Monday, May 12, 2025
SAN DIEGO — Elton John did not perform “Swing For The Fences,” a standout number from his new album with Brandi Carlile, during his fog-shrouded Friday night Curebound Concert For Cure…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, May 11, 2025
It's been a chaotic week in Hollywood. Less than a week ago, President Trump called for 100% tariffs on movies made outside the U.S., a move meant to bring productions home that most people …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMLOS ANGELES — Liev Schreiber has plenty of pride for his daughter Kai, who he said came out as transgender with a simple request. "The most profound moment was her asking us to change her …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMSaturday, May 10, 2025
We keep hearing that we're in a male-loneliness epidemic. The agonizing and hilarious "Friendship" makes it feel like the Black Death. Written and directed by debuting filmmaker Andrew DeYou…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:45AMFORT WORTH, Texas — “Yellowstone” star Luke Grimes is returning as Kayce Dutton in a new television show. CBS announced this week that Grimes will star in “Y: Marshals” (working ti…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMAs ready-made horror titles go, "Clown in a Cornfield" says a lot with a little. There are of course no good places to run into a clown, but a cornfield would be high on the list of undesira…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, May 9, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Her hair is red, voluminous and wild. She walks with a swagger. Her voice is raspy, and not in a sexy kind of Lauren Bacall way, but more like Peter Falk. Long before finding…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:15AMMIAMI — It’s time to haul those pastels out of storage. “Miami Vice” is making a comeback. Again. A big-screen project is in the works more than three decades after the iconic TV sho…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Is there anything as dependable as the slasher movie formula? It waxes, wanes and winks its way through cultural cycles, but it is enduring; malleable yet sturdy, high or lowbrow (usually lo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, May 7, 2025
Take note: if you have any anxiety about flying, James Madigan’s “Fight or Flight” will not be for you. But if a cheap and cheerful one-setting action thriller a la “Bullet Train” …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMThings have been good for Josh Hartnett these past few years. The Y2K era teen star has established a fun new groove for himself, working in genre pictures like this week’s bonkers actione…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, May 6, 2025
Minnesotans will get the first chance to see how fast-rising pop star Benson Boone cuts it as an arena headliner. Fresh off his debut performance on “SNL” this past weekend, the “Beaut…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:35AMIn the first episode of the Apple TV+ show "The Studio," Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese sells his script to the fictional Continental Studios, only to be told later by a studio chief…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45AMFriday, May 2, 2025
Before the word "adult" attached to any form of media — books, movies, websites — became a synonym for "pornographic," it meant a sort of entertainment that was made for people who had e…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMHere are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, April 26, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, power…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSometimes, when a movie is set in a beautiful, far-off location, it’s for a reason intrinsic to the plot. And sometimes, when a movie is set in a beautiful, far-off location, it seems like…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMLOS ANGELES — Henry Golding revealed he has reconnected with several of his "Crazy Rich Asians" collaborators as the hit film, based on author Kevin Kwan's book trilogy, gets a future on t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, May 1, 2025
Debuting on Prime Video this week, “Another Simple Favor” honors its predecessor in more ways than one. For starters, the sequel to director Paul Feig’s 2018 black comedy mystery is pe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM'THUNDERBOLTS*' Rated PG-13 for strong violence, language, thematic elements, and some suggestive and drug references. What it’s about: A group of Marvel Cinematic Universe misfits band to…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, April 30, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Michael Bolton has glioblastoma, a treatment-resistant brain cancer that was behind the emergency surgery he had 16 months ago. After that surgery, during which a tumor was r…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:42PMClinton Kelly and Stacy London are back together, and if that statement does not excite you, it can only be because you have never seen "What Not to Wear," the series they co-hosted from 200…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM“Do what you love, but don’t do it at me, don’t aim it at me.” That’s Terrence Howard talking about gay men while explaining why he never portrayed singer Marvin Gaye onscreen. He …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMDALLAS — In January, Dallas musician Christopher Holt joined the Eagles — as in, one of the biggest rock groups of all time, as in, the freaking Eagles — at the Sphere in Las Vegas for…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMOK, so there’s nothing YUGE. There isn’t that movie right around the corner that’s so big it’s all some folks will be talking about. In May 2026, on the other hand, movie goers will …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, April 26, 2025
LOS ANGELES — It's showtime for Hollywood at the California Capitol. The state's entertainment industry has spent months begging for help from Sacramento to stem the decline of film and TV…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMLOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police on Friday released video from the shooting of Jillian Lauren, an author and the wife of Weezer bass player Scott Shriner. The LAPD said Lauren pointed a gu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:10AMFriday, April 25, 2025
LOS ANGELES — When promoter and convicted fraudster Billy McFarland sought to revive his infamous Fyre Festival this year, he wanted to do it "with honesty, transparency, relentless effort…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:00PMEnglish actor Tom Hardy is starring in a new British crime drama series on Showtime/Paramount+, “MobLand,” and his unique screen presence is the biggest reason the show rises to a level …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMDavid Cronenberg has long been one of our most provocative filmmakers, and at 82 years old, he's still pushing buttons. But in "The Shrouds," his latest dive into the nether regions of the h…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMATLANTA — When the first cross-country trans comedy show made it to Atlanta this week, its organizers were reminded of the power of old-fashioned, word-of-mouth advertising. It became thei…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
LOS ANGELES — The Tennessee Board of Parole has recommended country singer Jelly Roll for a pardon for his pre-fame criminal convictions. Nashville Sheriff Daron Hall announced Tuesday: "A…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:18PM 
