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‘Star Wars’ has long been a franchise fixated on the Skywalker men. The latest entry in the canon finds hope, and emotional resonance, in Leia Organa.
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‘Lightyear’ features the first queer Pixar character shown kissing her wife on screen. The filmmakers explain how she was key to the the movie.
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Honorary Oscars for Michael J. Fox, Diane Warren, Peter Weir and Euzhan Palcy, plus more love for ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’
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Historical figures aren’t new for Gillian Anderson — who also plays Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown” and Catherine’s terrible mother in “The Great.”
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The 1-inch-tall shell with the googly eye, the bright-colored tennis shoes and the voice of Jenny Slate now has his own A24 full-length feature.
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Charli D’Amelio has been dethroned on TikTok by Khaby Lame, a Senegalese comic whose wordless parodies have attracted nearly 144 million followers.
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Amber Heard’s and Johnny Depp’s teams convened Friday to discuss a settlement, but the legal battle continues as Heard seeks to appeal the verdict.
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After the Supreme Court ruled Friday to overturn Roe vs. Wade, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addressed it through poetry. It’s not the first time.
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Viola Davis, Jessica Biel, Michelle Obama, Ariana DeBose and other celebrities and politicians react to the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade on Friday.
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An appropriately creepy Ethan Hawke leads an uneven and incredibly gruesome ’70s-set kidnapping thriller.
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Daily Harvest said Thursday that it is conducting a ‘root cause investigation’ in conjunction with the FDA. But some customers feel left in the dark.
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Baz Luhrmann’s erotically charged biopic “Elvis” doesn’t just reinvigorate the Presley myth, it resurrects the King and makes him relevant again.
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‘Apples,’ a fantastical Greek drama about a pandemic that causes amnesia, directed by Christos Nikou.
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Oscar winner Sean Penn was among those attending the House select committee’s hearings on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Former ‘Empire’ star Jussie Smollett says his family confiscated his phone to protect him from seeing the backlash to his allegedly staged hate crime.
