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NEW YORK — Singer-songwriter Carly Simon is mourning the loss of her two sisters this week.
Candidates in high-profile races nationwide are using celebrity appearances and endorsements as they try to reach voters. In Georgia, composer Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared to back Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and Oprah Winfrey recorded a video interview with Democratic challenger for governor Stacey Abrams. Republicans in Arizona and Nevada are turning to mixed martial arts figures. Such endorsements are nothing new, but it's unclear how much influence they have. Celebrities have also gone directly into politics in 2022. Football legend Herschel Walker is a Republican challenging Warnock, while television host Dr. Mehmet Oz is a Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania.
Netflix, after recent criticism from actor Judi Dench and former British Prime Minister John Major, has finally added a disclaimer to "The Crown," or at least to the trailer for its upcoming season.
There is an unlikely art house inspiration behind the collaboration between Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff on her acclaimed new album, "Midnights": French filmmaker Claire Denis' "Stars at Noon."
CHICAGO — Hollywood actress Sharon Stone is again boosting the work of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie on social media.
Taylor Swift has said that the third track off her 10th album, “Midnights,” released Friday, is in fact “one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written.”
This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Lainey Wilson and a Garbage anthology, the video on demand releases of horror films “Pearl” and “Barbarian” and the latest installment of the “Call of Duty” video game franchise. Another way to get in the Halloween mood is with Netflix’s “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” an anthology produced by the Oscar-winning filmmaker with the aim of challenging “traditional” expectations of horror. Ready to move to another holiday? A new Louis Armstrong Christmas album is also out Friday, Oct. 28. Netflix also releases “The Good Nurse,” which stars Jessica Chastain playing a nurse who discovers a colleague, played by Eddie Redmayne, is a serial killer.
CHICAGO — For Hayley Van Fulpen, the ritual of first-time listening to a Taylor Swift album usually consists of lying down in a quiet room, absorbing the music and processing the lyrics, alone.
James Corden knows what happened at Balthazar restaurant the couple of times he was accused of abusive behavior toward the staff.
Stephen Curry’s latest move is one for the books. The NBA superstar is launching a graphic novel series, “Stephen Curry Presents!: Sports Superheroes,” in partnership with Penguin Workshop. The first of four planned installments will focus on Curry’s career and is scheduled for fall 2024. The series will be created through the publishing arm of Unanimous Media, the company founded by Curry and Erick Peyton. Last month, Penguin released Curry’s picture book “I Have a Superpower.” The new series will be written by Rich Korson and Josh Bycel, with illustrations by Damion Scott.
If there's one business that Kanye West would be most upset to leave his orbit, it's likely Balenciaga.
The 1985 Trial of the Juntas was a seismic moment in Argentina’s history, helping to solidify the country’s democratic future after seven years of military dictatorship. But when filmmaker Santiago Mitre started talking about making a classic political thriller about the David vs. Goliath trial, in which public prosecutors Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo tried former military leaders for war crimes between 1976 and 1983, he was surprised to learn that few of his peers knew much about it. “Argentina, 1985,” which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, chronicles the momentous trial, which took place under extraordinary uncertainty and unease only two years after the dictatorship fell.
This isn't the first time that actor Ricardo Darín has helped shine a light into one of the dingiest rooms in Argentina's history: the military dictatorship that staged a right-wing coup d'etat and ruled his country between 1976 and 1983, during which as many as 30,000 people may have been m…
Director, playwright, screenwriter and four-time Academy Award nominee, Irishman Martin McDonagh is back after the Oscar-nominated triumph that was “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2017) with the Ireland-set, pitch-black comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin.” The film reunites actor…
Despite recent backlash from across the pond, Netflix is moving along with Season 5 of the "The Crown," releasing a dramatic trailer Tuesday that revisits one of the royal family's most public scandals.
Taylor Swift launched a midnight buffet of spoils early Friday following the release of her latest album, “Midnights.” Among the goodies? Seven bonus tracks and a music video for the song “Anti-Hero.”
Meghan Trainor is back with her doo-wop pop that made her famous, but now as a mother and wife, she's imparting all she learned along the way. Her new album “Takin' It Back” has moment of bursting confidence, self doubt and sadness with a sprinkle of reassuring reality. The Associated Press' Martina Inchingolo writes in a review that beginning to end, the album feels like a therapy session with Trainor holding a mirror to our fears. Songs like “Don't I Make It Look Easy” address the filter of reality and showing the best part of herself to the world, even when it feels like a lie.
Complex thought is mistaken for compelling storytelling in the technological dystopia of "The Peripheral," Prime Video's sci-fi drama about, well … I'm still trying to figure it out.
With "Wendell & Wild," visionary director Henry Selick ("The Nightmare Before Christmas," "Coraline") returns with his first movie in 13 years, a roller-coaster ride inside his dark sensibilities and the place where they collide with those of fellow horrorphile Jordan Peele.
In the trailer for "Black Adam," Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson's title character fights off all manner of obstacles — manmade and superhuman — and in the end, after seemingly besting all opponents, says, "There's no power on this planet that can stop me."
NEW YORK — Matt Smith is tired — very tired — but you wouldn't know it from speaking to him.
Dating in the 21st century might be a lonely time, but Carly Rae Jepsen has found a way to make an album around those experiences that’s as bright and hopeful as it is grounded, writes Associated Press reviewer Ragan Clark. From the euphoric “Sideways” to the heartbreak of “Go Find Yourself or Whatever,” on her sixth studio album, “The Loneliest Time,” the 36-year-old makes one thing clear: it’s rough out there in the dating world. Throughout the LP are disco and ’80s influences, heard most strongly on the title track and “Far Away.”
Dwayne Johnson is superbad in "Black Adam," George Clooney and Julia Roberts are on an island getaway in "Ticket to Paradise" and Cate Blanchett kicks off her Oscar campaign in "Tár," all of which are among this week's new movies and streaming titles.