Category Archives: Entertainment

‘Bachelor’ host Chris Harrison apologizes after being criticized for defending racist behavior

Harrison spoke out on behalf of Rachael Kirkconnell, who was reportedly photographed at an antebellum plantation-themed fraternity formal in 2018. Kirkconnell has not yet commented on the photos. Earlier this week Harrison told “Extra” correspondent and former star of “The Bachelorette,” Rachel Lindsay, that the pictures were a long time ago and spoke out against […]

‘Clarice’ review: ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ becomes a pretty flavorless dish in new CBS series

Thirty years removed from the movie’s Oscar-winning release, the series picks up a year after those events (and yes, Thomas Harris’ novel), finding Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) working as a junior FBI agent with an inordinately high profile. Her participation in the Buffalo Bill case and interaction with Hannibal Lecter has earned her the tabloid […]

‘Minari’ review: Steven Yeun stars in a movie that explores one family’s American dream

The title refers to a particularly durable crop, which is indicative of the resilience of this family, which has come to rural Arkansas seeking a better life. The father (“The Walking Dead’s” Steven Yeun) has big dreams, having essentially bet everything on acquiring a mobile home and farming the adjacent land. He and his wife […]

Lucasfilm fires ‘The Mandalorian’ star Gina Carano after offensive social media posts

Lucasfilm fired Carano Wednesday, calling the social media posts she made that day “abhorrent.” “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement to Variety. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and […]

‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ review

Kaluuya plays Fred Hampton, a minor character in “Chicago 7” who headed the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers, and — like Martin Luther King Jr. — drew special attention from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (Martin Sheen), portrayed as determined to strangle the movement by any means necessary. Toward that end, an ambitious younger […]

'The Mauritanian' is an earnest but uninspired look at one Guantanamo ordeal

The sobering history of detentions at Guantanamo Bay has already been well documented, yielding a so-so movie last year in “The Report.” “The Mauritanian” thus feels like an earnest but uninspired movie that only marginally advances the ball, assembling a stellar cast in the service of one detainee’s terrible ordeal, while its marquee stars largely […]

'Me You Madness' is Louise Linton's stab at whatever's beyond a vanity project

As the wife of Trump administration Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Louise Linton seems to understand there’s no separating the art from the artist, so her new movie, “Me You Madness,” doesn’t try. Instead, this whatever’s-beyond-vanity project that she wrote, directed, produced and stars in winks at the camera so often you begin to fear for […]

‘Ruth – Justice Ginsburg In Her Own Words’ review: RBG gets the last word in new documentary

Perhaps the most striking image is a shot of Ginsburg’s 1956 law-school class, zeroing in on her surrounded by male peers. At that point, she tells a visiting class, a legal career “seemed to me an area in which women were not yet wanted.” Later, she addresses the question of whether she dreamed of being […]

Abraham Lincoln’s life story has a new voice: Sterling K. Brown

“I was just trying to get more information. He’s always been a fascinating character to me,” he told CNN. “He’s probably more quoted than any other president by other presidents.” The “This Is Us” star narrates the six-part series, which “takes a holistic approach to the remarkable and unexpected story of Abraham Lincoln by delving […]