Movie & TV News

February 24, 2020

Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 1-7

March 1: Actor Robert Clary ("Hogan's Heroes") is 94. Singer-actor Harry Belafonte is 93. Singer Mike D'Abo of Manfred Mann ...

February 23, 2020

Box office goes 'Sonic' again but hears 'Call of the Wild'

The hedgehog edged the sled dog by a nose at the box office. “Sonic: The Hedgehog” zoomed to the top of the box office with ...

February 22, 2020

Unscripted 'Friends' reunion special to launch with HBO Max

WarnerMedia's new streaming service will debut with some extra “Friends.” The company announced Friday that the entire ...

February 22, 2020

Meet the rising stars of 'West Side Story' on Broadway

When a new revival of “West Side Story” opens on Broadway, it will make history. The musical sees 33 young people making ...

February 21, 2020

OWN's 'Cherish the Day' is a rare celebration of black love

To separate filmmaker and TV producer Ava DuVernay’s trenchant, history-driven projects, including “Selma” and “When They See ...

February 20, 2020

Success of 'To All the Boys' puts stars on Hollywood's radar

The 2018 release of the Netflix teen rom-com "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," changed the lives of its stars, Lana Condor ...

February 20, 2020

'Black in Space' looks at final frontier of civil rights

In 1959, Ronald Erwin McNair walked into a South Carolina library. The 9-year-old aspiring astronaut wanted to check out a ...

February 20, 2020

'Sonic' speeds to $57M debut; 'Parasite' sees big Oscar bump

The redesigned “Sonic the Hedgehog” showed plenty of teeth at the box office, speeding to a $57 million debut, according to ...

February 20, 2020

Jennifer Lawrence to star in Adam McKay comedy for Netflix

Jennifer Lawrence will star in the Adam McKay comedy “Don't Look Up” for Netflix. The streaming giant on Wednesday announced ...

February 20, 2020

Review: A CGI canine yearns to be free in 'Call of the Wild'

Does the dog movie have any new tricks? Do we want it to? For the most part, we want our dog movies like our pooches: ...

February 19, 2020

Review: Austen's 'Emma,' humanized but not modernized

There's beauty to spare in the new screen adaptation of Jane Austen's “Emma,” from its palatial country estates with their ...

February 19, 2020

'NCIS' leads the way on quiet television week

Two long-running television competitions, “American Idol" and “Survivor,” debuted new seasons this past week but it was ...

February 19, 2020

Eugene Hernandez named director of New York Film Festival

Eugene Hernandez will succeed Kent Jones as the director of the New York Film Festival, becoming only the fifth person to ...

February 19, 2020

Bong happy 'Parasite' succeeded despite disparity it showed

Oscar-winning “Parasite” director Bong Joon-ho said Wednesday the film's "biggest pleasure and the most significant meaning” ...

February 18, 2020

'Fresh Off the Boat' leaving indelible mark on TV landscape

Even before “Fresh Off the Boat” hit the airwaves on ABC in February 2015, the show was facing pressure that other new shows ...

February 18, 2020

The top 10 movies on the iTunes Store

iTunes Store/App Store/Apple Books charts for February 16th iTunes Movies US Charts: 1. Frozen II 2. Parasite 3. Ford v ...

February 18, 2020

'True Grit' novelist Charles Portis dies at age 86

Novelist Charles Portis, a favorite among critics and writers for such shaggy dog stories as "Norwood" and "Gringos" and a ...

February 17, 2020

Ratings for NBA All-Star Game rise by 8 percent

Ratings for the NBA All-Star Game were up 8% over last year, with an average of 7.3 million viewers watching Sunday night’s ...

February 16, 2020

'Parasite' director Bong greeted by applause in South Korea

Director Bong Joon-ho smiled and waved at a waiting crowd on Sunday as he arrived home in South Korea, his first trip back ...

February 16, 2020

Young Ugandan who featured in a Disney chess film dies at 15

A Ugandan student who played a memorable role in a 2016 Disney film about a local chess prodigy has died at the age of 15.