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ACTORS ON ACTORS | Tracy Morgan and Marcello Hernández have a bonkers conversation about 'SNL,' Eddie Murphy, colonoscopies and making babies.

Sixteen years after “The Social Network” chronicled the rise of Facebook, audiences are getting their first look at its highly anticipated follow-up. Sony Pictures…

Not only did Taylor Swift make a surprise appearance at the world premiere of “Toy Story 5” on Tuesday night in Los Angeles, but she also performed after the…

The Directors Guild of America has reached a tentative four-year deal with the major studios, wrapping up this year’s round of major labor negotiations with little drama…

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‘Doctor Who’ Shake-Up

This year's Christmas special is no longer going forward as Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf exit the sci-fi franchise.

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Steven Spielberg's invigorating chase thriller taps into the mania for alien conspiracy theory, but it never becomes a close encounter with wonder. It's closer to 'Alien Autopsy' with better lighting.
DISCLOSURE DAY, foreground, first four from left: Colman Domingo, Tommy Martinez, Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor; far right: Priyanka Kedia, 2026. © Universal Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection

The Wayans brothers' horror-spoof franchise is now riding shotgun on the commercial power of the 'Scream' series. The sixth 'Scary Movie' has a few choice gags, but mostly it's so meta it's meh.
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Nicholas Galitzine lends spark to a bloated Mattel nostalgia trip. It will raise chuckles from those with fond memories of He-Man, but after 140 minutes it feels time to put away childish things.
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Experimental horror comes out of the margins in Kane Parsons' YouTube-gone-A24 head trip. Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a furniture-store owner in a film that turns memes into a moody freakout.
Backrooms

Guy Ritchie delivers a perfect origin story for Sherlock Holmes.
Young Sherlock TV Show Review

The 'Yellowstone' spinoff turns the Taylor Sheridan franchise into a workman-like CBS procedural.
Luke Grimes and Logan Marshall Green in 'Marshals'

The HBO series is a perversely hilarious spin on an erotic thriller.
Jason Bateman, David Harbour, Linda Cardellini

Bruno Mars makes a leisure suit of a record, doubling down on Silk Sonic's hermetically sealed '70s revivalism.
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Brent Faiyaz uncorks an instant-vintage serving of sultry R&B.
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A$AP Rocky steps back into the arena, all the wiser, on his ambitious album.
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Jefferson Mays shines as a funny and frothing Salieri in a gorgeously mounted, essential revival.
'Amadeus' at the Pasadena Playhouse

Carrie Coon's gutting performance elevates this horror thriller.
Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood in "Bug"

Only nominally related to the Blumhouse horror franchise, the haunted-house show ditches hidden cameras for live scares.
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American Disco and R&B singer Donna Summer (born LaDonna Gaines, 1948 - 2012) performs onstage at the Poplar Creek Music Theater, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, July 12, 1983. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)

STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW - BROADWAY. (L-R) T.R. Knight as Victor Creel, Louis McCartney as Henry Creel, and Rosie Benton as Virginia Creel in Netflix’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow at Marquis Theatre on Broadway. Photo Cr. Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman/Netflix

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - APRIL 15: Chris Meledandri, CEO Of Illumination, speaks onstage during CinemaCon 2026 - Universal Pictures and Focus Features Invites You to a Special Presentation Featuring Footage from its Upcoming Slate at The Dolby Colosseum at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of Cinema United, on April 15, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images for CinemaCon)

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 03: Amelia Dimoldenberg attends the inaugural Variety "Power of Women: London" event at The Chancery Rosewood on June 03, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images)

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - APRIL 15: Chris Meledandri, CEO Of Illumination, speaks onstage during CinemaCon 2026 - Universal Pictures and Focus Features Invites You to a Special Presentation Featuring Footage from its Upcoming Slate at The Dolby Colosseum at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of Cinema United, on April 15, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images for CinemaCon)

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