To Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former bodyguard, the embattled music mogul and alcohol entrepreneur has a “God syndrome.”

“He’s a king manipulator. He can manipulate anything, anyone,” said Roger Bonds, Combs’ former head of security. “Money and power is all he’s all about.”

Bonds, who served on Combs’ security staff for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — If TikTok is eventually banned in the U.S., at least Pavement will have a gold record to show for it.

The acerbic Stockton indie rockers, beloved for their spiky guitar interplay and frontman Stephen Malkmus’ bone-dry wit, released a number of rock-critic-beloved albums in the ‘90s for indie label Matador, and returned as ...Read more

Two weeks after its debut, Amazon Prime is touting its Anne Hathaway rom-com “The Idea of You” as a major hit.

The film, about a 40-year-old single mom falling in love with a boy band singer, was set in Silver Lake, California, but shot in metro Atlanta in fall of 2022.

Amazon said it’s the streaming service’s biggest debut ever for a ...Read more

Based on previous roles, viewers might expect that Chris Hemsworth plays a heroic character in "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga." He very much does not.

He's pretty much the anti-"Thor." Taylor Swift could practically be singing about his Dr. Dementus in "Anti-Hero": It's him. Hi. He's the problem. It's him.

As might be expected to happen when parents...Read more

The founding drummer of rock band Staind, Jon Wysocki, has died at age 56.

Wysocki died Saturday night, according to his band, Lydia’s Castle, which posted on Instagram that the drummer “passed away surrounded by family and friends that loved him dearly.” The post included an earlier photo of the bandmates in a group hug, with Wysocki’s...Read more

Peloton has dropped Sean “Diddy” Combs’ music from its programming, just days after disturbing video surfaced of the music mogul assaulting ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.

Sources with direct knowledge confirmed to TMZ that the fitness company was severing ties with Combs’ music and that of Bad Boy Records, ...Read more

Australian filmmaker George Miller has been shaping our vision of a post-apocalyptic future for the past 45 years, since his “Mad Max” roared onto screens in 1979. His 2015 installment “Mad Max: Fury Road” could be one of the best films of the 21st century, a dusty, fuel-injected chase across the desert that synthesizes everything wrong ...Read more

With summer movie season already in full-swing, thanks to “The Fall Guy,” “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” and “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” bringing big-screen spectacle to theaters, it’s also a time to look back on the best films from the first half of the year and catch up with some of the titles that you may have missed.

Two ...Read more

CANNES, France — To anyone worried that “Megalopolis” would be the only risky, expensive late-career epic from a Hollywood legend to premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, breathe easy. With “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1” (three more parts are planned), Kevin Costner has you covered.

The “Dances With Wolves” ...Read more

CANNES, France — No monster shambles into being fully formed. They're made, sometimes lovingly tended to, by our own worst impulses.

Shrewdly, "The Apprentice," a hypnotically trashy biopic detailing Donald Trump's rise to prominence in the ratty, Koch-era New York of the 1970s and '80s, requires no sympathy for the future president. That's a...Read more

Amy Winehouse’s apparent shade at Justin Timberlake during the 2008 Grammy Awards has been left out of “Back to Black,” the new biopic based on the life and career of the late British singer-songwriter.

Winehouse, a massively influential musician who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of 27, became an international superstar ...Read more

Jerry Seinfeld’s week of difficult appearances continues, this time in Virginia.

As soon as Seinfeld took the stage for a stand-up comedy set at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk on Saturday night, a man in the audience jumped up and yelled, “Free Gaza,” TMZ reported. The audience immediately began booing the heckler and chanting “Jerry! Jerry!�...Read more

Jason Momoa is officially off the market.

The “Aquaman” star has gone Instagram Official with his latest love interest: Adria Arjona.

Snapshots from a trip to Japan with the 32-year-old “Hit Man” actress by his side were shared on social media on Monday.

“Japan, you are a dream come true you blew my mind,” he wrote in the post, ...Read more

Actress Nina Dobrev is recovering in a hospital after she was injured in a bike crash.

The 35-year-old “Degrassi” and “Vampire Diaries” star shared two Instagram photos on Monday with the caption “how it started vs. how it’s going.” In the first photo, Dobrev sits atop a black motorbike on an empty street. In the followup, she ...Read more

Actress Sarah Wayne Callies’ career was largely launched by her performance in “Prison Break,” but not without a cost.

The star of “The Walking Dead” and other series described the “Prison Break” set as rife with “rampant misogyny,” providing details Monday on the Rachel Bilson podcast “Broad Ideas.”

Many of the guys on ...Read more

CANNES, France — "Is it too real for ya?" snarls the Gang of Four-soundalike punk band Fontaines D.C. over a thrumming bass line on the soundtrack to "Bird" as we cruise the streets of Gravesend, Kent, east of London. How's this for too real? Piloting an e-scooter is the shirtless, much-tatted Bug, played by Barry Keoghan, last seen in "...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A decade-long odyssey that began with a Charlotte native’s idea for a musical inspired by an old Avett Brothers album culminated with the Concord band announcing that their show, “Swept Away,” is headed to Broadway this fall.

Fittingly, the folk-rock band delivered the Broadway-bound news at a concert in New York, and ...Read more

CANNES, France — "It's time to make movies political again," director Ali Abbasi said after unveiling his Donald Trump biopic "The Apprentice" at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday — and he swiftly got his wish.

"We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers. This garbage is pure fiction...Read more

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

MAY

21: Betty's Bad Luck in Love

21: Chasing Raine

21: Fitting In

21: Frasier

21: Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène

28: Bob Marley: One Love

28: Arthur the King

28: Anatomy of a Fall

28: In the Land of Saints and Sinners

28: ...Read more