Friday, August 1, 2025
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 26, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powere…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMYou have questions. I have some answers. Q: Many decades ago, I saw a show that began with a close-up of a man putting eye drops in his eyes and then letting out a bloodcurdling scream. I do…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMLOS ANGELES — Greg Saunier already had reasons to be wary of Spotify. The founder of the acclaimed Bay Area band Deerhoof was well acquainted with the service's meager payouts to artists a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMThe practice of building a situation comedy around a stand-up comedian is hallowed television practice, going back to Jack Benny and Danny Thomas and running forward through Bob Newhart, Ros…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMThursday, July 31, 2025
Look, the Bad Guys are trying their best. In the new animated romp “The Bad Guys 2,” the gang of anthropomorphic animals led by the Sam Rockwell-voiced Mr. Wolf has served its time in th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMEverywhere you look, something reminds you of it. “It,” in this case, is the absurdly funny, ridiculously silly 1988 slapstick comedy “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!”…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMWednesday, July 30, 2025
LOS ANGELES — The closing night selection of this year's New York Film Festival will be the world premiere of "Is This Thing On?" the latest film directed by Bradley Cooper. The film will …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:18AMLOS ANGELES — Adam Lambert sits on a rickety wooden chair just outside the main chapel at the Hollywood United Methodist Church on a break from rehearsing the musical "Jesus Christ Superst…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMThe idea of maintaining one's individuality while in a relationship or losing that sense of identity altogether and melding as a couple is taken to a hilarious, grotesque high in "Together,"…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMIn the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, “The Naked Gun” movies starring Leslie Nielsen were wildly popular and the height of absurdist comedy. The franchise gets revived this week with a ne…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMTuesday, July 29, 2025
Over the years, Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con has built a reputation — and an expectation — as the room where Hollywood juggernauts in attendance at the annual pop culture extravaganza u…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMSydney Chandler has wanted to attend San Diego Comic-Con as a fan for years. So it's "surreal" that the actor's first experience with the annual pop culture expo is to promote her upcoming F…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMMonday, July 28, 2025
Tom Lehrer, an acerbic songwriter and Harvard-trained mathematician who rose to fame in the 1950s and '60s by pillorying the sensibilities of the day, has died at age 97. Lehrer died at his …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:12AMSaturday, July 26, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Since its launch in November 2022, hundreds of millions of people have used ChatGPT to write wedding toasts, college essays, apology texts, bad jokes and even worse poetry. B…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMThursday, July 24, 2025
Dip a toe into any contemporary cultural anthropology, and it’s clear that the current state of dating (mostly for heterosexual people) is a mess. Men won’t commit, women’s standards a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMMINNEAPOLIS — A lesser-known film that arguably captures Prince at his best musically will be screened next month in the biggest movie theaters nationally. The 1987 concert film “Sign o�…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AM'THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS' Rated PG-13 for action/violence and some language. What it’s about: A quartet of superpowered scientists try to save the world on the retro 1960s Earth-82…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMWednesday, July 23, 2025
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The aroma of cedar wood filled the air and shavings fell around Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich as she carved away at one of her wooden sculptures. Working at her carvin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMTuesday, July 22, 2025
LOS ANGELES — The creators of Comedy Central's "South Park" reached a breakthrough Monday in the tense negotiations over the streaming rights of the long-running satirical cartoon. Paramou…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:29AMLOS ANGELES — When Bill Cosby revolutionized television during the mid-1980s with "The Cosby Show," the fictional Huxtables, the wealthy Black family at the center of the sitcom, were ofte…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:22AMThe American health care system stands at a crossroads — fragmented, costly and often failing the very people it aims to serve. Yet across hospitals, tech startups, policy labs and patient…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMThe final film in Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe the tops the DVD releases for the week of July 29. "Thunderbolts*": A group of MCU oddballs band together to form a team — one co…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFollowing is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: JULY 22: Final Destination Bloodlines 22: Fight or Flight 22: All We Imagine as Light 22: Ash 22…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:45AMMonday, July 21, 2025
SEATTLE — Nothing says summer more than a camping trip with friends or enjoying an outdoor concert. At the storied Gorge Amphitheatre, thousands of people do both each year. Located about …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:00AMSaturday, July 19, 2025
A lot has changed in Southport, North Carolina, since 1997. After that year’s string of bloody murders, the sleepy fishing burgh cleaned up its act and swept its gruesome history under the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMLOS ANGELES — Mexican superstar Belinda knew she wouldn’t generate much revenue from her viral song “Heterocomía.” She did it anyway. In an interview with CNN en Español, the singe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMLOS ANGELES — In 2018, Paul Simon walked onto the Hollywood Bowl stage for what most in the crowd believed to be his last tour stop in Los Angeles, ever. Simon expected that too — he'd b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMFriday, July 18, 2025
DALLAS — The Texas Theatre has screened countless films, but for Swiss-Ecuadorian guitarists Hermanos Gutiérrez’s new single with Fort Worth singer Leon Bridges, they turned the camera …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, July 17, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Chip Gaines had a few select words after Samaritan’s Purse founder Franklin Graham publicly criticized his and wife Joanna’s new HBO Max show for casting a same-sex coupl…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMLOS ANGELES — "You can steer yourself in any direction you choose," Dr. Seuss wrote in his beloved 1990 picture book "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" It seems pop star Ariana Grande has taken t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMWednesday, July 16, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Toni Gray’s phone is blowing up these days. The head of production at Dhar Mann Studios, which makes shows for YouTube and other online platforms, said entertainment indust…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AM 
