Hollywood will honor its best and brightest March 4, with the added pomp of this being the 90th Academy Awards. Yet whatever claims to the moral high ground industry figures might like to make aren't helped by this weekend's release of "Death Wish," a remake of the 1974 revenge fantasy, right before its biggest night.
A Russian accent is only one of the challenges Jennifer Lawrence must struggle to overcome in "Red Sparrow," a slick if slightly overstuffed spy thriller, plucked from a long line of cinematic femme fatales. The movie gets a classy lift from its supporting cast, but -- serving primarily as a handsome showcase for its star -- doesn't entirely take off.
In a throwback to Fox's tabloid past, the network has scheduled a two-hour special, "O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession?," in what appears to be a transparent move to undermine the premiere of "American Idol" on ABC.
With some exceptions, this year's Oscar-nominated films aren't exactly lighthearted. But that doesn't mean Oscar hopefuls don't enjoy kicking back with familiar favorites every now and then.
An unusual level of suspense will surround the Oscars' grand prize, best picture, when the envelope (hopefully the right one this time) is opened Sunday. The "why" of that can be attributed to various factors, but one of them is the revised makeup of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, triggered by the #OscarsSoWhite campaign.
Six years after Whitney Houston's death, her ex-husband says he doesn't think drugs played a part in the superstar's accidental drowning, which a coroner ruled also owed in part to the effects of "cocaine use."
A special "Frontline" presentation timed to the Oscars, "Weinstein" is a methodical tick-tock of the sexual-harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, and most significantly, how and why they were allowed to go unchecked for so long. Yet while essentially recapping the details, the hour falls short in providing further clarity to the key question: What did Hollywood, collectively, know, and when did it know it?
Paramount Network has postponed the scheduled premiere of "Heathers," a TV series based on the hit 1988 movie, citing sensitivity to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence has added her voice to the #MeToo debate, saying she had been treated "in a way that I think now we would call abusive."
