Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Giving the “National Treasure” movies a young-adult spin, “National Treasure: Edge of History” transforms the franchise into a Disney+ series, one that offers the same playful approach to the past while weighing that down with tiresome relationship issues and a protagonist with her own Scooby gang. The opening episodes have
Continue Reading By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Ellen DeGeneres has issued a statement regarding the death of her former talk show’s longtime DJ and co-executive producer, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, saying on Wednesday that she’s “heartbroken” over his passing. “I’m heartbroken. tWitch was pure love and light,” she wrote on Instagram. “He was my family, and I loved him
Continue Reading By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Ellen DeGeneres has issued a statement regarding the death of her former talk show’s longtime DJ and co-executive producer, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, saying on Wednesday that she’s “heartbroken” over his passing. “I’m heartbroken. tWitch was pure love and light,” she wrote on Instagram. “He was my family, and I loved him
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Are you ready for round two? The final three episodes of the eagerly awaited Netflix docuseries from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are releasing on Thursday. Netflix split the six-part series into two volumes, with the first installment uploaded to its online platform last week at 3 a.m ET. Speculation
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Will Smith says he decided not to be a part of the film “Django Unchained” after seeing the looks on his children’s faces after they had a family meeting about the role. Therefore it makes sense that he would take over his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s series “Red Table Talk”
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the amiable DJ for “Ellen DeGeneres Show” and dancer who rose to fame on “So You Think You Can Dance,” has died, his wife, fellow dancer Allison Holker Boss, confirmed in a statement to CNN. He was 40. “It is with the heaviest of hearts that I
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Patty Jenkins has some things she would like to clear up. The director posted a lengthy note on social media to have her say after reports that DC FIlms (which is owned by CNN’s parent company) would not be moving ahead with a third installment of the “Wonder Woman” franchise.
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN “The Voice” Season 22 has a winner. Spoiler warning ahead. Bryce Leatherwood from Team Blake has been crowned the latest winner of the singing competition show. He performed coach Blake Shelton’s version “Goodbye Time” for his blind audition. Shelton, who early on said Leatherwood had the perfect country name for a
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Scarlett Johansson is opening up about some of her early roles. During a conversation on the “Table for Two” podcast on Tuesday, Johansson described how she felt while filming her 2003 movies “Lost in Translation” and “Girl with a Pearl Earring” while she was still a teenager. “It sort of was
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN This annual list of 25 influential films to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress has been revealed. The eclectic Hollywood releases selected this year include Marvel’s “Iron Man,” Disney’s beloved animated film “The Little Mermaid,” John Waters’ quirky “Hairspray,” the romantic comedy “When Harry
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Europe has been winning the tourism game in 2022, says a new report by a UK-based market research company called — no bias intended — Euromonitor. Each year, its annual report compares the attractiveness of 100 cities worldwide across six categories — or “pillars” — including tourism policy and performance, sustainability,
Continue Reading Silvia Marchetti, CNN Ever dreamed of owning your own secret citadel in a beautiful region of Italy, wandering along its fortified walls like a monarch surveying their kingdom? For less than the price of a townhouse in central London or an attic apartment in Rome’s historic center — that dream can now come true. The
Continue Reading Catherine Shoichet, CNN British journalist Ryan Herman still remembers the first football ground he ever visited as a kid in 1978 — the sights, the sounds and yes, the score. Liverpool beat West Ham United 2-0 on that day at the latter’s home grounds, Upton Park, but for Herman, the experience was about so much
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN Chaitali Aggarwal had long dreamed of visiting New York from her home in the Indian capital, New Delhi. And so in 2020, she applied for a tourist visa for herself and her father. Two years later, they’re still waiting. Of course, as with all globetrotting, Covid-19 got in the way. But
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN Jay Leno has opened up for the first time about the accident that left him with severe burns to his face and body. In an interview with Hoda Kotb from “Today,” his first since the November 12 incident, the comedian, 72, said he was working underneath an antique 1907 car alongside
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN After a breathtaking debut in 2018’s Oscar-winning animated “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” Miles Morales is back for more universe-crossing adventures. The first trailer for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” dropped on Tuesday, starting off with a contemplative moment between Morales — one of multiple Spider-Men throughout the multiverse — talking to his
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Angelo Badalamenti, the composer behind several beloved soundtracks, including David Lynch’s cult hit “Twin Peaks,” has died at 85. His niece, the writer Frances Badalamenti, confirmed his death to CNN. Badalamenti soundtracked several films over five decades, working with directors like Jane Campion, Danny Boyle and Paul Schrader. But he’s perhaps
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN After starting out well, “Kindred” gets lost in a maze of its own making, adapting Octavia E. Butler’s time-traveling novel into an eight-part Hulu series that spends far too much time spinning its wheels. In that regard, it joins “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and “Paper Girls” as recent examples of
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN After starting out well, “Kindred” gets lost in a maze of its own making, adapting Octavia E. Butler’s time-traveling novel into an eight-part Hulu series that spends far too much time spinning its wheels. In that regard, it joins “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and “Paper Girls” as recent examples of
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Avatar” took a very basic story and adorned it with eye-popping spectacle, in a way that made the film a must-see commodity, and a record-breaking hit in the process. Thirteen years later, braving much different theatrical tides, director James Cameron has done it again with “Avatar: The Way of Water,”
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