Jason Statham's latest high-octane offering tops the DVD releases for the week of April 23.

"The Beekeeper": A retired operative goes after a group of phone scammers targeting lonely elderly folks with bloody results in this action thriller.

"The usually slick Statham embraces Carhartt-core as Adam, who is a literal beekeeper, delivering jars ...Read more

Perhaps you’ve already torn through the eight-episode limited series “Ripley,” now streaming on Netflix. Created by Steve Zaillian, who also wrote and directed every episode, this gorgeous and gritty black-and-white noir is a far cry from the lush 1999 film “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” adapted from the same 1955 book by Patricia ...Read more

The filmmaking team known as Radio Silence, made up of directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and producer Chad Villella, struck black (comedy) gold with their 2019 horror thriller “Ready or Not,” about a young bride, played by Samara Weaving, who has to battle her way out of a murderous game hosted by her wealthy soon-to-be in-...Read more

DETROIT — ABC News Studios is set to release a documentary about James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the Oxford High School shooter who were recently sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter after their son killed four classmates in 2021.

The documentary, which will be released this week, is titled "Sins of ...Read more

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

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16: Comeback Kids: A Middle School Basketball Story

16: Cut, Color, Murder

16: Devil's Peak

16: Double Down South

16: Exile

16: Mister Sleep

16: The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die

16: The Star City Murders

16: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan:...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "I'm so excited for this!" Chris Perfetti says as he approaches the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Our greeting is drowned out by a cacophony of nearby construction and clusters of energetic children on field trips shuffling down the pathway — in the distance, a row of yellow school buses that snake the perimeter...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Thanks to the success of “The Real World: Las Vegas” in 2002 and the debut of “Pawn Stars” in 2009, the valley has gone through a couple of reality TV booms.

For a while earlier this century, if you lived here and weren’t on a reality show, there was a pretty good chance you knew someone who was.

Few of those shows, ...Read more

INDIO, Calif. — At the 2024 Coachella Valley Music Festival, attendees were met with a wave of excitement as they entered the Empire Polo Club grounds in Indio.

However, one immediate change caught the eye of seasoned festival-goers: the Sahara Tent, a longstanding home of electronic dance music and rap acts, had shifted its location. ...Read more

Alex Garland’s “Civil War” is essentially a horror movie, one in which the horrors feel uncomfortably close to home. In this vision of America, the country is divided into two violent factions: one led by a fascist three-term president (Nick Offerman, in a small but vivid role), the other an armed rebellion against the government. Four ...Read more

ATLANTA — As he serves a 12-year prison sentence in Florida on federal bank fraud and tax evasion charges, former Atlanta multimillionaire and reality television star Todd Chrisley is pushing for a new trial, claiming the jury heard false testimony and saw evidence from an illegal warehouse raid.

The 56-year-old has asked the federal appeals ...Read more

Jill Duggar Dillard and her family are mourning a tragic loss.

“It is with heavy hearts that we announce the stillbirth of our beautiful baby girl, Isla Marie Dillard,” the couple announced on Instagram.

The “19 Kids and Counting” alum and her husband, Derick Dillard, learned their daughter had died in utero when Jill was four months ...Read more

As a new magazine profile of Jewel attests, the singer-songwriter continues to keep people guessing — these days about her rumored romance with Kevin Costner, her upcoming “immersive art experience” in Arkansas and the nasty-looking cut on her right index finger, which she displayed in two recent TikTok videos.

In one of those TIkTok ...Read more

Taylor Swift has given Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s spoof of “All Too Well” her coveted seal of approval.

The pop superstar took to X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday to endorse the latest take on her Grammy-winning song, which she aptly titled “All Too Well (Ryan and Emily’s Version).”

“All Too Well (Ryan and Emily’s Version) !!...Read more

CBS has bowed under pressure after it broke away early from the taped broadcast of "Billy Joel: The 100th – Live at Madison Square Garden," forcing local affiliates Sunday to start their late-night newscasts.

The veteran musician was wrapping up "Piano Man," one of his most beloved ballads, when the screen went blank for a few seconds around ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Take a bow, mother nature!

Thanks to some uncharacteristically wet April weather during Billy Joel’s sold-out concert with Sting at Petco Park on Saturday night, pop-music’s famed piano man has achieved an elite — if not entirely coveted — distinction. He now joins the Rolling Stones, Miles Davis and Tony Bennett on the ...Read more

Former NBA star Charles Barkley and CBS reporter Gayle King are finished with their short-lived CNN program “King Charles” after six months of shows.

“‘King Charles’ has come to the end of its limited run, as we announced when it launched last fall, and was a great addition to CNN’s lineup, with the youngest, most affluent, and most...Read more

“The Golden Bachelor” contestant Maria Trice, who left after the first week of the senior-dating series last year, now says she “dodged a bullet” in the wake of the announcement that Gerry Turner and the woman he did choose are getting divorced after just three months.

Marrying after a whirlwind courtship is like “trying to force a ...Read more

America has been shattered in "Civil War." An armed alliance between Texas and California known as the Western Forces is on the verge of recapturing a besieged capital. A team of journalists heads from New York City to Washington, D.C., in hopes of landing one last interview with the president, an illegal third-termer gone rogue.

As they make ...Read more

This time last year, the five members of the K-pop group Le Sserafim were glued to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival livestream on YouTube, watching Blackpink make history as the first Korean headliner. On Saturday afternoon, they were getting glammed up in an artist trailer all their own, hours out from making their own Coachella ...Read more

INDIO, Calif. — Gwen Stefani wanted to get this straight.

“You showed up to Coachella, Saturday night 2024,” she asked, “to see No Doubt play together on this stage for the first time in nine years?” Dressed in a shredded plaid outfit, her blond hair twisted into a pair of knots atop her head, the 54-year-old frontwoman was ...Read more