Friday, August 15, 2025
LOS ANGELES— Are we in for a new age of scripted basic cable television? Given the successes of the old age, which threaded its way between broadcast and premium cable TV, a little bolder …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMHere are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 9, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMCarl F. Hess II felt a lump catch in his throat. His eyes welled. The 38-year-old portrait artist and award-winning high school art teacher won’t let himself think it for long. But the dre…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMThursday, August 14, 2025
Family guide to new movie releases — "Highest 2 Lowest" and "Nobody 2." 'HIGHEST 2 LOWEST' Rated R for language throughout and brief drug use. What it’s about: A wealthy music mogul is f…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMWednesday, August 13, 2025
Bucking tradition once again, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his picks for Kennedy Center Honors and said he will host the ceremony himself — a first for any president. Acto…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:24PMThrillers, thrillers, thrillers, so many thrillers. Every third show I review seems to be one, and even if that math is not perfectly correct, the seeming is real enough. Sometimes they are …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMFor his latest film “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee has turned to one of his influences, and one of cinema's most iconic filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa, remaking his 1963 film “High and Low.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMTuesday, August 12, 2025
DETROIT — A jazz legend with a long, storied career and a global fan base, Detroit-born singer Sheila Jordan died on Monday in her home in New York City at the age of 96. Named a National …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:54PMSaturday, August 9, 2025
PHILADELPHIA — The fictional documentary team who filmed "The Office" is back. This time, they are spotlighting a different (but still wacky) workplace in the Peacock series "The Paper," p…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMDALLAS — A recent Paramount Global earnings call previewed the fall slate for the company’s streamer, Paramount+. Spoiler alert: Fort Worth-raised show maker Taylor Sheridan’s name is …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMThursday, August 7, 2025
Rarely does a movie largely concerned with riffing on its past feel as fresh as “Freakier Friday.” The sequel to 2003 Disney fave “Freaky Friday” — the third adaptation of Mary Rod…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:20AMWednesday, August 6, 2025
WILLOUGHBY, Ohio — The version of Sandusky that serves as the primary setting of the movie “Tommy Boy” has only so much in common with the actual city in north-central Ohio. While a co…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AMFor anyone who lived through the tabloid years of the aughts, Lindsay Lohan’s joyful return to the big screen isn’t just cause for celebration, it’s something that once seemed highly i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMTuesday, August 5, 2025
LOS ANGELES — An experiment intended to rid "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" alum Brandi Glanville of a facial parasite left the former reality TV star with chemical burns. In a shor…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:30PMI will say this: I should be watching more cartoons. It has been harder to indulge this passion for some of the best, most pleasurable work television has to offer with so many ordinary seri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:20AMSunday, August 3, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Shakira Austin didn't realize how important fashion would become when she entered the WNBA in 2022. Her introduction to game-day tunnel fashion began at the University of Mis…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMFriday, August 1, 2025
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 26, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powere…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMYou have questions. I have some answers. Q: Many decades ago, I saw a show that began with a close-up of a man putting eye drops in his eyes and then letting out a bloodcurdling scream. I do…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMLOS ANGELES — Greg Saunier already had reasons to be wary of Spotify. The founder of the acclaimed Bay Area band Deerhoof was well acquainted with the service's meager payouts to artists a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMThe practice of building a situation comedy around a stand-up comedian is hallowed television practice, going back to Jack Benny and Danny Thomas and running forward through Bob Newhart, Ros…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMThursday, July 31, 2025
Look, the Bad Guys are trying their best. In the new animated romp “The Bad Guys 2,” the gang of anthropomorphic animals led by the Sam Rockwell-voiced Mr. Wolf has served its time in th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMEverywhere you look, something reminds you of it. “It,” in this case, is the absurdly funny, ridiculously silly 1988 slapstick comedy “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!”…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMWednesday, July 30, 2025
LOS ANGELES — The closing night selection of this year's New York Film Festival will be the world premiere of "Is This Thing On?" the latest film directed by Bradley Cooper. The film will …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:18AMLOS ANGELES — Adam Lambert sits on a rickety wooden chair just outside the main chapel at the Hollywood United Methodist Church on a break from rehearsing the musical "Jesus Christ Superst…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMThe idea of maintaining one's individuality while in a relationship or losing that sense of identity altogether and melding as a couple is taken to a hilarious, grotesque high in "Together,"…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMIn the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, “The Naked Gun” movies starring Leslie Nielsen were wildly popular and the height of absurdist comedy. The franchise gets revived this week with a ne…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMTuesday, July 29, 2025
Over the years, Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con has built a reputation — and an expectation — as the room where Hollywood juggernauts in attendance at the annual pop culture extravaganza u…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMSydney Chandler has wanted to attend San Diego Comic-Con as a fan for years. So it's "surreal" that the actor's first experience with the annual pop culture expo is to promote her upcoming F…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMMonday, July 28, 2025
Tom Lehrer, an acerbic songwriter and Harvard-trained mathematician who rose to fame in the 1950s and '60s by pillorying the sensibilities of the day, has died at age 97. Lehrer died at his …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:12AMSaturday, July 26, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Since its launch in November 2022, hundreds of millions of people have used ChatGPT to write wedding toasts, college essays, apology texts, bad jokes and even worse poetry. B…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMThursday, July 24, 2025
Dip a toe into any contemporary cultural anthropology, and it’s clear that the current state of dating (mostly for heterosexual people) is a mess. Men won’t commit, women’s standards a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AM 
