NEW YORK — Actor Alec Baldwin smacked away a phone belonging to an anti-Israeli protester who cornered him at a Manhattan coffee shop demanding he say “Free Palestine,” a recently surfaced video of the exchange shows.

Unshaven and talking on his cellphone, Baldwin, 66, is minding his own business at the coffee shop when the protester ...Read more

Is there anyone in cinema right now who has a gaze as coolly assured as Zendaya’s? In Luca Guadagnino’s tennis love triangle “Challengers,” she owns the movie and the camera, eyeing it as if daring it to reveal her thoughts. As Tashi Duncan, a tennis megastar-turned-coach after an injury, she’s utterly believable as a young woman ...Read more

Italian director Luca Guadagnino has become an art house darling over the past 15 years, making films about desire, longing, relationships and identity that have resonated with audiences and catapulted his actors to superstardom. His latest film, “Challengers” is his biggest yet, starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor in a steamy ...Read more

By the time Luca Guadagnino’s erotically charged tennis film “Challengers” reaches its breathless, sweaty, pulse-pounding and deeply satisfying climax, you’ll be reaching for a cigarette, so to speak. Rarely is a film so sensorially captivating, every element of cinema, including script, cinematography, editing, score and performance ...Read more

Sydney Sweeney isn't letting critics ruin a vacation filled with "good times and tan lines."

That's how the "Madame Web" and "Immaculate" actor captioned a post on Sunday that could be construed as a subtle clapback to producer Carol Baum's disparaging comments about her talent and looks earlier this month.

The "Euphoria" actor posted a series...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The massive LED video screen that forms the interior surface of Sphere can be used to transport audiences to the tops of mountains, to outer space, to beneath the feet of an elephant standing as tall as a 20-story building.

On Friday night, Phish turned the place into a car wash.

Playing the second date in a sold-out four-night ...Read more

In the remote Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, students are allowed 10 excused absences a year for subsistence activities, primarily hunting. “If you don’t do subsistence activities, you die,” says the school principal in the documentary “One with the Whale,” airing this week on public television as ...Read more

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

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23: The Beekeeper

23: Drive-Away Dolls

23: American Star

23: Harley Quinn: The Complete Fourth Season

23: Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 2

23: Monolith

23: I Am Cuba

30: Mean Girls (2024)

30: Mean Girls (2004)

30: Madame...Read more

Two years ago, Swifties were Googling Joni Mitchell due to “whispers” of Taylor Swift portraying the folk legend in a biopic.

Mitchell responded with “If she’s going to sing and play me, good luck.” But that’s neither here nor there.

The association inspired many among her fan base to dig into one of the greatest singer-songwriters...Read more

Celine Dion has objectives as she battles Stiff Person Syndrome.

“I want to be the best I can be, ” Dion says in an interview in the new edition of Vogue France. “My goal is to see the Eiffel Tower again!”

A return to live performance, someday, is also motivating the superstar resident of Lake Las Vegas. But while Dion is steadfast in ...Read more

By any reasonable measure, David Fincher had made it by 1990. He was directing rapturous music videos for Madonna ("Express Yourself," "Vogue") and doing lucrative ads for top brands worldwide. The production company he co-founded, Propaganda Films, had cornered the MTV market, helping launch the careers of such future notables as Spike Jonze ...Read more

An updated take on a beloved high school comedy tops the DVD releases for the week of April 23.

"Mean Girls": An adaptation of the musical based on the 2004 film, starring Angourie Rice as Cady Heron and Reneé Rapp as Regina George.

"There’s a lot of fun onscreen in this 'Mean Girls' ... but it also feels like a condensed skim of the story ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The release of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department introduced a new crowd to vintage typewriters last week. But a lack of understanding around how the machines were first built is causing a flurry of miscalculated fan theories.

In promotional videos for Swift’s new album, she’s seen using an old typewriter. When ...Read more

Nicki Minaj proved to not be here for the nonsense after a fan threw an object at her during a concert — she threw it right back.

The 12-time Grammy nominated rapper was captured on video intercepting a pink bracelet and then hurling it into the audience during the Detroit stop of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour.

The incident happened while she...Read more

Kid Cudi broke his foot Sunday after jumping from a stage at the Coachella festival in Indio, California, ending his set early.

The 40-year-old rapper, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, jumped down while performing “Memories” in the Sahara tent, landed awkwardly and rolled over, according to fan footage.

Security guards helped him to his ...Read more

Morgan Wallen has broken his silence about his April 8 arrest on suspicion of throwing a chair from the top of a six-story Nashville bar.

The “One Thing at a Time” and “Whiskey Glasses” singer said in a Friday tweet that he’s “not proud” of his behavior and that he accepts responsibility for his part in the incident that played ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Like many of its victims of the past week, “CSI: Vegas” has been cut down in its prime.

The reboot of the series that put Las Vegas on the television map won’t live to see a Season 4. According to multiple news outlets, it’s been canceled by CBS to make room for new dramas, including “NCIS: Origins,” a new take on “...Read more

After a 30-second Super Bowl teaser sent Marvel fans into a frenzy, the full trailer for “Deadpool and Wolverine” dropped Monday morning, featuring all the hallmarks of a “Deadpool” movie: extravagant fight scenes, fourth-wall-breaking and plenty of F-bombs.

In the trailer, Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool is enlisted by the Time Variance ...Read more