Movies
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Captivated by the multiverse? Here's a guide to some alternate realities
Jun 23, 2023 10:00 am - Loved “Everything Everywhere All at Once?” Can't get enough of “The Flash” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” this month? Then this list is for you. We've compile...
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Wes Anderson's stylized, star-stuffed comedy 'Asteroid City' big on both spectacle and dramatic inertiaJun 22, 2023 6:00 am - “Asteroid City” - ★ ★ ½ “Asteroid City”? A fun, nostalgically retro place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there for a full 104 minutes. By now, the dazzling visua...
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Bold, bawdy 'No Hard Feelings' blends laughs with lessons in forgivenessJun 22, 2023 6:00 am - “No Hard Feelings” - ★ ★ ½ I went into a press screening of “No Hard Feelings” expecting something crass and bawdy. After all, the story concerns a young woman who acce...
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Widescreen: How Disney+ created Pixar's 'Elemental' box office woesJun 21, 2023 11:00 pm - Pixar's "Elemental" hit theaters last week with a resounding thud - the latest high-concept animated film from the Disney division debuted with a $29 million opening wee...
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New to streaming this week: 'The Bear' is back, Kelly Clarkson sings, Robert Downey Jr. drives
Jun 18, 2023 11:00 pm - Albums from Kelly Clarkson and Portugal. The Man, as well as the new season of "And Just Like That" are among the new television, movies, music and games headed to a dev...
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Timing is key to mastering animated characters, 'Elemental' star Wendi McLendon-Covey saysJun 18, 2023 6:00 am - Actress Wendi McLendon-Covey burst on to the media scene with a breakout performance in the 2011 comedy film “Bridesmaids” before landing a dream job playing family matr...
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'The Flash' opens to $55 million, a step off the typical superhero pace
Jun 18, 2023 1:00 am - DC and Warner Bros.' long-in-the-works superhero movie "The Flash" opened to $55 million in its first three days in North American theaters, according to studio estimate...
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In 'Extraction 2,' Chris Hemsworth returns as a gun-for-hire who pulls you completely in
Jun 16, 2023 6:00 am - “Extraction 2” — ★ ★ ★ Tyler Rake was clinically dead when we last saw him at the end of “Extraction,” tumbling over a bridge in Bangladesh with a fatal, burbling b...
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Widescreen: Vivien Leigh, Pete Davidson and the weirdest double feature everJun 15, 2023 6:00 am - As someone who professes to be a film lover, I am embarrassed to admit I had never seen the 1951 Tennessee Williams classic “A Streetcar Named Desire” until this past Tu...
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Ezra Miller speeds back to the future in 'The Flash,' fueled by calories and cameos
Jun 15, 2023 6:00 am - “The Flash” - ★ ★ ½ “It's not nice to fool Mother Nature,” went a famous '70s commercial catchphrase. But we learn in “The Flash” - the much awaited, long gestated new D...