By Lisa Respers France and Taylor Romine, CNN Kanye West has explained his thinking behind his decision to dress himself and several Black models in “White Lives Matter” shirts earlier this week. West, who legally changed his name to “Ye,” told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he wore it because “it’s the obvious thing.”
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN The curse of “Stranger Things” means every sci-fi/macabre concept involving teenagers will seemingly have its day on TV, with “The Midnight Club” as the latest example. It’s creepy, to a point, but moves at a crawl, while focusing on the provocative if unappealing premise of eight kids with terminal illnesses.
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Luckiest Girl Alive” has a lot going on, in a way that undermines the movie’s translation from book to screen. Mila Kunis produces and stars in this #MeToo-tinged story, which awkwardly incorporates a mass school shooting as well as gender and class politics into what becomes an ungainly mix of
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Luckiest Girl Alive” has a lot going on, in a way that undermines the movie’s translation from book to screen. Mila Kunis produces and stars in this #MeToo-tinged story, which awkwardly incorporates a mass school shooting as well as gender and class politics into what becomes an ungainly mix of
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Amsterdam” certainly doesn’t suffer from a lack of ambition, and the star-studded cast merely adds to that sense of grandeur. Yet writer-director David O. Russell has assembled them in the service of a disjointed story and a movie that’s too precious for its own good, wrapping his mix of fact
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Amsterdam” certainly doesn’t suffer from a lack of ambition, and the star-studded cast merely adds to that sense of grandeur. Yet writer-director David O. Russell has assembled them in the service of a disjointed story and a movie that’s too precious for its own good, wrapping his mix of fact
Continue Reading By Megan Thomas, CNN Sara Lee, a 2015 winner of the World Wrestling Entertainment reality competition series “Tough Enough,” has died, according to a statement from her mother shared on social media. She was 30. “It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that our Sarah Weston has gone to be with Jesus,”
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN Video game purists expecting a faithful adaptation of the original Nintendo game might be somewhat surprised by first teaser for the new “Super Mario Bros. Movie,” which debuted on Thursday. The clip’s dark and bombastic opening features King Koopa, voiced by Jack Black, as he lands in a fiery, rocky ship
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN To those looking forward to the rest of Justin Bieber’s Justice World Tour, there’s only one appropriate word: Sorry. In a statement posted to the verified @Justicetour Instagram account, it was announced that the tour has “ended” for now and that the remainder of Bieber’s show dates are being postponed. The
Continue Reading By Sonia Moghe, CNN Attorneys for actors Kevin Spacey and Anthony Rapp delivered their opening statements on Thursday, kicking off the court proceedings relating to a civil suit filed by Rapp that accuses the former “House of Cards” star of sexual misconduct. Rapp, best known for his role in “Star Trek: Discovery,” sued Spacey in
Continue Reading By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN A judge has ruled that Anna Sorokin, the fake heiress Netflix’s “Inventing Anna” is based on, can be released from jail on bond while she fights deportation — if certain conditions are met. According to court records, Immigration Judge Charles Conroy found this week that Sorokin can be released on
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Flexing different muscles, Marvel’s “Werewolf by Night” is a nifty Halloween-timed special designed as a black-and-white homage to the Universal monster movies of the 1930s and ’40s. Told with wry humor while tapping into unexplored quadrants of comics lore, it’s a bit too gory and scary for younger kids but
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN “The White Lotus” is giving us a sneak peek at Season 2. Jennifer Coolidge returns to the HBO series, this time set in Sicily. “Whenever I stay at a White Lotus, I always have a memorable time. Always,” the recent Emmy winner says in the trailer. The new season, set to
Continue Reading By Stella Chan, CNN A Hollywood TV producer was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault, including rape, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced Wednesday. Eric Weinberg, a producer and writer whose credits include “Scrubs,” “Californication,” and “Veronica’s Closet,” faces 18 charges involving five women between 2014 and 2019, according to the complaint,
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Jared Leto will star in and produce a biopic of Karl Lagerfeld, Women’s Wear Daily reports. The Oscar winner says he thinks the late fashion designer and former artistic director of Chanel would be proud. “I feel like this is a full-circle moment, and Karl would be proud of what we
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN As she always does, Jada Pinkett Smith is going to tell it like it is. The “Red Table Talk” host is set to publish a memoir with Dey Street Books, a HarperCollins imprint, in fall 2023, People reports. Smith will chronicle “lessons learned in the course of a difficult but riveting
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN A funny thing happened when Jessica Betts asked Niecy Nash about her birth name. During a recent appearance on “The Tamron Hall Show,” the couple, who married in 2020, recounted how when they first became friends, Betts asks Nash about her name. “She said she said ‘Carol,’ but I thought
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Cory Hardrict is shutting down talk that he was unfaithful to wife Tia Mowry in the wake of her announcing their split after 14 years of marriage. The “All American: Homecoming” actor responded after someone alleged in a comment on his verified Instagram account that he had “cheated on her.”
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Wynonna Judd has addressed speculation that she and her sister Ashley Judd are locked in a battle over their late mother Naomi Judd’s will. The Judd matriarch died by suicide in April at the age of 76, and Wynonna Judd told People magazine she was at Ashley’s home when someone
Continue Reading By Brian Lowry, CNN Joe Berlinger maintains he didn’t set out to become the official chronicler of notorious serial killers, but the producer finds himself capping off a “trilogy” of real-life horror via Netflix’s “Conversations With a Killer” series, which — after multipart documentaries devoted to Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy — shifts to
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