jardine’s endless summer officially began when he was 18 and co-founded the Beach Boys in 1961. It hasn’t stopped yet. “I’m still enjoying this too much to think of …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AMCall him a master wordsmith, formal innovator, Booker prize winner, Nobel laureate-in-waiting, a sorcerer. Call him Sir Salman Rushdie. He slips into a story as gracefully as Laurence Olivie…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMBrandon Taylor’s fourth book, “Minor Black Figures,” begins in New York City in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. As political and societal tides shi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AM"Thoughts & Prayers," which premiered Tuesday on HBO, is a documentary film about the $3 billion "active shooter preparedness industry," that space where American failure meets American …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMLOS ANGELES — It takes a certain composure, as a teenager, to walk out onto Taylor Swift's stage in a sold-out stadium and play an opening set to tens of thousands of fans who have never h…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMWednesday, November 19, 2025
LOS ANGELES — One of L.A.'s most promising young musicians can trace her career back to the moment she decided to run away from home. Or did her mom kick her out? "It's hard to explain," A…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:45AMMINNEAPOLIS — Following up an acclaimed TV drama with another hit is as difficult as winning back-to-back World Series. Just ask “Deadwood” creator David Milch, who flopped with “Joh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AM“You’re the last of the old movie stars,” someone tells Jay Kelly, and because Jay Kelly — main character of a movie called, not surprisingly, “Jay Kelly” — is played by George…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMComing right up, in this year’s holiday movie season: a sure-to-be-blockbuster musical, a comedic murder mystery, a return-to-Pandora sequel, a drama involving William Shakespeare and a co…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMTuesday, November 18, 2025
Two more horses in the crowded field of psychological thrillers have come out of the gate: "Malice," now streaming from Prime Video, and "The Beast in Me," on Netflix. Neither is especially …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMLOS ANGELES — Clad in close-fitting black outfits, two performers get into stance for a fight scene. The cameras surrounding the massive stage in Playa Vista start rolling. One turns aroun…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMI can't name a single song by the Jonas Brothers, but I can tell you their names — Joe, Kevin and Nick — and that they made a sitcom, "Jonas" (second season titled "Jonas L.A."), back in…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMSaturday, November 15, 2025
LOS ANGELES — The Alchemist's world changed when he first discovered the Beastie Boys. "Seeing them, these white Jewish guys who were rapping and on tour with Run-D.M.C. was crazy to me," …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMThursday, November 13, 2025
For “Beard” author Kelly Foster Lundquist, the signs were there. Her husband reminded her of Montgomery Clift (gay), they moved to the rainbow-striped Chicago neighborhood known as Boyst…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AMIt’s no secret that Pennsylvania’s two most powerful Democrats do not get along. Sen. John Fetterman and Gov. Josh Shapiro are stylistic opposites who have butted heads over the years. N…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:20AMWednesday, November 12, 2025
When asked how much of the alien language used by the franchise's central hunter species he is able to speak, "Predator: Badlands" director Dan Trachtenberg quickly answers, "Zero." "My mout…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMLOS ANGELES — Four hours or so before he's due onstage at the Hollywood Palladium, Yungblud is bouncing around one of the venue's dressing rooms with live-wire intensity to spare. Tonight …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMTuesday, November 11, 2025
PHILADELPHIA — Samara Joy will celebrate her birthday in Philadelphia. The jazz singer’s career has been ascendant since 2019, when she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Com…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMATLANTA — It’s a touchdown for Hulu comedy series “Chad Powers,” which is coming back for a second season in metro Atlanta, according to information provided to a local crew union. T…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AM"Stumble," a new sitcom that premiered last week on NBC, takes Greg Whiteley's great docuseries "Cheer," about competitive cheerleading, runs it through "The Bad News Bears" and frosts it in…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMATLANTA — Tyler Perry has spread his fictional wings in recent years beyond Atlanta, taking a historical trip to Europe during World War II (Netflix’s “The Six Triple Eight”), tackli…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMLOS ANGELES — Billy Crudup knew the first time he read it that the part was nearly impossible. In Noah Baumbach's sharply funny, at times melancholy Hollywood satire "Jay Kelly," George Cl…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMSEATTLE -- Many things about zero-waste designer Janelle Abbott’s relationship to the fashion industry have changed since she was a kid growing up around her parents' Seattle clothing busi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00AMFriday, November 7, 2025
Officials in Irvington, New Jersey, had an idea. To raise awareness about the dangers of opioid use and addiction, the township could host concerts with popular R&B artists like Q Parker…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMYou have questions. I have some answers. Q: Where can I find the intriguing documentary “Chuck Norris vs. Communism”? It came out a few years ago and mysteriously disappeared. A: The tit…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMThursday, November 6, 2025
After going global for its second volume, "Star Wars: Visions" Volume 3 brings the anthology series back to its roots with a new slate of shorts all created by Japanese anime studios. Each s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMWednesday, November 5, 2025
LOS ANGELES — A little over a year ago, Madi Diaz lay in bed in an apartment near Dodger Stadium sweating out a gnarly case of COVID-19. The Nashville, Tennessee-based singer and songwrite…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:40AMTwo new collections, “Night Watch” by Kevin Young and “Startlement: New and Selected Poems” by Ada Limón, showcase strikingly different voices in contemporary poetry. Young, poetry …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00AMSunday, November 2, 2025
President Donald Trump's favorite musical is, famously, "Les Misérables," but few fans have been storming the barricades to get into the Kennedy Center this season. The Washington Post repo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AM 
