Entertainment - Saturday, March 14, 2026

Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas have released their heartwarming yet uneven cinematic duet with Power Ballad, which premiered Saturday at SXSW. In the John Carney-helmed film, which Carney co-wrote with star Peter McDonald, Rick (Rudd) is a wedding band frontman living in the quaint, picturesque setting of Ireland, where he settled down with a wife […]

Between exploring new interests, engaging with new styles and making new friends, our young years are a searching pursuit of identity, and thus one of cinema’s enduring topics. That quest is very much at the heart of director Katie Aselton’s lovely coming-of-age drama “Their Town,” a familiar yet cozily comforting film about the soulful kinships […]

“It’s changed my whole personality,” the comedian said of getting a driver’s license. They are now on a 37-city tour, though someone else is driving.

John Alford, a British actor with a checkered history with the law, has died at the age of 54. Alford, who starred in BBC kids soap Grange Hill and ITV fireman drama London’s Burning, died in prison after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting two teenage girls. He reverted back to his birthname John […]

In 2005, a San Jose woman found a human finger in her Wendy’s chili. Well, she claimed to. When it was discovered that she planted the finger in the bowl herself for financial gain, she was sentenced to nine years in prison for the scam that cost the fast-food chain millions. Edd Benda and Stephen […]

Shorter seasons have reshaped the television landscape, controversially so. A trio of NBCUniversal development executives has mixed opinions. Financially, a longer season is a better model, said Vivian Cannon, EVP, Drama Development, Universal Television. “If you’re doing eight episodes, that means that everything you’re putting into your budget per episode is divided by eight, like […]

Online wagering is all the rage. But the crowdsourced data generally doesn’t interest experts who have built a brand predicting Academy Awards races.

Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas rocked SXSW with “Power Ballad,” the latest music-themed comedy film from “Once” and “Sing Street” director John Carney. The movie follows Rick Power (Rudd), a wedding band singer who stumbles into a late-night jam session with former boy band star Danny (Jonas) and reignites his passion for songwriting. But Danny […]

Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan once pondered that the extras who make up the hive mind on the dystopian future show should be naked. In addition, he regaled that a top Sony TV executive wasn’t a fan early on of his multi-Emmy winning Breaking Bad, which the studio ultimately produced. Such stories were part of a […]

A documentary about citizen journalism in the digital age, Jennifer Holness and Sidney Fussell’s “#WhileBlack” uses, as its foundation, stories of police violence from the last decade — namely, the murders of Black civilians Philando Castle and George Floyd — but turns them into a scattered saga about too many disparate topics. Despite an occasional […]