TELLURIDE, Colo. — Complete with a secret screening that had everyone guessing for days, a seismic revelation (which became a bona fide viral moment) and an unusually strong lineup of world premieres and smart replays, the 53rd Telluride Film Festival turned out to be one of the strongest in years. Leaving aside the many great movies that ...Read more

DETROIT — Motown icon Stevie Wonder has announced fall tour dates, including a pair of concerts at Detroit's Fox Theatre.

The tour marks the 50th anniversary of his 18th studio album, the Grammy Award-winning chart topper "Songs in the Key of Life." The run of fall dates includes Fox Theatre shows on Dec. 8 and 9.

Tickets will go on sale at ...Read more

VENICE, Italy — When Skyler Gisondo turns up in “Primetime” as “Decoy Dan” Plum, an aspiring 23-year-old actor cast to play teenage bait for an unsuspecting pedophile, the camera can’t take its eyes off him.

The second trap set in director Lance Oppenheim’s lurid sweeps-ploitation drama about “To Catch a Predator” follows ...Read more

"Dang!," an amiably chaotic new adult animated comedy which premiered Tuesday on Netflix, tells the story of the Dangs, three Chinese American siblings living in New York City. Eunice (Poppy Liu, "Hacks") and older brother Andrew (Andrew Law) share a walk-up apartment in Chinatown; at 26, she's still determinedly the baby, with little practical ...Read more

Even had you never read Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities," or even known of its existence, the odds are good that you have somewhere encountered its much quoted opening and closing lines: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" and (spoiler) "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — If you ask George Takei whether he ever thought he’d still be talking about “ Star Trek” 60 years after its debut, he will respond with a smile and a shrug.

“I’m not a visionary,” the actor and activist said during an interview on a scorching July afternoon. “Otherwise, I’d be able to tell you what’s going to ...Read more

When remembering “Practical Magic,” Griffin Dunne’s 1998 silly-spooky witchy sister movie, the image immediately conjured has to be “midnight margaritas.” The scene of Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest — two generations of Owens sisters — dancing around a kitchen to Harry Nilsson’s “Coconut” ...Read more

TELLURIDE, Colo. — For four days every Labor Day weekend, the Telluride Film Festival turns this tiny mountain town into something of a refuge from the outside world. Tucked into a box canyon and far from the usual machinery of Hollywood, moviegoers spend their days seeing films they may have known little about before arriving and talking ...Read more

Julia Garner has insisted her scrapped Madonna biopic "has to get made".

The 32-year-old actress was previously cast as the Queen of Pop in Universal Pictures' planned feature film about her iconic career, but the movie ended up being put on hold back in 2023.

However, Julia has hinted the project isn't quite dead yet, as she told ELLE ...Read more

Sherri Shepherd is the first woman ever to be cast as the Genie in Disney's Aladdin.

The 58-year-old talk show host is heading to Broadway in the iconic role popularised by Robin Williams in the studio's 1992 animated classic, and she'll be making theatre history in New York City this October.

Disney's production, which has been running for 11...Read more

Carly Rae Jepsen has found "the sweet spot" between success and getting to "live a life".

The 40-year-old pop star, who became a household name when she released Call Me Maybe in 2011, is glad to be reached a point where she has "an audience" for her music while still retaining a private life.

She told The Hollywood Reporter: "Where I've ...Read more

A historical drama from Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa tops the DVD releases for the week of Sept. 15.

"Two Prosecutors": A recent law school graduate (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) sees his idealism erode as he tries repeatedly to interview a prisoner amid the USSR's Great Purge of the late 1930s.

"Methodical and dreary, the film’s key image is...Read more

TELLURIDE, Colo. — The Telluride Film Festival has always enjoyed keeping a secret. Tucked away in the Colorado mountains with nary a red carpet or paparazzo in sight, the low-key film festival doesn't announce its lineup until the day before opening and surprise additions have long been a fixture of the event.

But even by Telluride standards...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the months leading up to summer, Paul Gunsky installed new reclining seats and immersive sound systems at his Bay Area CineLux Theatres chain in hopes that moviegoers would return in droves.

And they did. Young people flocked to his showings of "Obsession" as the Gen Z horror film gained momentum throughout the summer, while ...Read more

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Do you believe in ghosts?

Andrew Scott considers the question and looks at me with a mischievous grin, retreating to a corner of the restaurant booth where we're catching up a few hours before his new movie, "Elsinore," the most personal film he has ever made, premieres at the Telluride Film Festival.

Scott turns over the ...Read more

Michael Lomonaco can account for every minute of the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 — including the small decision that saved his life.

Lomonaco, the executive chef who ran Windows on the World on the 106th and 107th floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, was on his way up to his office when he stopped at an optometrist shop on the ...Read more

Boy George has labelled Paloma Faith a "soggy tuna sandwich" after wading into the row surrounding Macklemore's "Free Palestine" plea.

Macklemore hit headlines when he took to the stage to open Ed Sheeran's Loop tour at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium on Friday (04.09.26) and told the crowd: "One of the reasons why I wanted to come on this tour ...Read more

Demi Lovato had an unexpected "beautiful" reunion on the set of Camp Rock 3.

The 34-year-old singer reprised her role as Mitchie Torres in the Disney+ revival of the beloved franchise, and a meeting with new co-star Malachi Barton led to an emotional moment during filming.

Malachi told Entertainment Weekly how his mother, former American Idol ...Read more

Garret Dillahunt was "nervous" about stripping off for Lanterns in his 60s.

The 61-year-old actor admitted while he has appeared nude in "a few things early on" in his career, but he didn't expect to be taking his clothes off as his character William Macon asks Aaron Pierre's John Stewart to draw a naked portrait.

He told PEOPLE magazine: "Of ...Read more

If there’s one word overused in the English language, it’s “icon.” It seems that everything and everybody is an icon, diluting the reference by its casual use. But there is one person that deserves that moniker, and that’s Dolly Parton — the icon we lost last month.

And unlike anybody else, she WAS an icon. She was always referred ...Read more