Think of "Ticket to Paradise" like a postcard of beautiful people having fun in a beautiful place and you'll get along just fine. Giving it much more thought than that won't help this rom-com vehicle for George Clooney and Julia Roberts, although the "com" part proves a trifle deficient in a movie that's significantly better when it's sweet than salty.
As Swifties around the world countdown to midnight and the release of Taylor Swift's tenth album "Midnights," she's tried to keep her fans happy by dropping a few hints about her new music in recent days.
Some pop culture moments, as they age, feel more and more like bouts of collective madness. Why did everyone hate Anne Hathaway all of those years ago? Around 2013, despite winning a slew of awards for her role in "Les Miserables," it seemed the actress couldn't catch a break. Despite a lack of scandal or outright offensive behavior, she was "the star we love to loathe," " the bad kind of theater kid," "the kind of person who inexplicably bugs people."
Certain phrases don't translate from English into Korean. "Film noir" and "the male gaze" are two of them. Sat with his interpreter in a hotel suite in one of London's more upmarket junket venues, director Park Chan-wook says them frequently, two islands of English in a sea of Korean, part of a long answer about how "Decision To Leave," his latest film, engages with both.
Producer Ryan Murphy has premiered three series in roughly a month, so a degree of overlap is perhaps understandable. Even so, the new season of his long-running FX franchise, this one dubbed "American Horror Story: NYC," feels like a companion in its central themes to "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story," which premiered last month on Netflix.
A lot has changed about the world in the last 20 years, but Christina Aguilera still thinks you're beautiful, despite what social media sometimes tells us.
Two powerful documentaries explore different aspects of Black history this week, in each case shedding light on misrepresented or under-covered chapters. Presented by Barack Obama's company under its Netflix deal, "Descendant" examines the discovery of a long-sunk ship that brought enslaved Africans to Alabama, while "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" reclaims a figure whose legacy was too often characterized as the product of tired feet.
Although immersed in fantasy, "The School for Good and Evil" gets lost in a nether realm somewhere between Disney Channel fare like "Descendants" and more epic theatricals like Harry Potter. The latest attempt to rewrite fairy tales thus squanders plenty of big-name assets, a popular book series and Netflix's loot on what plays like a remedial course in franchise building.
