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What to Stream: Charli xcx, ‘The Dink,’ ‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe’ and ’72 Hours’
Charli xcx’s new album and a pickleball movie starring Jake Johnson are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: the “Big Bang Theory” spin-off “Stuart Fails to Save the […]
Toronto International Film Festival sets lineup with films by Chris Rock, Peter Farrelly
NEW YORK | The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled the bulk of the lineup to its 51st edition on Monday, setting world premieres for Chris Rock’s drama “Misty Green” and Peter Farrelly’s Sylvester Stallone film “I Play Rocky.” TIFF, North America’s largest film festival, annually hosts some of the fall’s most anticipated titles. On Monday, […]
Shakira, Madonna and many Muppets take the World Cup stage, along with BTS and Bieber
Madonna, Justin Bieber, BTS and Shakira each brought a bit of one of their hits to the World Cup’s first halftime show in a whirlwind performance Sunday that also squeezed in Burna Boy, Ted Lasso and many Muppets. The show at what’s otherwise known as MetLife Stadium, outside New York, was an attempt to bring […]
Guns shaped America. Dirty Harry’s .44 Magnum is king
There are as many handguns in the U.S. as there are adults. Perhaps none is more iconic than the .44 Magnum revolver. “The most powerful handgun in the world,” Clint Eastwood says with a mix of pleasure and malice as detective “Dirty Harry” takes aim at a bank robber. The 1971 movie made the hefty […]
10 songs to get hyped for the World Cup final
NEW YORK | Regardless of World Cup allegiances, there is one thing everyone can agree on: There’s nothing better than a themed playlist to get pumped for Sunday’s big match. The Associated Press has you covered there. Whether you’re hoping Argentina will become the first repeat champion since Brazil in 1958 and 1962, or that […]
Brenda Fricker, the first Irish actress to win an Oscar for ‘My Left Foot,’ dies at 81
LONDON | Brenda Fricker, who won an Academy Award for her role as Bridget Fagan Brown in the 1989 film “My Left Foot,” has died. She was 81. The Irish character actor died Thursday night in Dublin after a period of ill health, her agent, Phil Belfield said in a statement. Fricker became the first […]
Stacks and stacks of wax packs, now obsolete, summon the joy of baseball-card childhoods
NEW YORK | The anticipation. The chase. The powdery, sugar-coated board of gum! For generations of baseball card fans, there was nothing like scrounging up some change and sprinting to the store to buy a wax pack. Some tore the slightly tacky paper wrapper open and flipped through the cards in an insatiable instant (hence […]
Movie Review: In Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ an ancient epic is reborn
Getting home, and turning back the clock, has long been at the root of Christopher Nolan’s films. The astronauts of “Interstellar” painstakingly lose 23 years in space travel, almost the same length of time Odysseus is away from home in “The Odyssey”: a decade fighting the Trojan War, a decade trying to return to Ithaca. […]
Ava DuVernay announces ’14th’ documentary on birthright amendment contested by Trump
NEW YORK | Ava DuVernay announced Thursday that she has made a documentary for Netflix on the 14th Amendment, which gave liberty and rights to formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, and which has come under legal attack from President Donald Trump. Netflix said Thursday that it will release “14th” later this year. The […]
Tom Cruise’s love for ‘Amores Perros’ led him to ‘Digger’
BURBANK, Calif. | Tom Cruise still remembers being in awe of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s feature directorial debut “Amores Perros,” which took home the Academy Award for best international feature film in 2001. “What a brilliant film. It was amazing,” Cruise told journalists at a recent press event. “Every aspect of that film was very thought […]