TV amp; Movies

You’re used to hearing the sound of “Bruce! Bruuuce! Broooooooooose!” in giant, rock-friendly arenas all over the world. The echo of fans screaming out Bruce Springsteen‘s name in the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, however, feels weird — the 2,600 capacity venue is pretty intimate compared to most places the …

Ali Wong is returning to Netflix with her fourth comedy special. On Monday, the streaming service announced that Ali Wong will premiere Ali Wong: Single Lady, a special about her “divorced mom era,” on Oct. 8. The new special was filmed during one of her Netflix Is a Joke Fest …

James Earl Jones, the renowned actor of stage and screen who lent his booming, inimitable voice to Darth Vader and The Lion King, died Monday morning at the age of 93. Jones died at his home in Duchess County, New York, with his family surrounding him, the actor’s representatives at …

When news hit this afternoon of James Earl Jones’ death at age 93, the memories that came to mind likely depend on when you came of age. If you grew up in the Nineties, you probably thought back to The Lion King and The Sandlot. If you’re a bit older, …

Hollywood is mourning a legendary actor. On Monday, following the death of James Earl Jones, dozens of celebrities shared tributes to the actor who voiced Mufasa in The Lion King and Darth Vader in Star Wars. Jones died at his home in New York at the age of 93. In …

There’s a reason that hardline American conservatives regard so many books, movies, TV shows, music, theater, and other creative arts as ideologically poisonous, tools for “indoctrinating” people with “woke” values or “grooming” children to adopt an LGBTQ+ identity and become sexually permissive. It’s because they find little value in a …

Imagine a film archivist scouring an underground vault in Burbank or a cave in Butte, Montana, and discovering a few dozen dusty film canisters tucked away in a corner. Reels of some long-lost project from Francis Ford Coppola, or Bernardo Bertolucci, or Michael Cimino circa the mid-1970s reside in these …

The Tonight Show will scale back to four new episodes a week, with Jimmy Fallon joining his fellow late-night hosts by airing repeats on Fridays. While Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night With Seth Meyers had all stopped producing new episodes for Friday nights in …

A feature film documentary about the life of Jimi Hendrix is on the way. On Friday, the film’s producers announced that Bao Nguyen, the director behind The Greatest Night in Pop, will direct the upcoming film, Jimi. “Telling the story of Jimi Hendrix during his pivotal years in London is …

Just over a month after SAG-AFTRAchief negotiator and executive directorDuncan Crabtree-Irelandcalled for a strike against video game companies, 80 games have agreed to tiered-budget or interim agreements, which include “common sense A.I. protections.” “We applaud those video game companies signing our tiered-budget and interim agreement,” read a statement from Crabtree-Ireland. …