The name "Mary Shelley" conjures up images of a lumbering, disfigured, greenish-skinned monster of a man. That monster, now a cultural icon of horror films for over a century, and his mad scientist creator, Dr. Frankenstein, was dreamed up by the teenage Mary Shelley in her 1818 horror/fantasy novel, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus."

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Late Saturday night at Electric Daisy Carnival, Omar Marruto leaned against the side of a concrete pillar on the track of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. All around him, tens of thousands of young EDM fans, wearing illuminated boots, beard glitter and X's of neon nipple tape bounded past him on the fest's man drag, Electric Avenue.

As he rested, ...Read more

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

MAY

22: Game Night

22: Red Sparrow

22: The 15:17 to Paris

22: Early Man

22: A Fantastic Woman

22: Wonderstruck

22: The Party

22: Call the Midwife: Season Seven

22: I Kill Giants

22: Masterpiece: Little Women DVD

29: Annihilation

29: I'm ...Read more

Warning: This story contains major plot spoilers about "Deadpool 2."

From the beginning, the creative team behind the "Deadpool" franchise has stuck to one simple rule that guides every decision they make: "We always say, 'If you can't do it in another superhero movie, you'd best be doing it in a Deadpool movie," said screenwriter Paul Wernick....Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Ron Howard says his first thought when he took over as director of "Solo: A Star Wars Story" was the same as when it was announced he would be making a documentary on the Beatles. Both projects meant taking on the biggest icons in pop culture history.

"I could tell from the moment it was announced, 'Ron, don't (expletive) this up...Read more

PASADENA, Calif. -- As another school year draws to a close, it has to cross Taylor Swift's mind that, on the road to being one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, she sacrificed the formal education that most of her peers have experienced.

When you become a professional songwriter at 14, sign a recording contract at 15 and release your ...Read more

PASADENA, Calif. -- You'd never guess by watching actor Carl Lumbly in his myriad incarnations on screen, stage and television that he's inordinately shy.

Soft-spoken and pensive, Lumbly says, "I was raised in a wonderful home with three sisters. And my father was very dominant. So I think a lot of air was taken up, and I learned to keep my own...Read more

The royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was grand in many ways, but perhaps the most striking aspect were the myriad collisions of American and British culture.

The wedding was an unprecedented mix of royal pomp, British tradition, black-American culture and Hollywood celebrity. Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...Read more

There are only a few new titles being released this week, but among the picks are a film that will make you think and a cable series that will make you laugh.

"Annihilation"; 3 stars: Some movies work better once they are available on DVD, and this is one of them. Director/writer Alex Garland's adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's novel forces the ...Read more

CANNES, France -- The soiree had all the trappings of an ultra-luxe affair: Guests dressed in tuxedos and evening gowns, wandered the grounds of one of the most expensive hotels in the world, the du Cap-Eden-Roc. Overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, partygoers sipped champagne until 50 Cent -- who had been flown in to perform a 20-minute set -- ...Read more

Playboi Carti

"Die Lit"

(AWGE/Interscope )

Atlanta's Playboi Carti would not be the first artist to be looked upon as enigmatic, especially as -- up until the present -- he's released none of his own solo material to show for his long rep as the king of the mumble rappers. Features? He's had a slew of them since 2014, with repetitive, ...Read more