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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…
LOS 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 is…
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 Competi…
ATLANTA " 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. The serie…
"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…
ATLANTA " 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"), tackling White…
LOS 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 Cloo…
SEATTLE -- 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 busine…
Yoko Ono will stage her first solo museum exhibition in Southern California at the Broad museum this spring. The legendary 92-year-old artist, activist and wife of John Lennon is set to open…
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…
You 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 title o…
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…
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 songwriter …
Two 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 editor…
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…
LOS ANGELES " Will Cinerama Dome ever reopen? Maybe. Dome Center LLC, the company that owns the property along Sunset Boulevard upon which the iconic movie venue stands, filed an application…
As in Henrik Ibsen's play "Hedda Gabler," this Hedda is an unhappy, complicated woman who has entered into a marriage with a man she doesn't love, in order to give her the social status she …
Welcome back, Sidney Prescott. The trailer for "Scream 7" released Thursday sees Neve Campbell's fan-favorite final girl once again having to fend off her longtime foe, a Ghostface-masked ki…
Polish director Jan Komasa might be best known in the United States for his 2019 Oscar-nominated film, "Corpus Christi," but his biggest box office success was in Poland, for his 2014 film "…
'STITCH HEAD' Rated PG for action, thematic elements and mild rude humor. What it's about: An animated riff on the Frankenstein story sees a mad professor's assistant, Stitch Head, learning …
In Nia DaCosta's elegantly searing drama "Hedda," Tessa Thompson makes a classic role entirely her own. As in Henrik Ibsen's play "Hedda Gabler," this Hedda is an unhappy, complicated woman …
Guillermo del Toro isn't the only filmmaker with a take on Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein's monster tale this Halloween season. Enter "Stitch Head," an animated film from British animat…
LOS ANGELES " Exactly a year after the Eaton fire broke out, musicians are banding together once more for an upcoming benefit show, called A Concert for Altadena. As a way to both raise fund…
LOS ANGELES " For the first time in seven years, Lily Allen is back with a new album. It's intimate, raw and autofictional. Last week, the "Smile" singer shared a 14-track breakup record, "W…
SAN DIEGO " Veteran rockabilly trio the Stray Cats won't be hitting the road for its 2025 fall concert tour after all. Citing "serious illness," the band's guitarist-singer, Brian Setzer, an…