The title "Only the Brave" sounds like Hollywood fraudulence. Certainly there are moments in director Joseph Kosinksi's film, an adaptation of Sean Flynn's vivid 2013 GQ article about the fatal Arizona wildfires and the elite Granite Mountain firefighters who took them on, when the characters don't get their due.

Early in the picture the leader...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The fiery editorials of Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. chief political analyst Boris Epshteyn will be beamed into seven in 10 American living rooms if the company is allowed to complete a merger that would transform it into a nationwide conservative TV juggernaut.

But Sinclair's proposed $3.9 billion purchase of Tribune Media Co. ...Read more

AMERICAN MADE. 3 stars. Tom Cruise stars in this fun but heavily fictionalized portrait of Barry Seal, a drug smuggler who found himself at the intersection of drug cartels and CIA adventurism in Central and South America in the 1970s and '80s. Directed by Doug Liman. 1 hr. 55 R (violence) -- Gary Thompson

ATOMIC BLONDE. 2.5 stars. Charlize ...Read more

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: There was a Jay Mohr series set in the film industry. What was its name? And was the studio head on that show based on Harvey Weinstein?

A: At first, I thought you might be asking if Weinstein inspired Peter Dragon, the movie producer played by Jay Mohr on "Action," a dark comedy that aired on Fox in...Read more

"Geostorm" finds ways to draw attention away from an interesting use of weather as a weapon by using a cold front of political jabber.

The problems in "Geostorm" were caused by director Dean Devlin and co-writer Paul Guyot as they have taken a passable action film and buried it under a tsunami of political muck. Politics can work – even in an...Read more

Mister Alfredson, you could have saved it. We gave you all the tools -- a star-studded cast, a blockbuster best-selling Scandinavian murder novel by Jo Nesbø, and three time Oscar winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker. So why is "The Snowman" such a jumbled nonsensical mess?

Director Tomas Alfredson has copped to the fact that scheduling issues ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- For the Weinsteins, it had always been Bob and Harvey against the world.

In 1979, the twenty-something rock promoters brought their unpolished demeanor, fast-talking style, and rough negotiating tactics to the movie business, naming their new film production company after their parents, Miriam and Max.

Together, they built a ...Read more

Technically speaking, she's now entitled to bragging rights as the world's first officially crowned "genius" banjo player.

The idea elicits a chuckle from Rhiannon Giddens. To be honest, she says, she isn't a fan of the "genius grant" nickname that's been widely used to describe the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship reward she has just collected ...Read more

The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of Oct. 9:

1. The Mummy (2017) -- Universal

2. Baby Driver -- Sony

3. Wonder Woman -- Warner

4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales -- Disney

5. Transformers: The Last Knight -- Paramount

6. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie -- Fox

7. 47 Meters Down -- Lionsgate

8. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Skylar Astin sees his role on the EPIX original series "Graves" as a little bit like getting paid to go to school. And his teachers are really good at what they do.

Astin plays Isaiah Miller, the overly eager assistant to Richard Graves (Nick Nolte). Miller finally gets to work for the man he has admired for so many years at the ...Read more

CHICAGO – There's something eternally youthful about pianist Herbie Hancock, who has spent his long career doing what enterprising young artists love to do: search for new ideas in sound.

Jazz, pop, fusion, techno, funk, world music -- everything Hancock hears eventually makes its way into his art in one form or another, to the exasperation ...Read more

LOS ANGELES – Standing on the 12th floor of the Capitol Records tower in Hollywood, Beck gazed through a south-facing window and pointed toward a neighborhood straddling nearby Sunset Boulevard.

"We lived over there when I was a kid, and it was all bungalow houses for six or seven blocks in every direction," the singer said. Today the family ...Read more

The LeBron James-produced TV series "Survivor's Remorse," about a young NBA star and the loving-if-exasperatingly opinionated family he surrounds himself with, just wrapped its series finale on Starz, closing out four seasons of some of the best topical comedy on television.

The show wouldn't work half as well without Erica Ash as Mary Charles ...Read more

If there's a rap against St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, it's that she can be an arty, icy singer who keeps listeners at arm's length. Her inventive songs prompt distant admiration but not necessarily deep connection. But she drops some of the emotional armor on her fifth studio album, "Masseduction"(Loma Vista), which comes off as not only one of...Read more

He arrived that autumn night like a tribal leader in a strange, opulent outpost.

The crowd, many of them famous, whispered, nodded. Jane Fonda swept past the bar, Idris Elba mingled near Taylor Swift, and Cuba Gooding Jr. talked hockey in the corner. But waiters stiffened their glides and the air was suddenly charged when Harvey Weinstein, his ...Read more