MINNEAPOLIS — This is the season for Oscar-bait films designed to make you stroke your chin until your hand goes numb.

Bloomington natives Pat Casey and Josh Miller don’t make those kinds of movies. But don’t feel bad for them. Their scripts for 2020′s “Sonic the Hedgehog” and its 2022 sequel were big reasons the franchise has ...Read more

ATLANTA — This was a year of transition for entertainment in metro Atlanta, with cutbacks, shutdowns and slowdowns the unfortunate norm. Metro Atlanta lost radio host Wanda Smith, drag legend Charlie Brown and Oscar-winning actor Lou Gossett Jr. And the city tried and failed to nab the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.

But there was good ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hudson Meek, an actor who appeared in "Baby Driver" and voiced Bada in the preschool-age series "Badanamu Stories," has died after falling from a moving car. He was 16.

Meek fell "to the roadway from a motor vehicle in motion" in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, on the night of Dec. 19, the Jefferson County coroner's office said ...Read more

Britney Spears and her younger son Jayden Federline reunited for Christmas for the first time after a yearslong estrangement.

The “…Baby One More Time” singer, 43, posted a video of herself and Federline on her Instagram late Wednesday.

“Best Christmas of my life !!! I haven’t seen my boys in 2 years !!! Tears of joy and literally in...Read more

Beyoncé brought her album "Cowboy Carter" to life for the first time in a halftime performance at an NFL game on Christmas Day in her hometown of Houston.

The show, which came midway through the Baltimore Ravens' rout of the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium, was designed to entice viewers to Netflix as the streaming goliath inaugurated a new pact...Read more

You may ask yourself, "Did the world need a 'Squid Game 2?'" Hwang Dong-hyuk, who wrote and directed 2021's "Squid Game," didn't think so originally, having devised the Korean Netflix series as a single-season stand-alone. But success is a great corporate intoxicant, and so Hwang has found something new to do with Lee Jung-jae's Seong Gi-hun (...Read more

DETROIT — When Claressa Shields first talked to Ryan Destiny, she immediately sized her up.

Shields, the Flint boxer known as "T-Rex" and boxing's GWOAT — that's short for Greatest Woman of All Time — wanted to know if Destiny, who hails from Detroit, was tough enough to play her in the big-screen story of her life.

"I'm like, 'Hey, you'...Read more

Teenage actor Hudson Meek, known for his role in the Oscar-nominated heist film “Baby Driver,” has died after falling from a moving vehicle in Alabama.

The 16-year-old fell at around 10:45 p.m. local time on Dec. 19 in Vestavia Hills, about 7 miles south of Birmingham, local NBC affiliate WVTM reports.

Hudson sustained blunt force trauma ...Read more

The composer David Raksin once described his film music as melodically tricky enough that ideally, he joked, the listener should skip the first hearing and try the second.

The same applies, for me at least, to “Babygirl.” The first time I saw “Babygirl” I couldn’t really get the hang or the pitch of it. Richly complex in terms of tone...Read more

NEW YORK — This last year was busy on Broadway, with new musicals and several impressive plays featuring ensemble casts. As always, the best shows asked the fundamental questions of human existence and focused on how human relationships can both destroy our certainty and save our souls. And the shows listed below also managed to be great ...Read more

[This story contains spoilers about the Season 2 finale of Apple TV+'s "Bad Sisters."]

When Season 1 of "Bad Sisters" ended in 2022, the story of the Garvey sisters seemed to have reached a tidy conclusion. The evil John Paul was dead, killed not by one of his four sisters-in-law — each of whom had a compelling motive to commit murder — but...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Orange County-based Brew Ha Ha Productions and Punk in the Park are planning another St. Patrick’s Day celebration for punk rock and beer fans.

Lucky Punks!, a one-day craft beer and music festival, will be held at Oak Canyon Park in Silverado on Saturday, March 15. The festival will feature two stages with no overlapping ...Read more

The pop star Robbie Williams is leagues more famous in his homeland of England than here in the States, American tastemakers having capriciously chosen to ignore his chart-topping '90s boy band Take That and megawatt solo career. Go see his biopic anyway. All you need to know heading into "Better Man" is that Williams considers himself a ...Read more

Beyoncé lit up an NFL stage on Christmas Day, performing a medley of hits from her newest album, “Cowboy Carter,” at halftime of a game between the Baltimore Ravens and her hometown Houston Texans.

The performance went ahead with no technical issues on the Netflix streaming broadcast. Netflix’s ability to successfully stream both the NFL...Read more

Wendy Williams' family is "fighting" to get her back home from a facility where she's receiving treatment for her health issues, her son said.

The former daytime talk show host's son Kevin Hunter Jr. on Monday shared an update about his mom's health, days after she made a rare public appearance to attend his college graduation in Florida. Radio...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mariah Carey, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Christmas,” just earned herself another gift this year in the form of two new Billboard records.

Carey’s upbeat holiday pop song, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” has topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a 17th total week and set a new streaming record, according to the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tallulah Willis, the youngest daughter of actors Bruce Willis and his ex-wife Demi Moore, is engaged.

Willis, 30, on Monday made the announcement on Instagram, confirming that she and musician Justin Acee are affianced.

"everyday @justinacee," she wrote, captioning a carousel of photos from their proposal.

The first image ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Biopics are notorious for playing loose with facts. We understand, it’s poetic license, a desire by a filmmaker to add more drama to a not-compelling-enough real-life story. But we newspaper journalists are truth seekers. We want facts and timelines to be accurate, not conflated storylines to squeeze a wealth of (mis)...Read more

You can see the fire almost immediately. Rachel Morrison’s stirring sports drama “The Fire Inside” mostly focuses on boxer Claressa Shields’ teenage years (in which she’s played by Ryan Destiny), but in a brief prologue, we meet Claressa at perhaps 10 years old (played by Jazmin Headley). Watching her run determinedly through the ...Read more