Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. has pleaded not guilty to four misdemeanor counts related to two allegations of sexual misconduct in New York.

The "Jerry Maguire" star, 51, already faced a charge of forcible touching related to an incident at a Manhattan bar over the summer. But a new charge laid out in the indictment Tuesday stems from an ...Read more

The Black Keys had become a burden.

Blues-rock duo Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have known each other since elementary school in Akron, Ohio.

By the time of "Turn Blue" in 2014, the guitar band had been grinding for eight albums. Catching fire at the start of this decade with catchy hits like "Tighten Up," "Lonely Boy," and "Gold on the ...Read more

It seems that Angelina Jolie's current pet cause is rehabilitating the image of notorious "Sleeping Beauty" villain and evil fairy Maleficent. The 2014 live-action stand-alone film positioned the curse-bearing mistress of evil as a misunderstood and abused guardian of the natural world and all the magic it contains. There's certainly something ...Read more

In Taika Waititi's new film, "Jojo Rabbit," billed as an "anti-hate satire," the Maori-Jewish New Zealand filmmaker himself plays Adolf Hitler. But that seems to both the beginning and the end of the joke. This Hitler is an imaginary friend to little Hitler Youth member Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis), and Waititi's silly, irreverent performance ...Read more

"Inside the Actors Studio," a show in which famous actors talk about their craft, returned to television Sunday on a new network, Ovation, and with rotating hosts in place of James Lipton, who created the show and captained its previous 22 seasons into his 90s.

Lipton, whose last "Actors Studio" ran on Bravo in January 2018, is a hard act to ...Read more

A battle for survival in the jungle and some super-sleuthing are featured in top DVD and Blu-ray releases for Oct. 22.

"The Lion King"; 3 stars: Most of what director Jon Favreau learned making "The Jungle Book" was used to make the live-action version of "The Lion King" based on the Oscar-winning 1994 Disney animated film. This "Lion King" ...Read more

The family of blue heeler dogs in Disney Junior's series "Bluey" may be the most human-acting animated mom, dad and children on television. Serious material on the show aimed at helping preschoolers is based on real-life situations and presented in a light and often funny manner. But there will never be a time when puppy Bluey and her little ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Regina King has played strong characters throughout her career, including a role as a police officer in "Southland." Her role on the new HBO series "Watchmen," which debuts Sunday, has her again portraying a member of law enforcement, but in this case she's Angela Abar, the lead detective in the Tulsa Police Force who wears a mask...Read more

Not even an animated movie about a cuddly yeti could avoid becoming a flash-point in an international dispute involving China.

Vietnam has reportedly pulled the DreamWorks Animation cartoon "Abominable" from theaters because of the movie's depiction of a map of China that includes the nation's "nine-dash line," which unilaterally lays claim to ...Read more

NBC is launching a counterattack against investigative journalist Ronan Farrow's upcoming book "Catch and Kill," which accuses the network's news division of a coordinated effort to shut down his reporting on disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in order to protect fired "Today" co-anchor Matt Lauer.

"Now that we've read Farrow's book, it's ...Read more

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

OCTOBER

15: Crawl

15: Stuber

15: The Art of Self-Defense

15: Three From Hell

15: Already Gone

15: Can You Keep A Secret?

15: Night Hunter

15: Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans

22: The Lion King

22: Angel of Mine

22: Bloodline

22: Satanic ...Read more

Vince Gill

"Okie"

(MCA Nashville 1/2)

As a pillar of the Nashville establishment, and with his well-deserved place in the country pantheon assured, Vince Gill can pretty much do what he wants.

With "Okie," the 62-year-old singer and guitar virtuoso uses that artistic freedom to occasionally go where mainstream country rarely does. "Forever ...Read more

Just a few years after meeting on the internet, British trio Kero Kero Bonito have become one of the most successful indie-pop bands in the U.K. Its 2016 breakthrough, "Bonito Generation," offered cheerful, J-pop-inspired minimalism. Its follow up, "Time 'n' Place," took a sharp turn into anxious guitar rock.

The new EP, "Civilisation 1," ...Read more