Friday, May 30, 2025
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 24, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:45AMThursday, May 29, 2025
The problem with “Karate Kid: Legends” is right there in the title: “legends,” as in multiple. Many beloved “Karate Kid” characters and icons of millennial sports movies enter th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM'BRING HER BACK' Rated R for strong disturbing bloody violent content, some grisly images, graphic nudity, underage drinking and language. What it’s about: A pair of orphaned step-siblings…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45AMWednesday, May 28, 2025
CANNES, France — Saturday’s awards ceremony put a capstone on another edition of the Cannes Film Festival, but the bruises we received from some of our favorite films are ones we’ll be…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMIn 2023, the Philippou twins, Danny and Michael, burst onto the global horror scene with their audacious, bone-rattling debut, “Talk to Me.” The film was a breakout for their star, Sophi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMTuesday, May 27, 2025
A legendary rap-metal guitarist took aim at President Donald Trump over the weekend and also defended iconic rocker Bruce Springsteen from recent Trump barbs. At the “Boston Calling” mus…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:50PMThe Disneyland Resort's new "World of Color" show begins with some regal nostalgia. Standing before a lagoon in Disney California Adventure, we hear the voice of Walt Disney, and see a host …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, May 23, 2025
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 17, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AM"Sirens," which premiered Thursday on Netflix, is an odd sort of a series, an interesting mix of hifalutin ideas, family drama and what might be called dark farce. Set over Labor Day weekend…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMLOS ANGELES — Breea Milburn has been a Stitch fan since the beginning. As a child, she got hooked after seeing the mischievous blue alien crash the fourth wall and disrupt scenes from clas…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMLOS ANGELES — On a spring afternoon in 2005, the members of OK Go dressed up in tacky suits, gathered in front of a video camera and awkwardly danced their way into history. The band's DIY…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:30AMWednesday, May 21, 2025
ATLANTA — “Shark Tank” seems like the quintessential American show: It celebrates plucky entrepreneurs trying to get money from already successful business people. There are spirited p…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMLAS VEGAS — Familiarity with the Strip is not a prerequisite for performers at the upcoming American Music Awards. But for a few superstars on the bill, it helps. Gwen Stefani and Blake Sh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe summer movie season has arrived, with Tom Cruise racing across virtually every multiplex screen in the country in what may or may not be the final "Mission: Impossible" movie. And there'…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, May 17, 2025
Being the Weeknd ain't all it's cracked up to be. That's the big takeaway from "Hurry Up Tomorrow," the Toronto pop superstar's convoluted new psychological thriller, a self-indulgent look a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMNEW YORK — The TV industry and buyers of commercial time were able to breathe a little easier going to their annual week of presentations known as the upfronts. Not long before the curtain…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:00AMFriday, May 16, 2025
Benito Skinner, whose history is largely in bite-sized internet comedy, has broken out into old-school media, creating a standard-issue, eight-episode sitcom, "Overcompensating," which premi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMAs the box office improves, will a steep discount on tickets bring more people to the multiplex this summer? That's what AMC Theatres is betting. The Leawood, Kan.-based chain said this week…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45AMThursday, May 15, 2025
Jamie Lee Curtis didn't expect to be at the forefront of the artificial intelligence debate in Hollywood. But she didn't have a choice. The Oscar-winning actor recently called out Meta Chief…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMMonday, 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 07:35AM 
