Dustin Diamond's former Bayside High classmates are sending well-wishes after their "Saved by the Bell" co-star was diagnosed with cancer.

Mario Lopez and Tiffani Thiessen, who played jock A.C. Slater and head cheerleader Kelly Kapowski, respectively, in the hit 1990s sitcom, both reacted Thursday to news that Diamond, who played the geeky ...Read more

Glory to the Venice International Film Festival!

Visionary "Parasite" director Bong Joon Ho has been appointed jury president of the 2021 edition of the festival, organizers announced Friday. The 2020 Oscar winner will become the first Korean filmmaker to serve in the prestigious role when the annual event launches in September.

"The Venice ...Read more

In a normal year, the Sundance Film Festival is centered on the remote ski town of Park City, Utah. This obviously is not a normal year.

Sundance has shifted to a largely virtual program for 2021, with limited in-person events at satellite venues around the country. And that means audiences can access the festival, which runs Jan. 28-Feb. 3, ...Read more

Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, a founding member of the seminal punk band New York Dolls, has died after a battle with cancer, his wife announced. The Egyptian-born rocker was 69.

Sylvain was diagnosed with cancer 2 1/2 years ago and died Wednesday, according to a Facebook post from spouse Wendy Mizrahi. He was one of the five original members when...Read more

The Avengers have traveled to the corners of the universe. But two members face their most daunting challenge yet when they find themselves grounded in sitcomland.

In the new series "WandaVision," Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) are attempting to blend into neighborhoods previously inhabited by the ...Read more

Julie Dash launched her career with the widely acclaimed "Daughters of the Dust" in 1991 and has only made one movie since. Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep" made a huge splash in 1978 but he has struggled to complete a handful of features since then.

Dash's lyrical fable and Burnett's tough-minded drama are nothing alike, but they do have ...Read more

Whatever its flaws, "Promising Young Woman" really goes for it, and that makes it thrilling to watch.

The wayward tone of writer/director Emerald Fennell's even-darker-than-it-seems satire can be confounding: "Hold up, it's also a romantic comedy?" is what I wrote in my notes about halfway through. But it finally becomes clear that the movie's ...Read more

He was born in the USA and now he’s going to honor it.

New Jersey-bred rocker Bruce Springsteen, along with crooner John Legend and alternative band the Foo Fighters, were announced Friday as additional performers at the post-inauguration prime-time TV special, “Celebrating America.”

They’ll join previously announced musicians — ...Read more

True crime has paid big dividends for Netflix. From "Making a Murderer" to "The Keepers," "The Staircase" and "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness," the streaming service has been a steady provider of white-knuckle programming for viewers who can't get enough of grisly crime scene photos, dogged detective work and real-life cliffhangers ...Read more

Days after attending a rally that led to a deadly right-wing insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the LA indie musician Ariel Pink tried to defend his actions on Fox News host Tucker Carlson's show on Thursday.

"I had no choice, there's nothing else for me to do," Pink said, looking shaken and nervous. "I can't even afford my lawyer right now."

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Among the many archival materials excerpted in Sam Pollard's "MLK/FBI" is a 1964 televised interview with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., conducted by journalist Gay Pauley. With a superior smirk and galling bad faith, Pauley asks King if his code of nonviolent resistance has nonetheless produced a "crisis atmosphere," one that has ultimately ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Joanne Rogers was so much more than just Fred Rogers' adoring wife.

The two married in 1952, and she remained by his side until his death in 2003. Though her husband's fame skyrocketed thanks to the success of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," Mrs. Rogers also was able to carve out a successful niche of her own as a professional ...Read more

Nostalgia is a funny thing because the past was never simpler. But the desire to be anywhere but here and now is strong and Hollywood knows it. The enthusiasm with which the TV and film industry has been mining our childhoods is at least partially driven by marketing: A familiar title or character is always an easier sell than something brand ...Read more

Years from now, when you speak of “Locked Down” — and you won’t — be kind. The makers of this COVID-era rom-com heist picture gave it their all, shooting a hopeless script by a seasoned professional in early fall 2020 in London as the coronavirus pandemic raged on.

They were guided by director Doug Liman, who made “Mr. and Mrs. ...Read more

Kyra Sedgwick never flew halfway across the country because her kids didn’t return her calls, but she understands that empty-nest feeling.

The New York native has returned to ABC in “Call Your Mother” as Jean Raines, a devoted mom of two who uproots her life and moves from Iowa to Los Angeles to stay in their lives — literally and ...Read more

If you're going to watch Netflix's French import "Lupin," the latest tasty incarnation of author Maurice Leblanc's smooth criminal introduced in 1905, you might want to conduct a little experiment.

For five minutes, try it in English. When you set up your Netflix profile, you probably chose English for your default.

Watch and listen. The ...Read more

It takes one to know one.

Fiction fans who favor villainous characters appear to share a “Dark Triad” of characteristics with those shifty individuals.

Citing a report from the journal Poetics, the Academic Times reports that those who identify with antagonists frequently share those characters’ sense of narcissism, psychopathy and ...Read more