When a comic giant departs this world for bookings unknown, the usual thing to say or write is: Where do you start?

With Carl Reiner, it's different. Across 98 years, his life and career in comedy generated such a stunning amount of high-grade laughs -- high, medium and low -- with him, it's more like: Where do you finish?

Born in the Bronx, ...Read more

Smart developers don't let good ideas go to waste. Instead of mothballing technology, they continue to refine it and that's the case with Harmonix's new project "Fuser."

The backbone of the music-mixing games comes from "Dropmix," a card-based title that Harmonix made in conjunction with Hasbro. It never achieved the same success as its ...Read more

He's the most famous athlete of his generation, one of the most famous public figures ever. He appeared in six NBA Finals, won all six, and was the MVP each time. So why would Michael Jordan take part in a 10-episode docuseries when its director said up front that it would go to some very uncomfortable places?

"I said, 'Why do you want to do ...Read more

With 2020 such a nightmare (and we're still in the first act), it's sometimes a challenge to wrap our brains around the world's many pre-existing crises.

David France's daring new documentary "Welcome to Chechnya" goes undercover to detail one such horrific situation, the extrajudicial persecution of gays and lesbians in the Chechen Republic. ...Read more

According to the documentary "Unsettled," it is illegal in 70 countries to be gay, lesbian or transgender. In several of these nations, the penalty is death.

For many of these LGBTQ people facing daily threats and abuse, the U.S. has until recently seemed like the promised land, a place where they can live and love freely. Achieving refugee ...Read more

The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of June 22:

1. The Hunt -- Universal

2. The Invisible Man -- Universal

3. Bloodshot -- Sony

4. Bad Boys for Life -- Sony

5. Sonic the Hedgehog -- Paramount

6. The Call of The Wild -- Fox

7. Impractical Jokers: The Movie -- Warner

8. Jumanji: The Next Level -- Sony

9. Burden (2020) -- ...Read more

In Jim Carrey's new semi-autobiographical novel, "Memoirs and Misinformation," there are flying saucers and a fire-bombing on Rodeo Drive, apocalyptic fires devouring Malibu and a mega-budget Hungry Hungry Hippos movie written by Kenneth Lonergan. One moment, "Carrey" dreams of strangling his late mother; the next, he pines for Renee Zellweger (...Read more

Director Thomas Kail's filmed version of the blockbuster musical "Hamilton," available Friday on the Disney+ streaming service, surely is the greatest translation, democratization and preservation of any Broadway show, ever. Experiencing this event, at relatively low cost and at a time when fans of American musicals are being forced to wait ...Read more

Neil Young

"Homegrown"

(Reprise 1/2)

This may be the best release yet from Neil Young's extensive archives. "Homegrown" was supposed to come out in 1975, after "On the Beach," but Young shelved it and went deeper into the ditches with "Tonight's the Night."

Young calls "Homegrown" "the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes a Time," and ...Read more

Kanye West has been watching what's going on in the world, and he has some characteristically complicated thoughts.

Early Tuesday the superstar musician released a new song, "Wash Us in the Blood," accompanied by a music video that features images of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor as well as video from the nationwide protests their deaths ...Read more

"Hillary," Hulu's four-part documentary about Hillary Clinton, came out of 2,000 hours of footage shot during her 2016 presidential campaign, 35 hours of fresh interviews with the subject herself and a bevy of archival material that filmmaker Nanette Burstein found while researching the project.

When Burstein had a version of the movie that was...Read more

"Trolls World Tour": Its theatrical release an early victim of the coronavirus pandemic, Universal offered "Trolls World Tour" as a digital rental in April, which the studio said broke records as its biggest debut for an original digital release. The colorful animated family flick reunites the main characters from the 2016's "Trolls," as Queen ...Read more