Movies
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‘Despicable Me 4’ debuts with $122.6M as boom times return to the box office
Jul 07, 2024 2:02 pm - After a historically bad first half of the year, the box office is suddenly booming. "Despicable Me 4" led the way over the holiday weekend with $75 million in ticket sales Friday through Sunday and $122.6 million since opening on Wednesday, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Bearing witness to the death of Adolf Eichmann in ‘June Zero’
Jul 05, 2024 10:24 am - Jake Paltrow’s soul-searching “June Zero” starts in 1961 Israel with reports that Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann has been sentenced to death. Paltrow makes his own case that history is built of small, individual actions that tend to be overlooked.
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Extremely Gothic: Mia Goth kills it as a porn star heroine in meta slasher trilogy finale ‘MaXXXine’Jul 03, 2024 9:04 am - The final chapter in Ti West’s exuberantly meta slasher trilogy — along with “X” and “Pearl” — “MaXXXine” cements Mia Goth’s reputation as the Jennifer Jason Leigh of the 21st century. That’s no small compliment.
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Eddie Murphy returns to Beverly Hills, which is good enough for everyone
Jul 03, 2024 8:45 am - Judge Reinhold is in a truck barreling down the highway chased by angry cops when he turns to Eddie Murphy at the wheel and says something we're all feeling, “God, I missed you, Axel.” We all did. And now Netflix has brought him back in “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.”
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Emma Roberts talks ‘Space Cadet,’ her love of books, ‘Tell Me Lies’ and Kim Kardashian
Jul 03, 2024 8:40 am - Known for darker roles in Ryan Murphy's "American Horror Story" franchise, Emma Roberts relished a change in tone for her new rom-com "Space Cadet," which debuts July 4 on Prime Video.
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More Minion mayhem saves ‘Despicable Me 4’
Jul 02, 2024 5:30 am - Should a review of a “Despicable Me” movie be a thoughtful analysis or just a list of the funny stuff the Minions do in it? In “Despicable Me 4,” the Minions continue to evolve even if the movies don’t.
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What to stream this week: Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills, Emma Roberts in space, Zach Bryan in bars
Jul 01, 2024 5:30 am - Eddie Murphy reprising his role as Axel Foley in “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” and country music star Zach Bryan releasing a new studio album are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘A Quiet Place’ prequel box office speaks volumes as Costner’s Western gets a bumpy start
Jun 30, 2024 12:51 pm - “A Quiet Place: Day One” is making noise at the box office. The prequel earned an estimated $53 million in its first weekend in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Steve Van Zandt gets rock star treatment in new documentary
Jun 28, 2024 7:38 am - Perhaps it should be no surprise that Steve Van Zandt, 73, had to be coaxed into participating in a documentary about his remarkable life and career. The result is “Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple” — which airs on HBO and streams on Max
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In ‘Janet Planet,’ Julianne Nicholson is a mom spinning out of control
Jun 27, 2024 4:09 pm - Set in a bohemian enclave of Massachusetts during the summer of 1991, “Janet Planet” is a whisper of a movie about a single mother named Janet (Julianne Nicholson), a people pleaser who shifts personalities to suit her lovers and friends, and Janet’s guarded 11-year-old daughter, Lacy (Zoe Ziegler), who is obliged to push the interlopers out.