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Playwright Aleshea Harris makes a bold cinematic debut with the screen adaptation of her Obie Award-winning play “Is God Is,” a harrowing and beautiful slice of surrealist neo-noir. Her fable depicts twin sisters on a revenge road trip, setting out to right the wrongs of their early childhood at the behest of their estranged mother, finding some catharsis along the way.

Four months after Catherine O'Hara's death, Macaulay Culkin is opening up about the loss of his "Home Alone" costar.

LOS ANGELES — Comedian Conan O’Brien will return to host the 99th Academy Awards set for March 14. O’Brien, known for his self-deprecating humor, emceed the Oscars this year and in 2025. “Conan has created remarkable energy around the Oscars,” President of Disney Television Group Craig Erwich said in a statement Tuesday announcing O’Brien’s return. “His singular comedic voice makes Hollywood’s ...

If there’s one thing that the actress Sally Field can do better than anything else, it involves her ability to cry on cue.

Be careful about reading too many detective novels to your pet sheep – they just might solve your murder. Or perhaps the fantastical plot of the appealing “The Sheep Detectives” is the best endorsement for exposing animals to works of mystery fiction, and an important correction to the stereotype that sheep aren’t the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's year-and-a-half long legal battle has come to an end weeks before they were scheduled to go to trial in New York City.

The bestselling “Remarkably Bright Creatures” comes to life on screen on Mother’s Day weekend. To celebrate this debut, author Shelby Van Pelt will join Northwest Passages Book Club in Spokane on May 12.

"Star Wars" fans, your own working Grogu could be yours — for a hefty price. Plenty of new toys are expected ahead of the May 22 release of "The Mandalorian and Grogu." But this particular toy may require some financial planning.

Let’s begin with the ultimate spoiler.

The last 20 years have been good for Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway). We first met the upstart journalist back in 2006, in David Frankel’s “The Devil Wears Prada,” written by Aline Brosh McKenna, based on the roman à clef by former Anna Wintour assistant Lauren Weisberger. Idealistic and more than a little bit green, young Andy took an unplanned detour into wild world of fashion as the assistant to ...

This year, the summer movie season begins with a walk down the runway. "The Devil Wears Prada 2" opens Friday, kicking off four months of fun in the sun at the movies. The May 1 weekend is oftentimes reserved for a superhero tentpole, but this year, Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly is the one welcoming audiences into summer. 

LOS ANGELES – “Michael” is a megahit.

After breaking big as a teenager with Disney’s “The Princess Diaries,” Anne Hathaway threaded a Hollywood needle. There were box office smashes (“The Devil Wears Prada”), awards fare (“Les Misérables,” for which she won an Oscar in 2013) and auteur-led efforts (“Rachel Getting Married”). But amid some personal exhaustion, a growing family and perplexing public backlash, Hathaway, now 43, receded some in recent years, landing firmly in a quieter place.

Jake Reiner, the eldest son of Rob and Michelle Reiner, published a tribute to his late parents on Friday and described the "living nightmare" he has experienced since their murders ​in December.

Prediction: Pastels are officially making a comeback. The rumors have been floating around a while, but now it’s official. “Miami Vice” is poised to change fashion choices for a new generation, Variety reports.

There are many uncanny things in “Michael,” the Michael Jackson biopic directed by Antoine Fuqua, that literally made my jaw drop. For example, Miles Teller’s eyebrows, inexplicably tinted and placed. He plays John Branca, the bulldog entertainment lawyer Michael Jackson hires to fire his abusive father/manager. Then there’s the computer-generated menagerie that Michael keeps on his family’s ...

DENVER — A dearly departed, geriatric Colorado beaver with a tree allergy served as a major inspiration for Pixar’s latest animated delight, “Hoppers.” Pixar creators studied Ginger, formerly a resident of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, as part of their research for the beaver-centric film with an eco-friendly message. Ginger retired to the big dam in the sky in 2022 when she ...

Nearly two years after actor Alec Baldwin was cleared of criminal charges in the "Rust" movie shooting death, a long simmering civil negligence case is inching toward a trial this fall. On Friday, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge denied a summary judgment motion requested by the film producers Rust Movie Productions LLC, as well as actor/producer Baldwin and his company El Dorado Pictures to ...

 Sitting down with Sir Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, you’d understandably assume they are longtime friends. The actors warmly chitchat about everything from indigestion to schoolyard bullies to their favorite Broadway shows, and at one point they break out into a warbling duet of “Memory” from “Cats.”