CHICAGO -- Chicago police investigating the Jussie Smollett case apparently inadvertently taped 37 seconds of a private conversation between a key witness and his lawyer last year -- a tape that has since made it into the hands of Smollett's defense team, which says it helps prove the actor's innocence.

The video of conversation between ...Read more

For a time, it appeared that Tim Van Patten's most significant contribution to television would be playing a baller named Salami. Instead, the former "White Shadow" star has become HBO's most successful director -- and arguably the greatest visionary in TV and film.

"When I see director Tim Van Patten's name on a show, I know I'm about to see ...Read more

Chrishell Stause has been counting down to the third season of Netflix's "Selling Sunset."

"I have been having crushing anxiety about this," she told the LA Times. "I've been waiting for the show to come out for so long, and to look back on it is really painful because it was an extremely difficult time in my life. And people are going to make ...Read more

Mark Rylance is one of the great chameleons of the stage; his recent film work, remarkable in its own right, has hewed to a narrower path. That may be an odd thing to say about an actor whose characters include a jaded Soviet spy, a Steve Jobsian tech visionary and the BFG, but it's true nonetheless: In each of these roles, whether wearing ...Read more

With a gorgeous location, pretty people and familiar story, "Made in Italy" is too gentle to make an impression.

Jack (Micheal Richardson) is an English 20-something faced with losing his connection to an art gallery through divorce. He enlists his somewhat-famous painter father Robert (Liam Neeson) to renovate a grand house they own in Tuscany...Read more

To anyone starting out in music journalism around 2000, "Almost Famous" -- director Cameron Crowe's warm-and-fuzzy remembrance of his adventures as a teenage Rolling Stone writer -- felt about as old-timey as that year's other big music-historical fantasy, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Twenty years later, a new documentary about Rolling Stone's ...Read more

She has lit up awards shows and concert stages, soared up various Billboard charts, starred in commercials. She even appeared on the silver screen in "Hustlers" with J.Lo.

Are you ready for Lizzo, TV star?

The Grammy-grabbing, Minneapolis-launched superstar, who was named Time magazine's entertainer of the year for 2019, has signed a first-...Read more

As you decide whether you're ready to return to the multiplex, "The Burnt Orange Heresy," perhaps the first new movie in theaters in months, offers a few things to get excited about.

The sleekly perverted art-world thriller was crafted by Scott B. Smith, for starters. He wrote two dandy novels ("A Simple Plan," which became a made-in-Minnesota ...Read more

The pandemic shut down major Hollywood productions in March and five months later it is still unclear when most TV and film projects will start back up again.

In Chicago, right now is typically when the three NBC shows from Dick Wolf ("Chicago Fire," "Chicago Med" and "Chicago P.D.") begin work on the new season. That's obviously been delayed. ...Read more

Fear and uncertainty are as familiar in 2020 as Zoom meetings and social distancing. Still, you have to stay positive, establish a healthy routine and find ways to cope with what can feel like existential dread.

That's what makes an early scene from "She Dies Tomorrow," available on streaming platforms and video on demand, so scary. During a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- It's about five months into the pandemic, and no one is dressing for the screen. This goes for both the tiny, gridded screen of your WFH videoconference (admit it, you're still wearing sweatpants), as well as the TV and movie screens of Hollywood where production abruptly halted back in mid-March as part of California's effort to ...Read more

Actress Alyssa Milano says she has tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, despite twice testing negative for the virus itself when she was sick.

On Wednesday, the "Charmed" alum shared her coronavirus story in a lengthy Instagram post detailing her myriad symptoms, which included a loss of smell, trouble breathing, drastic weight loss, "...Read more