Thursday, April 17, 2025
There’s an easy intimacy and warmth that immediately emanates from Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet,” an affable remake of the 1993 Ang Lee film. He crafts a cinematic world that yo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, April 16, 2025
In “Sinners,” his bloody new historical blockbuster, writer/director Ryan Coogler feels unleashed in a way he hasn’t been before — and that’s a good thing. Free from the shackles o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, April 15, 2025
The wife of late actor Gene Hackman reportedly worried the 95-year-old was experiencing signs of COVID before he died from heart disease in mid-February. Betsy Arakawa, 65, searched online f…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:52PMSaturday, April 12, 2025
[This article contains spoilers for the Season 3 finale of "Yellowjackets."] "I can hear you." The Season 3 finale of Showtime's "Yellowjackets" on Friday ended with four significant words t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMAfter a two-year wait, everyone's favorite fungal zombie apocalypse show is finally back: The second season of "The Last of Us" premieres Sunday. Created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, H…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMLAS VEGAS — Banjos and mosh pits, cowboy boots and fuzzy boots — oh, and did we mention the three-story-high, flame-spewing sculptures? Yes, Las Vegas festival season is upon us once aga…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[This article contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of "The Pitt."] It almost feels like Noah Wyle's life as a pretend doctor was destined when he casually mentions a detail from his chi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, April 11, 2025
Set in Canada's northernmost territory among the Indigenous Inuit people, "North by North," which premiered Thursday on Netflix, is a charming small-town comedy, with — as is so often the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, April 10, 2025
'DROP' Rated PG-13 for strong violent content, suicide, some strong language and sexual references. What it’s about: A single mother on a first date is tormented by threatening cellphone m…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMThe poster for Christopher Landon’s “Drop” features star Meghann Fahy’s eyes peering over the top of a mobile phone. This image conveys everything you need to know about “Drop,” …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMINNEAPOLIS — At first, it looked like Jack White wasn’t going to pivot much on Night 2 at the Palace Theatre. Nor should he have felt obligated to. Returning for his second of two insta…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMYou've never seen war on-screen quite like this, and you've never heard war on-screen quite like this. "Warfare" is an unnervingly intense combat film about a group of American soldiers unde…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMReasons for optimism? “You’re Friends & Neighbors” offers a few. First, the new drama series marks “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm’s return to a leading TV role, this time as a man w…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, April 9, 2025
PHILADELPHIA — Thom Cardwell, 79, of Philadelphia, a screenwriter, film producer, queer icon, and local celebrity, died Jan. 2 in Germantown after a yearlong battle with health complicatio…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:39PMMINNEAPOLIS — Paisley Park has announced some details for Celebration 2025 set for June 5-8 in Chanhassen and downtown Minneapolis. The annual celebration of Prince will honor things that …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:45AMMINNEAPOLIS — Oops, he did it again. Destroyed the place. After putting on one of the most electrifying and maniacally rocking performances in recent history at First Avenue last fall, Jac…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, April 8, 2025
If the first season of "The Last of Us" is about survival, the second is fueled by revenge. Or, if you want to get all existential about it, consequences. For those who know anything about t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMSaturday, April 5, 2025
PHILADELPHIA — Last August, Anthony Roth Costanzo rolled the dice on a novel idea. Faced with weak ticket sales, past debt and a shaky financial outlook, the Opera Philadelphia general dir…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMLAS VEGAS — Sphere Entertainment on Friday announced two new experiences, “The Wizard of Oz” and “From the Edge,” will be featured at the Las Vegas attraction. As part of the new e…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMATLANTA — Finn Wolfhard effectively has spent his teen years into his early adulthood in the upside-down world of “Stranger Things,” the monster Netflix series that shepherded the worl…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMEver since "Scream" came along and winked the slasher movie to death — all while being a damn good slasher movie itself — horror-comedies have had a difficult time finding the right tone…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, April 4, 2025
There are three great performances in "The Friend," and only two of them are from humans. Naomi Watts leads this sharp, buoyant drama about life, death and companionship. She plays Iris, the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMHere are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 29, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, power…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, April 3, 2025
PHILADELPHIA — Indie singer-songwriter and former Philadelphian Lucy Dacus’ new album, "Forever Is a Feeling" was released March 28 and as it turns out, there’s still some Philly influ…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSAN FRANCISCO — In early 2020, Albert Jones was sitting in his cell on San Quentin's death row, as he had every day for nearly three decades, when reports of a mysterious respiratory illne…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, April 2, 2025
More than a decade has passed since the release of Disney’s hit adaptation of Judith Viorst’s beloved 1972 children’s book, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad D…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AM“The Luckiest Man in America” is an ironic title for the story of Michael Larson, the Ohio man who managed to win over $110,000 on a 1984 episode of the game show “Press Your Luck.” …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMIt’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, California, of the mid-1980s. You need not have grown up then and there — as one of the film’s co-writers and -directo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, March 29, 2025
“Film is my life,” says an earnest Hollywood executive (Seth Rogen), in a meeting that might determine his professional fate. His big-studio boss (Bryan Cranston, decked out in a turtlen…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, March 27, 2025
In the latest episode of “Jason Statham Takes On,” otherwise known as “A Working Man,” directed by David Ayer, our hairless hero takes on the Chicago branch of the Russian mob, as we…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, March 25, 2025
Alain Guiraudie's marvelously unsentimental French thriller begins in a mood of death, one it never quite shakes as events pick up in a twisty way. A baker has died. He lived in the remote c…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
