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Kit Harington leans into playing a bad guy in 'Blood for Dust'

Apr. 19, 2024 13:15 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Kit Harington jumped at the chance to sport what he calls a “proper porn ‘stache" to play a drug-running killer in “Blood for Dust.” The “Game of Thrones” actor — who confirmed a Jon Snow-centered sequel is on ice — stars in the new film alongside...

What to stream this weekend: Conan O’Brien travels, 'Migration' soars and Taylor Swift reigns

Apr. 19, 2024 00:14 AM EDT

Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver” landing on Netflix and Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” album are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as...

Critic's Notebook: 'Civil War' and the elusiveness of the of-the-moment movie

Apr. 18, 2024 16:34 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The movies are good at resurrecting the past and imagining the future, but pinning down the present can be tricky. Movies take a long time to make. Once you’ve gone from idea to script to production to edit and, finally, to audiences, several years might have passed. ...

Long-lost first model of the USS Enterprise from 'Star Trek' boldly goes home after twisting voyage

Apr. 18, 2024 13:09 PM EDT

DALLAS (AP) — The first model of the USS Enterprise — used in the opening credits of the original “Star Trek” television series — has boldly gone back home, returning to creator Gene Roddenberry's son decades after it went missing. The model's disappearance sometime in the...

Movie Review: A heist movie that gleefully collides with a monster movie in 'Abigail'

Apr. 18, 2024 10:52 AM EDT

If you always thought your garden-variety heist movies could do with a bit more blood-sucking vampire, have we got a flick for you. “Abigail,” featuring a 12-year-old tutu-wearing member of the undead, is way better than it should be, a gleeful genre-smashing romp through puddles...

After 40 years in Park City, Sundance exploring options for 2027 film festival and beyond

Apr. 17, 2024 22:39 PM EDT

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The Sundance Film Festival may not always call Park City, Utah, home. The Sundance Institute has started to explore the possibility of other U.S. locations to host the independent film festival starting in 2027, the organization said Wednesday. The 2025 and...

Movie Review: 'Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' amps up a true-tale WWII heist

Apr. 17, 2024 17:53 PM EDT

The latest Guy Ritchie flick “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” has a spine of true story to it, even if it does all it can to amplify a long-declassified World War II tale with enough dead Nazis to make “Inglourious Basterds” blush. The result is a jauntily entertaining...

Movie Review: A lyrical portrait of childhood in Cabrini-Green with ‘We Grown Now’

Apr. 17, 2024 17:09 PM EDT

Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama “We Grown Now.” It’s an evocative memory piece, wistful and honest, and a different kind of portrait of a very infamous place: Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing development. ...

'Civil War' might be the year's most explosive movie. Alex Garland thinks it's just reporting

Apr. 17, 2024 14:32 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Garland’s films have vividly conjured a virus-caused pandemic (2002's “28 Days Later”), an uncontrollable artificial intelligence (2014’s “Ex Machina”) and, in his latest, “Civil War,” a near-future America in the throes of all-out warfare. Most...

Seinfeld's upcoming Netflix movie about Pop-Tarts to be featured in IndyCar race at Long Beach

Apr. 17, 2024 09:15 AM EDT

Jerry Seinfeld's upcoming Netflix comedy will be featured during this weekend's IndyCar race at Long Beach as rookie Linus Lundqvist will drive a car painted to look like a Pop-Tart in recognition of the movie “Unfrosted.” Chip Ganassi Racing's No. 8 will be painted in the...