Entertainment

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN A taut true-crime tale, “Black Bird” delivers a tense and mostly compelling game of cat and mouse, finding a new avenue into the well-worn world of serial killers via a jailhouse informant desperate to uncover information to commute his sentence. Featuring one of the late Ray Liotta’s final performances, the

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Depending on who you ask, the “Thor” films are either a love story about a boy and his hammer — or the love between a boy and his brother, or a boy and a brilliant, beautiful scientist or, more recently, a boy and an intergalactic raccoon. “Thor: Love and Thunder,” the

By Chloe Melas, CNN It has arrived in all its glory. Yes, the “Clerks III” trailer is here. The film follows Randal Graves [Jeff Anderson], as he decides to make a movie about his life at the convenience store, following a massive heart attack. Probably not a coincidence that the health scare was written into

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Lil Jon isn’t used to reminiscing. “I’m always pushing forward and not really thinking about everything I’ve done in my career and … the span of it,” he told CNN in a recent interview. But now the producer and artist behind hits such as “Get Low,” “Turn Down For What”

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Google honored barrier-breaking comedian Charlie Hill, the first Native American comic to appear on national TV, with a Doodle on what would’ve been his 71st birthday. When Hill was a young comic in the 1970s, he refused to deign to racist stereotypes of Native Americans. Rather, his material addressed bigotry toward

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Your bad, Taika Waititi. The “Thor: Love and Thunder” director told Rolling Stone he forgot about his film’s star, Natalie Portman, being part of the “Star Wars” franchise. According to Waititi, his initial conversation with Portman went like this: “Natalie said to me, what do you do next? And I

By Chloe Melas, CNN Noah Cyrus is opening up about her addiction to prescription medication. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the singer, 22, says that when she turned 18, she began taking Xanax. “My boyfriend at the time, when I was 18, was the first person that gave me a Xanax, and it

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Bette Midler and Macy Gray have each responded to criticism some recent comments they made were transphobic. Midler was slammed for tweeting, “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name!” “They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they