As the wife of Trump administration Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Louise Linton seems to understand there's no separating the art from the artist, so her new movie, "Me You Madness," doesn't try. Instead, this whatever's-beyond-vanity project that she wrote, directed, produced and stars in winks at the camera so often you begin to fear for her eyelids as well as your own.
The sobering history of detentions at Guantanamo Bay has already been well documented, yielding a so-so movie last year in "The Report." "The Mauritanian" thus feels like an earnest but uninspired movie that only marginally advances the ball, assembling a stellar cast in the service of one detainee's terrible ordeal, while its marquee stars largely take a back seat to Tahar Rahim in the central role.
"Judas and the Black Messiah" recounts a fascinating fact-based story in somewhat disjointed way, as it oscillates between two key characters. Despite that imbalance the movie has plenty to recommend it -- beginning with Daniel Kaluuya's crackling performance -- while serving as kind of a companion to two other recent releases: "The Trial of the Chicago 7" and the documentary "MLK/FBI."
Following news of Bruce Springsteen's November arrest for suspicion of driving under the influence, a source close to the musician is sharing more information about the incident.
English actress Bella Ramsey, best known for her breakout role on "Game of Thrones" as the bold and fiery Lyanna Mormont, is set to star in HBO's newest venture "The Last of Us."
Gina Carano, who starred as the unassailable warrior Cara Dune in "The Mandalorian," won't appear in any future Star Wars projects after she shared offensive social media posts, including one that compared Nazi Germany to the current political landscape.
"Minari" is a deeply personal film, and quality that's evident in writer-director Lee Isaac Chung's reminiscence about his childhood. Focusing on a Korean immigrant family, the universal themes come through loud, clear and ultimately with considerable power, even if the movie's languid pace works against it.
"The Silence of the Lambs" characters can't seem to stop talking, certainly not in television, which has given us the 2013 series "Hannibal" and now "Clarice," which starts promisingly enough but quickly fizzles over subsequent episodes. After a credible set-up drawing upon its origins, the show looks like a standard CBS crime procedural, and risks becoming a pretty flavorless dish.
"Bachelor" host Chris Harrison is apologizing after defending a frontrunner on the current season of the show who has come under scrutiny for photos that have surfaced from her past on social media.
Bruce Springsteen was arrested in a national park in New Jersey in November on charges of driving under the influence, according to a spokeswoman for the Gateway National Recreational Area in Sandy Hook, NJ.
