Wednesday, June 25, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Cardi B, entering the newest phase of her rap career, has just one question in mind: "Am I the Drama?" That's the title for the Grammy winner's long-anticipated sophomore alb…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMAliens may have embraced Elio, but earthbound audiences did not, marking the lowest opening weekend ever for a Pixar film and highlighting the challenges for original animated movies. “Eli…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMMINNEAPOLIS — Scott Olson, the Minnesota native who made a significant contribution to one of the hottest trends of the ’80s, is getting the Hollywood treatment. The co-founder of Roller…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMTuesday, June 24, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Mick Ralphs, the guitarist and co-founder of stylish '70s rockers Mott the Hoople and the supergroup Bad Company, has died. He was 81. Ralphs' death was confirmed in a statem…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:54AMPHILADELPHIA — We’re finally going to see what happened on the other side of the "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia' and "Abbott Elementary" crossover. When the South Philly gang volun…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFollowing is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: JUNE 24: A Minecraft Movie 24: Snow White 24: The Monkey 24: Novocaine 24: Doctor Who: Season On…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:45AMMonday, June 23, 2025
ATLANTA — Doraville was a modest agricultural town off a major rail line that hit the big time in 1947 when General Motors opened an assembly plant there that defined its existence for dec…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMATLANTA — Imagine a futuristic world. In this world when you want to bathe, you do not step into a shower. Instead, a helicopter appears in the sky above you and releases a vortex of water…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:00AMSaturday, June 21, 2025
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, June 14, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powere…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMLOS ANGELES — Diego Luna revealed his personal experiences with Latinx typecasting in Hollywood prior to taking on the Empire in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” During an installment o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMFriday, June 20, 2025
ATLANTA — Atlanta native Stephen Wong graduated Georgia Tech in 2001 with a computer science degree but had an itch to get into movies. So he moved to San Francisco and got a degree focuse…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:56PMLOS ANGELES — Jason Segel and Kayla Radomski are taking their love to a new level: engagement. "Shrinking" star Segel, 45, popped the question to girlfriend and "So You Think You Can Dance…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:29AMThat old Pixar magic, once one of the most bankable commodities in Hollywood, is in short supply in "Elio," a run-of-the-mill animated tale about overcoming loneliness and alienation, even i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMMINNEAPOLIS — Ahead of its biggest hometown show ever and a cool batch of other summer gigs, one of the Twin Cities’ most popular rock bands of the 21st century has announced the release…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, June 19, 2025
LOS ANGELES — The musical “Real Women Have Curves” will close its run on Broadway on June 29. News of this cancellation comes less than two months after the official show debuted on Ap…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMSunday, June 15, 2025
LOS ANGELES — “Spaceballs 2” is incoming, director Mel Brooks confirmed Thursday on social media, 38 years after the original “Spaceballs” crashed onto the space-opera scene. Hey, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMFriday, June 13, 2025
LOS ANGELES — John Stamos was by Beach Boys founding member Mike Love's side when news of bandmate Brian Wilson's death on Wednesday was made public. The "Full House" star was also the mes…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:14PMATLANTA — Husband-and-wife world champion martial artists Justin Ortiz, 32, and Jewelianna Ramos-Ortiz, 26, laugh when they recount the story of their first audition in 2018 as stunt perfo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMThursday, June 12, 2025
DALLAS — Comedian Cristela Alonzo was once a young girl in Hidalgo County, living in abject poverty. Her family squatted for years in an abandoned diner. In the early aughts, as a 20-somet…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:15PMLOS ANGELES — Brian Wilson's death on Wednesday at the age of 82 heralds an end to one idea of Southern California — as the temperate paradise of ascendant Americana. Exuberance and drea…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:42AMOnly a few weeks ago, we were somewhat lamenting that another animated film had been adapted into such a faithful live-action version — even while liking the box office hit that is “Lilo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:45AMWednesday, June 11, 2025
The return of long-running TV show about a group of nurse midwives tops the DVD releases for the week of June 17. "Call the Midwife: Season Fourteen": The BBC drama, airing on PBS in the Sta…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMTuesday, June 10, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Sly Stone's hit-making era lasted all of six years — from the end of 1967 to the end of 1973 — but the music he made over that half-decade helped map the future. The sing…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:39PMWalt Disney Co. has agreed to pay Comcast Corp. an additional $438.7 million to finalize the Mouse House purchase of streaming service Hulu. Disney in December 2023 initially paid Comcast $8…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00PMSaturday, June 7, 2025
Well, perhaps Wes Anderson was overdue for a flop. The writer/director known for quirky visuals and charmingly self-conscious whimsy has had a long run of movies that were enchanting (“Fan…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:45AMLOS ANGELES — For more than a quarter century, director Kevin Smith has tried to resurrect "Dogma," his religious satire about two fallen angels looking to get back into heaven. Recently, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMFriday, June 6, 2025
When "Good Night, and Good Luck" arrived on Broadway this spring, it initially provoked a surprising amount of cynicism. There were complaints that the adaptation by George Clooney and Grant…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:43AMHere are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 31, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMThe meticulously crafted dollhouse world of director Wes Anderson expands even further with "The Phoenician Scheme," an externally wily yet internally melancholy comedy about international e…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMLOS ANGELES — The new film "Materialists" is something of a bargain: essentially two films in one. It's very much a sparkling romantic comedy in which a young woman finds herself torn betw…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMIf you’re still hungering for the touch of the Righteous Brothers, a duo that opened for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones six decades ago, Bill Medley is still on the road at age 84, sin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:45AM 
