Home Entertainment: X-Men, Charlie Brown, Murdoch and more
By Angela Dawson, Front Row Features
ARRIVING on Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD and DVD is the hit superhero action movie X-Men: Apocalypse. Oscar winner Jennifer...
Jim James shares the 6 albums that influenced him the most
FOR HIS second solo album, Eternally Even, My Morning Jacket (MJM) frontman Jim James eschews his band’s jammier tendencies and dives even deeper into...
Model student
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
The Neon Demon
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon provokes as many questions as it does responses: is...
Tippi Hedren accuses Hitchcock of sexual harassment in memoir
LOS ANGELES — Actress Tippi Hedren graphically chronicles in a new memoir incidents in which she says she was sexually assaulted and harassed by...
Black Mirror creator on how he (unknowingly) predicted the rise of Donald Trump
Television
Black Mirror
Netflix
BLACK MIRROR is back and ready to offer a fresh and terrifying insight into where society and technology is headed.
The third season of...
Big data reveals mixed authorship in 17 Shakespeare plays
LONDON — Seventeen plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written in collaboration with other playwrights, according to an edition of his works coming out...
Fast & furious
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Love and Friendship
Directed by Whit Stillman
I REMEMBER one night picking up a copy of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice -- waded...
Packed with extras
By Heather Turk
DVD Review
Beauty and the Beast
Blu-ray
Silver Anniversary Edition
A TALE as old as time gets the silver anniversary treatment, as Beauty and the Beast...
Reimagined MacGyver assembles team
Television
MacGyver
Thursdays, 9:45 p.m
AXN
HOLLYWOOD — The action series MacGyver, which made a problem-solving star of Richard Dean Anderson in the 1980s, gets a 21st century...
Classic buddy cop comedy Lethal Weapon hits small screen
Television
Lethal Weapon
Thursdays, 8:10 p.m.
Fox
HOLLYWOOD — Lethal Weapon famously starred Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as mismatched but likable cops in a series of lighthearted...
Writers’ privacy row erupts as Italy’s Ferrante unmasked
ROME — One of literature’s most talked-about mysteries appeared to have been cracked Monday with the unmasking of the identity of the Italian publishing...
Bad blood in the claws of literary execs
By Pola Esguerra del Monte
IN THE INK-STAINED manuscripts of the late Edgardo M. Reyes, the man who wrote the magazine serial-turned-novel-turned-award-winning-film Sa mga...