Entertainment

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Dramatizations tend to take liberties with the facts, but the issues surrounding 2022’s debut season of “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” were as much about its leering tone as fudging the details. The second season doesn’t fix those problems – in ways, it adds to

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Tony Bennett’s wife and son are sharing some of their final memories of him. Danny Bennett and Susan Benedetto spoke with “Today” about the legendary singer, who died recently at the age of 96. Danny Bennett, who is the son of the star and his former wife Patricia

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Steven Spielberg went to great lengths to convince an initially apprehensive Will Smith to star in the 1997 sci-fi blockbuster “Men in Black.” Appearing on Kevin Hart’s Peacock show “Hart to Hart” on Thursday, Smith said that Spielberg “sent a helicopter for me… to talk,” in order to convince

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “The Meg” was agreeably silly, with a better business plan than a script: A mashup of “Jaws” and “Jurassic Park,” the movie paired Jason Statham with an international cast to boost its global appeal, particularly in China. Washing ashore five years later, “Meg 2: The Trench” doesn’t overly

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN (CNN) — Marvel actor Jonathan Majors’ trial pertaining to assault and harassment charges leveled against him has been pushed to September 6th, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Majors was expected in court Thursday for a previously set trial start date. It was not immediately clear what pushed the trial

CNN By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Lizzo is addressing a lawsuit filed against her by three of her former dancers. The complaint, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday and obtained by CNN through an attorney for the plaintiffs, alleges that the three women were subjected to a hostile work environment and

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Marc Maron has a lot to say about “Barbie.” The comedian and actor called the Greta Gerwig directed movie “f—ing monumental,” and called out those who are bashing it. “I saw ‘Barbie’ and I thought it was a f—ing masterpiece,” Maron said on Instagram Live this week. “I don’t

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Nothing particularly dramatic happens during “Heartstopper,” the British teen drama that returns for its second season this week. And that alone, oddly, makes the show – which the San Francisco Chronicle rightly dubbed “the anti-‘Euphoria’” – feel somehow revolutionary, even more so a year after its US debut.

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Lizzo is addressing a lawsuit filed against her by three of her former dancers. The complaint, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday and obtained by CNN through an attorney for the plaintiffs, alleges that the three women were subjected to a hostile work environment and harassment