The world may be on fire but don’t worry, HBO Max has released its streaming lineup for July, and there are plenty of shows and movies that should help you disassociate from reality. We’re talking about more teen murder mystery with a new Pretty Little Liars series, some cartoon comedy courtesy of Bob’s Burgers, another … Read more
You can’t help falling in love with Austin Butler. The 30-year-old actor, who has mostly appeared in crummy TV shows like “The Carrie Diaries” up till now, soulfully croons and sways his hips right into our hearts as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s kaleidoscopic new biopic. movie review Running time: 159 minutes. Rated PG-13 (substance … Read more
Calling all Jane Austen fans! Netflix is due to add more than 100 shows and movies in July, including the new adaptation of Austen’s last novel, “Persuasion.” Starring Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis and Henry Goulding, the period film will premiere on Netflix on July 15. Other new original movies out next month include the spy … Read more
Like they say, go big or go home. In 2003, a retired Midwestern couple in their 60s chose the former by winning millions after discovering — and exploiting — a legal loophole in a lottery game sold across the United States. They are Jerry and Marge Selbee of Evart, Michigan. Together with their friends and … Read more
“In 1995, Andy got a toy from his favorite movie. This is that movie.” Just begins “Lightyear,” a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to the animation studio’s flagship franchise. It isn’t a prequel to “Toy Story,” exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz Lightyear toys in the first place. It’s … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Baker Hall, the prolific character actor of film and theater who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s first movies and who memorably hunted down a long-overdue library book in “Seinfeld,” has died. He was 90. Holly Wolfle Hall, the actor’s wife of nearly 40 years, on Monday said Hall died Sunday … Read more
Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramoun and Skydance In holdover news, the big story was again the remarkable legs shown by Skydance and Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick. It earned $50 million in its third domestic weekend, dropping just 44% for a $393 million 17-day total. That essentially ties it with Rain Man ($172 million … Read more
Nearly 200 writers, actors and directors have signed a petition calling for Hollywood to “harness their power as culture makers” and reconsider how they portray gun use in film. The petition, reported by the newsletter The Ankler, urges the industry to limit scenes involving children and guns and to explicitly show first characters locking their … Read more
This Saturday, “ET the Extra-Terrestrial” turns 40. But the iconic alien doesn’t look a day over 10 million — his approximate age in a novelization of the 1982 film. Steven Spielberg’s family drama, in which a young boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas) finds a lost alien in his yard, was an instant classic. It made … Read more
When Hao Jia received an email from Coinbase that his job offer had been rescinded, he was on his way to watch “Top Gun: Maverick,” the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. Jia’s girlfriend had asked him to watch it for her because she was in China, where the film has not been released, and she … Read more
