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What to stream: Coldplay, an unhinged Charlie Puth, 'Salem’s Lot,' Sarah Paulson and NHL 25
Coldplay's 10th studio album and the American Music Awards celebrating their 50th anniversary are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment...
In time for Oct. 7 anniversary, a new film documents Hamas' attack on Israel music festival
NEW YORK (AP) — Horror came with sunrise following an all-night rave near the Gaza border on Oct. 7, 2023, the Hamas attack presaged by rockets that some young people mistakenly thought were fireworks. A new documentary shows the attack unfold over the next hours in...
Movie Review: 'Folie à Deux' reckons with 'The Joker'
Let's put on a happy face, at least to start, for “Joker: Folie à Deux.” If there's one undeniably compelling thing about both Todd Phillips' divisive 2019 original and his new follow-up, it's that these movies are best when they dance. The first movie might have been a muddled...
A new initiative will allow UK deaf audiences to see captioned films before general release
LONDON (AP) — For once, deaf audiences are being prioritized at U.K. cinemas. Paramount Pictures UK will be showing their movies with captions the day before general release, meaning deaf and hard of hearing cinemagoers across the country will be able to watch them first. ...
Saoirse Ronan felt happy and settled. That's why she could play an alcoholic in 'The Outrun'
The thing about birthing a lamb on camera is you only get one take. Saoirse Ronan had been getting up at dawn to observe local farmers in Orkney in action, soaking in as much as she could. But soon it was her turn. Not only would she have a life in her hands: She had to look like...
Movie Review: Helen Mirren tells a story of evil and hope during WWII in ‘White Bird’
It’s never a bad time for stories celebrating acts of kindness, but the current news cycle makes it ever so more appreciated. In the new film “White Bird,” in theaters Friday, the act is quite significant: A family in Nazi-occupied France shelters a young Jewish girl, whose friends and family...
Jonathan Majors' 'Magazine Dreams' lands theatrical release for early 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — The Jonathan Majors -starring bodybuilder drama “Magazine Dreams" has been acquired for theatrical release after it was dropped following Majors' conviction for assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Briarcliff Entertainment has picked up distribution rights to the film,...
Movie Review: A transcendent Saoirse Ronan illuminates true-life addiction drama ‘The Outrun’
At some point during “The Outrun,” it occurred to me that watching Saoirse Ronan act is a bit like looking into a magnifying glass: Everything somehow feels a bit clearer, sharper, more precise. This singular actor gives one of her finest performances in a two-hour study of...
Daniel Day-Lewis ends acting retirement for a movie directed by his son
NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. The project was announced Tuesday by Focus Features and Plan B, who are partnering on “Anemone.” The film, Ronan Day-Lewis'...
Ken Page, who starred in 'Cats' on Broadway and voiced Oogie Boogie, dies at 70
NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Page, a stage and screen actor who starred alongside Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls,” introduced Broadway audiences to Old Deuteronomy in “Cats” and scared generations of kids as the voice of Oogie Boogie, the villain of the 1993 animated holiday film ”The Nightmare Before...
