April 14, 2024, 6:05am Entertainment
The hazards of remaking a beloved film are well known. While the 1991 comedy “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead,” starring Christina Applegate, didn’t exactly thrill critics 30 years ago, it’s become a cult classic, especially for elder millennials who grew up on the movie. It’s the ideal text for… Read story
April 14, 2024, 6:00am Business
In November 2022, Isimeme Udu uploaded the song that changed her life. The singer, who performs as Hemlocke Springs, was stressing about her medical studies at Dartmouth when she dropped her synth-pop track “Girlfriend” onto TikTok. Its lo-fi élan immediately found an audience. Read story
April 14, 2024, 6:00am Entertainment
Much like America itself, writer-director Alex Garland’s “Civil War” is a precarious sort of success almost in spite of itself, and despite being its own worst storytelling enemy. How? How can those circumstances lead to a movie still worth seeing? Well, see it and find out. Or find out if… Read story
April 14, 2024, 5:32am Entertainment
A University of Miami dean’s own homework assignment last year — learn all you can about Taylor Swift’s songs as fast as you can — has led to one of the coming fall semester’s hottest classes on the Coral Gables campus. Read story
April 13, 2024, 6:04am Entertainment
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. Read story
April 13, 2024, 6:04am Entertainment
The buzzy upcoming Bruce Springsteen film “Deliver Me From Nowhere” officially has its lead: Jeremy Allen White. The biopic, based on the book of the same title by Warren Zanes, follows the making of Springsteen’s 1982 iconic solo album, “Nebraska.” Over the weekend, it was the subject of a bidding… Read story
April 13, 2024, 6:04am Entertainment
The official date has been set for Pat Sajak’s final turn on “Wheel of Fortune.” Read story
April 13, 2024, 6:01am Entertainment
When people recognize veteran journalist Miles O’Brien from his days covering aviation for CNN, they often thank him for his coverage of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Read story
April 13, 2024, 5:59am Entertainment
You have questions. I have some answers. Read story
April 13, 2024, 5:45am Entertainment
It’s Leg Day for Jakob Nowell, who’s fueling up for his workout on a recent afternoon with a late breakfast at a Long Beach diner just down the street from his gym. Read story
