"The Little Mermaid" is swimming against a massive cinematic tide. This live-action romance/drama is a sweet film about love and lore that would have done a lot better in the fall or spring when the box office battles aren't so brutal. Arguments can be made for alternative summer movie options, but in this case the lack of a major star in either...Read more

You know Sheila the She-Wolf from "Glow" on Netflix? "Alpha" would be her favorite movie. She'd watch it every day on a VHS tape, memorizing each line of Cro-Magnon dialogue, fashioning her costumes in tribute to the fur-trimmed Hot Topic looks sported by the characters, adopting a Czech wolf dog like the one in the movie. It's sweet, really, to...Read more

DON'T MISS: "The Last Sharknado: It's About Time" -- The nutty, low-budget film franchise that dared to imagine the meteorological mayhem that occurs when man-eating sea creatures rain down from the sky is calling it quits. The sixth and final installment picks up right after the conclusion of "Sharknado 5: Global Swarming," when Fin (Ian ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The initial reaction by Heather Graham to the concept of the series "Bliss" was anything but blissful. She thought the idea of a man trying to juggle two families sounded so sexist she got mad that someone -- David Cross of "Arrested Development" fame -- was going to make such a program.

"Then when I started reading the script, I...Read more

Whatever their manifold differences may be, ultra-orthodox Muslims and ultra-orthodox Jews do share a zealous determination to keep women away from motorized vehicles.

While Saudi Arabia until quite recently kept women from driving at all, a similar dynamic played out in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, as revealed in the intimate...Read more

Director Jon M. Chu brings the vibrant world of "Crazy Rich Asians" to life with all the style and glamour of a big-budget Hollywood movie -- but early on in the project he had a big choice to make, joining author Kevin Kwan in turning down a massive Netflix payday to ensure the groundbreaking project would make its impact on the big screen.

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Lindsey Buckingham has gone solo before and he's doing it again, hitting the road this fall with his own U.S. tour and a career-spanning compilation.

The Fleetwood Mac alum launches the expansive tour Oct. 7 in Portland, Ore., and continues through early December, ending in Pennsylvania.

The tour is in support of the forthcoming "Solo ...Read more

As celebrity support streams in from all corners of the globe, new reports say that Aretha Franklin is under hospice care.

"Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, is in hospice care at her home tonight," CNN's Don Lemon reported on Monday night, citing a source close to the 76-year-old singer.

Monday's news that Franklin is near death sparked an ...Read more

"Crazy Rich Asians" has all the trappings of a classic Hollywood rom-com. Beautiful people in love. Stunning locations. Disapproving relatives.

But as the first English-language contemporary Hollywood movie with a nearly all-Asian cast since "The Joy Luck Club" was released 25 years ago, this film is carrying more weight than the typical ...Read more

She had traveled to Guernsey on a whim, and now she was stuck there.

Mary Ann Shaffer had known nothing about the Channel Island before she visited in 1980 -- just that the enclave off the northwest coast of France looked like a relaxing place to spend a weekend. Now a thick fog had settled over the island, shutting down the airport. Stranded ...Read more