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

LOS ANGELES — It's been more than three years since college student Justin Lin binge-watched the first season of Netflix's "Squid Game" in two days. Now, he can't wait until Season 2 launches on Netflix on Dec. 26.

Lin was so excited that he drove from the San Gabriel Valley to Hollywood to don a green tracksuit and compete against other fans...Read more

A Hollywood love letter to Bob Dylan, with all that implies, “A Complete Unknown” works well on its chosen, extremely glossy terms. Its craftsmanship is formidable. Then again, you don’t necessarily need quality to sell one of these things, as “Bohemian Rhapsody” reminded us.

If the average fan goes to a movie about a musical genius ...Read more

With her daring new erotic thriller “Babygirl” hitting theaters Dec. 25, Nicole Kidman turns in yet another unconventional (and sexy) Christmas movie, making for a perfect pairing with “Eyes Wide Shut,” Stanley Kubrick’s Christmas in New York tale of sexual obsession, starring the married (at the time) couple of Kidman and Tom Cruise. ...Read more

“The Fire Inside” burns most intensely when Ryan Destiny and Brian Tyree Henry share the screen.

Fortunately, they do so quite a bit in the impressive directorial debut of cinematographer Rachel Morrison, in theaters on Christmas Day.

They star in the biopic about amateur-turned-professional boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, as Claressa ...Read more

When "Squid Game" was released on Netflix in 2021, it took the world by storm. Created by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the acclaimed Korean survival drama spurred plenty of social media chatter, viral challenges and even Halloween costumes on its way to becoming the streamer's most-watched show ever.

On Thursday, the Emmy-winning series returns for round ...Read more

Humans have made sex so complicated it's a wonder anyone gets born. We wrestle with what we want, what we think we want, and what we want other people to think we want. (Not to mention what we think they want, which is how busybodies spend their time.) Our species puts itself under so much scrutiny that desire gets subverted by irony and shame, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego seemed busier than ever when it came to music in 2024.

The year included the opening of intimate and large new concert venues alike, the return of a major three-day festival, an outdoor concert season that stretched into December and the November announcement that at least eight former and current San Diego artists had ...Read more

Nicholas Hoult has the prosthetic penis worn by his 'Nosferatu' co-star Bill Skarsgard "framed at home".

The 35-year-old star plays Thomas Hutter in the new horror film and revealed that he received the prosthesis as a gift from director Robert Eggers after he got slightly too close to Skarsgard's vampire Count Orlok during a scene.

In an ...Read more