Cinematic memoir can be a complex creative endeavor. Film is a collaborative medium, and memoir requires a certain acknowledgement of the author’s creation. Without that self-reflection, memoir can slip into murky, confusing territory. This space is where the new film “Unsung Hero” exists, which is billed as “A For King + Country Film.�...Read more

'CHALLENGERS'

Rated R for language throughout, some sexual content and graphic nudity.

What it’s about: A love triangle set in the world of professional tennis.

The kid attractor factor: This is an adult drama, not much appeal for kids.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Relationships are complex, messy and require compromise.

Violence: Just ...Read more

Amber Heard offered a rare glimpse into her post-Hollywood life this week, nearly two years after she and ex-husband Johnny Depp finished airing their dirty laundry in the form of a weekslong defamation trial.

The “Aquaman” star, who celebrated her 38th birthday on Monday, shared a snap of herself grinning and ringing in the occasion with a...Read more

In the sixth episode of "Shōgun," Lord Toranaga asks Mariko about her childhood.

The warlord (portrayed by Hiroyuki Sanada) is curious to hear what his vassal (Anna Sawai) thinks turned her childhood friend Ochiba-no-kata (Fumi Nikaido), into his fierce adversary. The mother of the young heir Yaechiyo wants to see Toranaga dead.

After ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Willie Nelson was a young whippersnapper of 28 when he wrote "Funny How Time Slips Away" in 1961. He was 82 when he co-wrote and recorded "Still Not Dead" in 2017. On May 28, he will release "The Border," his ninth album since 2020.

So, when Nelson sang the line "Don't bury me, I've got a show to play/ And I woke up still not dead...Read more

Q. It was cool to learn what TEAC stands for. Thanks, I never knew that! I saw that the TEAC PD-301-X CD Player/FM Tuner just has FM radio? No AM radio on the unit?

—J.L., Minneapolis

A. That is correct, no AM radio, only FM. Listening to AM seems to have fallen from consideration in the hi-fi world, and the PD-301-X is meant as a serious ...Read more

By all accounts, Jon Bon Jovi has led a charmed life with supportive parents, early success and a fantastic head of hair. That's an enviable history, but it makes for a fairly tedious documentary.

Despite the lack of drama, "Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story," which starts streaming Friday on Hulu, stretches well beyond the four-hour ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — “Designing Women” alum Delta Burke says her “ugly” experience on the hit CBS sitcom drove her away from Los Angeles, and her long-time struggle with her weight led her to use crystal meth to keep off the pounds.

Known for playing the sassy former beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker on the 1980s comedy, Burke opened up for ...Read more

If fears about “the bomb” permeated life in the mid-20th century, the video game “Fallout” takes that premise to its worst conclusion. In a post-nuclear wasteland, some survivors have been recreating their 1950s-era idyll underground in elaborate bomb shelters called vaults. Those less lucky have been eking out a life on the surface, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the late 1950s, Charles "Chuck" Dederich started a drug rehabilitation program out of a storefront in Santa Monica. A recovering alcoholic who'd gotten sober through Alcoholics Anonymous, Dederich offered free treatment to self-described "dope fiends" desperate to kick their deadly habit and go cold turkey.

Over the next ...Read more

NEW YORK — Just before the end of playwright David Adjmi’s masterful “Stereophonic,” a three-hour dissection of ego, insecurity and the messy, messed-up gorgeousness of the creative process, I decided I’d had enough of these beautiful people in the recording studio with their complaints, their cocaine, their obsessive-compulsive ...Read more

NEW YORK — Back in the 1980s, Huey Lewis and the News were sometimes compared to the Cars and even Elvis Costello, but their string of catchy hit singles also had the distinctive everyman air of flowing out of a bunch of regular dudes, Joe six-packs who could just as easily have been headlining at your local tavern and carrying out their own ...Read more

Megan Thee Stallion is being sued by a personal cameraman who alleges the “Hot Girl Summer” singer, her management company and several other related entities engaged in hostile work environment harassment and various labor-law violations.

The lawsuit alleges that MTS — whose legal name is Megan Pete — had sex with a woman riding in an ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hip-hop star Tyler, the Creator, alt-rock act the Killers, country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson and pop star Post Malone sit atop the bill for the 2024 Outside Lands festival.

Malone, who headlined Outside Lands in 2022, will be performing a country music set at this year’s event.

Other big-name acts in the lineup ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ohana Festival curator and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder announced the lineup for the eighth annual Ohana Festival, which is scheduled to return to Doheny State Beach in Dana Point for a three-day weekend Sept. 27-29.

Headlining the first and third night in celebration of its newest album, “Dark Matter,” Pearl Jam is ...Read more

The rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who once claimed to be “the Greatest artist that God ever created,” wants to have a three-way tryst with one of the most admired women in the world: Michelle Obama.

The provocateur, legally known as Ye, opened up about his polyamorous desires involving his always scantily clad wife Bianca Censori and...Read more

Several crew members were recently injured in a crash on the Georgia set of an Amazon MGM Studios film starring Eddie Murphy, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

The studio confirmed to the AP that the accident happened Saturday while shooting a sequence that "did not go as planned." Two of the injured crew members were hospitalized ...Read more

The way we digest new music needs to be fixed.

Within less than 24 hours of Taylor Swift’s release of "The Tortured Poets Department" and her surprise anthology, the internet was flooded with an inescapable number of reviews. In the New York Times, Lindsay Zoladz said Swift’s 11th LP is “sprawling and often self-indulgent” and “full ...Read more

“It hurts him.”

That’s what Jelly Roll’s wife, Bunnie XO, says in a promo clip for this week’s episode of “Dumb Blonde.” In text overlaid on the clip, she promised: “This week I go off on the podcast.. def going to ruffle some feathers & I didn’t stutter.”

She’s about to “go off” about bullying, apparently.

“My ...Read more

It wasn't a cellphone that did Luke Bryan in, it was a slick spot on stage, the country star explained.

The "Play it Again" and "That's My Kind of Night" singer cleared the record about his weekend wipeout onstage during his Coast City Country show at B.C. Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, which he initially chalked up to slipping on a fan'...Read more