Thursday, April 10, 2025
You'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 06:00AMThursday, March 20, 2025
It’s hard out here for Snow White. Yes, the character has it rough, losing her parents, targeted by her jealous stepmother who happens to be both a witch and an evil queen, poisoned by app…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM'SNOW WHITE' Rated PG for violence, some peril, thematic elements and brief rude humor. What it’s about: This musical adaptation of the 1937 animated Disney feature has a modern sensibilit…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMLOS ANGELES — Gwyneth Paltrow did not hold back when discussing intimate scenes with Timothée Chalamet in the upcoming movie "Marty Supreme." Paltrow, 52, put it bluntly: "I was like, 'Ok…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMartin Scorsese’s rueful, poignant 2019 film “The Irishman,” starring longtime collaborator Robert De Niro, was a reflection on (or perhaps even a eulogy for) the kind of gangster film…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, March 19, 2025
A recent Academy Award-winning drama tops the DVD releases for the week of March 25. "The Brutalist": Adrien Brody claimed his second best actor Oscar for his portrayal of an architect who c…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, March 15, 2025
She’s just a girl who liked something she saw on arch-conservative Tucker Carlson’s streaming show. Gwen Stefani, onetime frontwoman of the pop-punk band No Doubt, is taking fire from fa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:48PMKelsea Ballerini made headlines this week for a reason no performer wants to. Her fans — at least those who had tickets for her March 28 show at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas — are not…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:30AMHere are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 8, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powere…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, March 14, 2025
To some, Paris is the City of Light. To art lovers, it's simply the city of art.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:11PMLOS ANGELES — Wendy Williams has a vocal supporter in former child star and cryptocurrency mogul Brock Pierce. Pierce, who rose to fame of his time on "The Mighty Ducks" before co-founding…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, March 12, 2025
Three years of living in her car have been a “growth period” for Dawn Robinson, the En Vogue founding member said in a YouTube reveal of her surprising situation.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:08PM 
