‘American Star’ Review: Armed and Vacationing

But throughout his career Mr. Jewison was repeatedly drawn to more serious fare, in movies like “F.I.S.T.” (1978), a labor-union drama that starred Sylvester Stallone; “In Country” (1989), about the daughter of a Vietnam War casualty; and his last film, “The Statement” (2003), the story of a former Nazi collaborator, played by Michael Caine. Well…

The dancers of Compagnie Hervé Koubi spend a lot of time upside down. Inverted, they spin on one or both hands or on their heads, legs spiraling. Upright, they bound into the air, as if off trampolines, ball up their bodies and rapidly rotate in high-flying arcs. They toss one another even higher. This is…

A video game once ridiculed for putting machine guns into the hands of cute creatures, eerily similar to the ones in Pokémon, was downloaded by an enormous audience over the weekend. More than 300,000 players simultaneously logged on to the game, Palworld, when it was released in early access on Friday, momentarily causing servers to…

With 2024 underway and the presidential race in full swing, it was time for “Saturday Night Live” to get back to doing what it loves best: lampooning former President Donald J. Trump. In its first new broadcast of the year, hosted by Jacob Elordi and featuring the musical guest Reneé Rapp, “S.N.L.” kicked off with…

A sexual assault lawsuit filed against Gérard Depardieu by a French actress has been dropped because it was past the statute of limitations, prosecutors in Paris said on Monday, but the French actor is still under investigation in a separate case. In the lawsuit that was dropped, the actress Hélène Darras had accused Depardieu of…

After Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks spearheaded the epic 2001 World War II series “Band of Brothers,” Spielberg got some feedback from one of his most important critics. His father, Arnold, a World War II veteran who served in what was then called the United States Army Air Forces, liked the series. But he wanted…