The last couple of years, while working on two different albums, singer-percussionist Sheila E. realized she had to shift gears.

One of the albums was a dance record; the other was an album she felt compelled to make after longtime friend Prince died in 2016. (They were frequent collaborators, and he's credited with transforming her career.)

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Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) is a tea broker who exudes confidence -- a quality that attracts the attention of perkily appealing socialite Diana Blacker (Claire Foy). The two look good together, and their marriage is a foregone conclusion. It's the 1950s, and the British couple seems destined for a bright, mostly untroubled future.

But ...Read more

Animal corpses tend to pile up with alarming regularity in the films of Yorgos Lanthimos -- just ask the cat in "Dogtooth," or the dog in "The Lobster." (You can't, sorry. They're dead.) So imagine my surprise that no antlered beasts are slaughtered in "The Killing of a Sacred Deer," a lightly blood-spattered but technically immaculate nightmare...Read more

In the mythology of personal growth, liberating yourself leads invariably to increased happiness. Yet what characterizes the seekers in the powerful "One of Us" is nothing that straightforward.

As directed by expert documentarians Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady ("Jesus Camp," "12th & Delaware"), "One of Us" spends two years following three ...Read more

The Gotham Awards announced nominees on Thursday, with "Get Out" leading the field with recognition in four categories, including best feature and breakthrough director and best screenplay for writer-director Jordan Peele.

"Call Me by Your Name," "Lady Bird," "The Florida Project" and "Columbus" had three nominations each.

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LOS ANGELES -- An Italian model-actress met with Los Angeles police detectives for more than two hours Thursday morning, providing a detailed account of new allegations that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her at a hotel in 2013.

She is the sixth woman to accuse Weinstein of rape or forcible sex acts. Los Angeles police Capt. ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The fiery editorials of Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. chief political analyst Boris Epshteyn will be beamed into seven in 10 American living rooms if the company is allowed to complete a merger that would transform it into a nationwide conservative TV juggernaut.

But Sinclair's proposed $3.9 billion purchase of Tribune Media Co. ...Read more

AMERICAN MADE. 3 stars. Tom Cruise stars in this fun but heavily fictionalized portrait of Barry Seal, a drug smuggler who found himself at the intersection of drug cartels and CIA adventurism in Central and South America in the 1970s and '80s. Directed by Doug Liman. 1 hr. 55 R (violence) -- Gary Thompson

ATOMIC BLONDE. 2.5 stars. Charlize ...Read more

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: There was a Jay Mohr series set in the film industry. What was its name? And was the studio head on that show based on Harvey Weinstein?

A: At first, I thought you might be asking if Weinstein inspired Peter Dragon, the movie producer played by Jay Mohr on "Action," a dark comedy that aired on Fox in...Read more

"Geostorm" finds ways to draw attention away from an interesting use of weather as a weapon by using a cold front of political jabber.

The problems in "Geostorm" were caused by director Dean Devlin and co-writer Paul Guyot as they have taken a passable action film and buried it under a tsunami of political muck. Politics can work – even in an...Read more

Mister Alfredson, you could have saved it. We gave you all the tools -- a star-studded cast, a blockbuster best-selling Scandinavian murder novel by Jo Nesbø, and three time Oscar winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker. So why is "The Snowman" such a jumbled nonsensical mess?

Director Tomas Alfredson has copped to the fact that scheduling issues ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- For the Weinsteins, it had always been Bob and Harvey against the world.

In 1979, the twenty-something rock promoters brought their unpolished demeanor, fast-talking style, and rough negotiating tactics to the movie business, naming their new film production company after their parents, Miriam and Max.

Together, they built a ...Read more

Technically speaking, she's now entitled to bragging rights as the world's first officially crowned "genius" banjo player.

The idea elicits a chuckle from Rhiannon Giddens. To be honest, she says, she isn't a fan of the "genius grant" nickname that's been widely used to describe the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship reward she has just collected ...Read more

The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of Oct. 9:

1. The Mummy (2017) -- Universal

2. Baby Driver -- Sony

3. Wonder Woman -- Warner

4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales -- Disney

5. Transformers: The Last Knight -- Paramount

6. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie -- Fox

7. 47 Meters Down -- Lionsgate

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LOS ANGELES -- Skylar Astin sees his role on the EPIX original series "Graves" as a little bit like getting paid to go to school. And his teachers are really good at what they do.

Astin plays Isaiah Miller, the overly eager assistant to Richard Graves (Nick Nolte). Miller finally gets to work for the man he has admired for so many years at the ...Read more