LOS ANGELES -- Warner Bros.' "Joker" maintained the top spot at the box office for a second weekend in a row, adding $55 million (a drop of just 43%) for a cumulative $192.7 million, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore. Globally, the film has already earned more than half a billion dollars with $543.9 million.

The result is ...Read more

Shepard Smith, the longtime lead anchor of Fox News, is leaving the network.

Smith has been with Fox News since its launch in 1996 and has stood out as the nonpartisan voice on the conservative channel.

Fox News President Suzanne Scott, who announced Smith's departure on Friday afternoon, said the anchor "recently asked us to step down and ...Read more

It went just as she'd planned.

Jane Fonda was arrested Friday in front of the U.S. Capitol as part of her efforts to join the fight against climate change.

"Today, the United States Capitol Police arrested 16 individuals for unlawfully demonstrating on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol," Eva Malecki, communications director for the Capitol ...Read more

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, "GHOSTEEN" (GHOSTEEN/BAD SEED)

"I'm transforming, I'm vibrating, I'm glowing, I'm flying, look at me now," Nick Cave sang six years ago on the pivotal "Jubilee Street." The six-minute track planted the seeds of the fully realized 68-minute song cycle that is "Ghosteen."

Since the feral fury and dark humor of the ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- Two decades have passed since three budding filmmakers wandered into the western Maryland woods, never to be seen again. Quite the cause for celebration, right?

It is when the three 20-somethings were the central characters in "The Blair Witch Project." The shot-on-the-cheap exercise in cinematic terror, made by two rookie ...Read more

Shortly before President Donald Trump took the stage at downtown Minneapolis' Target Center Thursday night, Prince's "Purple Rain" played -- even though his estate asked a year ago that the president stop using the late musician's music.

"President Trump played Prince's 'Purple Rain' tonight at a campaign event in Minneapolis despite confirming...Read more

Most everyone who mattered in AMC's unsurpassed drama "Breaking Bad" had been killed off by the 2013 finale -- a closing episode that still stands as one of TV's best.

There is no discernible reason the series should be followed by a film, other than placating series creator Vince Gilligan and fans who miss the world of Walter White (Bryan ...Read more

The shock of seeing Joseph Losey's newly restored, long unavailable "Mr. Klein" is not so much surprise at how compelling it is but astonishment at how it seems more relevant today than at its original 1976 release.

Moody, elegantly disturbing and impeccably made by a master director, this story of blurred identities and casual immorality in ...Read more

Not long ago, Corin Tucker, who plays guitar in a roaring rock 'n' roll band called Sleater-Kinney, went with her bandmate Carrie Brownstein to a Los Angeles poetry, music, comedy and art performance known as Weirdo Night. One act on the bill was so loud that, as Tucker later told Pitchfork, she declared: "Oh my God, we have to walk out before ...Read more

Few movie stars have been so willing to suffer for our ostensible entertainment as Will Smith. I don't mean that entirely as a compliment, but I also say it with some real if qualified admiration. Smith can suffer beautifully, even movingly, onscreen, as he did playing a destitute dad trying to care for his young son in 2006's "The Pursuit of ...Read more

The enduring appeal of "The Addams Family" is quite impressive. With only four notes and a couple of snaps, plus a classic black dress, one can instantly evoke the classic American Gothic clan, who are creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky. Since Morticia's 1938 debut on the pages of The New Yorker, in a cartoon drawn by Charles Addams, the ...Read more