I first became fully aware of Paula Pell in 2014, as the co-creator and costar, with James Anderson, of "Hudson Valley Ballers," a brilliantly bizarre web series about friends who open a B&B in upstate New York. But I had seen her work on "Saturday Night Live," for which she wrote for 20 years (including a few seasons as head writer), and had ...Read more

The brilliant actor, director and producer Amy Seimetz made her directorial debut in 2012 with the hazy, sun-drenched lovers-on-the-run film "Sun Don't Shine," starring Kate Lyn Sheil and Kentucker Audley. Although it's been eight years between her debut and her follow-up film, "She Dies Tomorrow," Seimetz has been very busy in the interim. She'...Read more

The Howard in "Howard," streaming on Disney Plus starting Friday, is Howard Ashman. And anyone who had the wit and the cheek to write the lyric "I use antlers in all of my decorating!" for the muscle-bound antagonist in "Beauty and the Beast" plainly deserves to have his story be told in a documentary.

Ashman's lyrics -- and, just as crucially,...Read more

The "Umbrella Academy's" superhero troop possesses the ability to sprout octopus arms in battle, travel through time, commune with the dead and blow their enemies' minds -- literally -- with the power of suggestion.

But it's not the clan's crime-fighting skills that set it apart from television's crowded field of onscreen avengers. Netflix's ...Read more

The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of July 27:

1. Scoob! -- Warner

2. You Should Have Left -- Universal

3. Deep Blue Sea 3 -- Warner

4. Survive the Night -- Lionsgate

5. Trolls World Tour -- Universal

6. Grand Isle -- Screen Media

7. The Invisible Man -- Universal

8. Force of Nature -- Lionsgate

9. Bad Boys for Life --...Read more

Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds has addressed his controversial 2012 wedding to American actress Blake Lively, which was held at Boone Hall, a former plantation in South Carolina.

In a new interview with Fast Company, published on Tuesday, the "Detective Pikachu" star expressed the couple's remorse for the decision and explained that he and Lively...Read more

Settle in for a serenade in the top new DVD picks for the week of Aug. 11.

"The High Note": Personal assistant Maggie Sherwoode (Dakota Johnson) has a dream of becoming a professional music producer. This is a no-no for her day job, to be at superstar singer Grace Davis' (Tracee Ellis Ross) side more or less every minute of the day. But after ...Read more

Philosopher and writer George Santayana coined the aphorism "those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." Although we are living in "unprecedented" times, the phrase seems to have been rattling around the collective American consciousness this summer, as President Donald Trump tests the boundaries of democracy, dabbling in ...Read more

The new Seth Rogen vehicle, "An American Pickle," is a lot like the foodstuff for which it's named: a quick, tart, satisfying bite, and of course, kosher. The film heralds a return of sorts, or at least a nod to, classic American Jewish cinema (there's a nod to "Yentl"), the likes of which hasn't been seen, it seems, in some time.

The film is ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Long before he was lauded as the internet's new boyfriend for his guitar-playing, smooth-dancing, ab-baring role in the Netflix movie "The Kissing Booth 2," Taylor Zakhar Perez was a star swimmer at Chesterton High School in northwest Indiana.

Zakhar Perez plays Marco, who distracts classmate Elle (Joey King) from her long-distance ...Read more

Except for the biggest pop acts, like the Rolling Stones or Rihanna, and a few hot shows like "Hamilton," musicians have struggled to fill concert halls. But now the entire business of live performance is in trouble, even for the top stars, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic: theaters and performance halls have been closed since March -- and with ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Sean Hannity is the most-watched personality on cable news. But a conversation with him quickly reminds you that his roots are in radio, which he still does three hours a day. Like an old-school top 40 disc jockey, the conservative host can play the hits ("Russia Collusion Hoax," "Trump Derangement Syndrome," "The Deep State") on ...Read more

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

AUGUST

4: Dead Ringer

4: Dispatches From Elsewhere, Season 1

4: His Dark Materials: First Season

4: Last Man Standing: The Complete Eighth Season

4: NCIS: Los Angeles: The Eleventh Season

4: Swallow

4: The Good Doctor

4: The Neighborhood: ...Read more

Inside a seedy-looking motel room, a dancer sashays, twirls and vogues alone to the pulsating bass line and sultry lyrics of Jessie Ware's "What's Your Pleasure?" In the nearly five-minute video, dancer Nicolas Huchard plays a game of seduction with the camera while wearing different outfits of leather, lace, satin and fringe.

This is the COVID...Read more