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A nuclear missile is headed toward America " toward the Midwest, specifically " and there's only 19 minutes to impact. That's the insanely urgent doomsday scenario set up in director Kathryn…
LOS ANGELES -- Don't tell Fritz Coleman it's no fun getting old. Coleman spent almost four decades as NBC4's whimsical weatherman, a key player in what was arguably the most veteran broadcas…
Isabelle Adora Tate, an aspiring actress and songwriter who finally got her big break on the series premiere of "9-1-1: Nashville" earlier this month, has died at age 23. The McCray Agency c…
LOS ANGELES " Let's start with the "Gracias Gustavo" merch: T-shirts, hoodies, tote bags, fridge magnets, posters, etc. There was the daylong "Gracias Gustavo" block party at Beckmen YOLA Ce…
DETROIT " This year's Windsor International Film Festival is packing a punch, and not just the right hook Sydney Sweeney is throwing in her new boxing drama "Christy." The 11-day film fest i…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 11, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powere…
As evidenced by 2012's "Sinister" and 2021's "The Black Phone," director Scott Derrickson has a gift for blending realism with the supernatural " and for conjuring a sense of dread that the …
LOS ANGELES " Michael Archer Jr., the son of R&B stars D'Angelo and Angie Stone, has been dealing with grief for months " long before the death of his father on Tuesday. The 28-year-old …
LOS ANGELES " Drew Struzan, the artist who created some of the most recognizable posters for movies including "Star Wars," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Blade Runner" and "Back to the Future,"…
LOS ANGELES " D'Angelo, the soul and R&B singer who kicked off music's neo-soul movement with virtuosic, sensual and spiritually searching albums like "Brown Sugar" and "Voodoo," has die…
Work! It's the thing most of us have to do, some of us like to do and many of us would rather not do, and it's no surprise that it's the subject of so much TV. Workplace comedy has been resp…
"Now serving G455 at Window No. 5" ... "Now serving G456 at Window No. 12." Neither of us has an appointment at the DMV in Hollywood. But Harriet Dyer strolls through the sliding doors like …
LOS ANGELES " A year after tech firm OpenAI roiled Hollywood with the release of its Sora AI video tool, Chief Executive Sam Altman was back " with a potentially groundbreaking update. Unlik…
MINNEAPOLIS " William H. Macy has played his fair share of weasels: manipulative drunkard Frank Gallagher in "Shameless," gullible thief Bobby in "American Buffalo" and, of course, Jerry Lun…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 4, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered…
TRON: ARES Rated PG-13 for violence/action. What it's about: The third TRON movie sees the grid invading the real world as two tech companies strive for AI dominance. The kid attractor facto…
ATLANTA " Ink is keen on building a "sound you can trust." That was her thesis while busking throughout the streets of Atlanta in the early 2010s, with her cowboy hat and boots in tow. The C…
LOS ANGELES " A hot late-summer breeze blows across a Burbank parking lot as Lorde sits beneath a tattered canopy outside the rehearsal studio where she's preparing for her latest world tour…
An interview with Bill Murray opens "John Candy: I Like Me," director Colin Hanks' formulaic but richly enjoyable documentary about the late, great Canadian comedic actor. Murray apologizes …
LOS ANGELES -- In a pop era where personal messiness is the oxygen of fame, Dua Lipa is the rare unfazed professional. Just as Taylor Swift and Charli XCX's (extremely asymmetrical) feud spi…
Kimberly Hébert Gregory, who was best known as the brash principal in HBO's "Vice Principals," has died. She was 52. A cause of death was not immediately reported. Gregory's former husband,…
LOS ANGELES " Benny Safdie's eyes begin to well up at the memory of it. At September's world premiere of his new film "The Smashing Machine" at the Venice Film Festival, during an intense, e…
DETROIT " The Smashing Pumpkins are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their landmark double album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness," and they're dusting off some live tracks from De…
LOS ANGELES " Ed Gein may not be America's most infamous serial killer " he's eclipsed by the likes of Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer in the public imagination " but his macabre crimes were fo…
Hayley Williams is happy to confirm that Morgan Wallen is the "racist country singer" she is referring to in her song "Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party." During a recent interview on the Ne…