Dennis The Menace
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The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of May 29:
- Alexandra Del Rosario - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Chris Hemsworth dedicated more than a quarter of his life to playing Thor for Marvel. Naturally, taking on the Mjölnir-wielding Norse god grew stale.
- Mikael Wood - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
LOS ANGELES — Dressed in a baggy green flight suit, his fingernails painted black, Seal squared himself behind a microphone in a Van Nuys rehearsal studio and bobbed his signature bald head as his five-person band wound its way through the intro of his song "Fast Changes."
- Brooke Cain - The Charlotte Observer (TNS)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A new four-part true-crime documentary premiering this week on HBO (and streaming on MAX) goes beyond the typical genre offering.
- Chris Jones - Chicago Tribune (TNS)
NEW YORK — Just as New York’s theater world sashays from one end-of-season party to another, bars open at every turn, comes a gorgeously and expressionistically scored new musical from Adam Guettel, an often melancholic composer known as much for the years that flow between his shows as from…
- Charles McNulty - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Theater audiences have been getting attacked from all sides since venues reopened.
- Mark Meszoros - The News-Herald (Willoughby, Ohio) (TNS)
If it’s not one multiverse, it’s another.
- Ginny Greene - Star Tribune (TNS)
Books in brief
- Mary Carole McCauley - Baltimore Sun (TNS)
Summer is the season for travel — and what better or cheaper way to embark on a journey than by cracking open a good book? Every novel or essay collection is its own world, with a unique geography and climate, customs and language, and its own physical laws.
- Kathleen Rooney - Star Tribune (TNS)
FICTION: Dorothy Tse's novel is a beautifully strange critique of contemporary Hong Kong.
- Laurie Hertzel - Star Tribune (TNS)
NONFICTION: A poet rescues a young magpie chick, which proceeds to take over her life.
- Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune (TNS)
Maureen Ryan can’t deny it, as she writes in her first book: “Burn It Down: Power, Complicity and a Call for Change in Hollywood.” For much of her life, the former Chicago Tribune and Variety critic and reporter couldn’t get enough of the grisly, salacious show-business lore spawned by the t…
- Chris Hewitt - Star Tribune (TNS)
Don't miss
- Moira Macdonald - The Seattle Times (TNS)
"Haven" by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown, $17.99). Donoghue, whose elegant novels range from historical fiction ("The Wonder," "Frog Music") to contemporary ("Akin," "Room"), here goes ultra-historical with a tale of three Irishmen on a voyage of discovery in the year 600. A review in The Gua…
- Ellen Akins - Star Tribune (TNS)
FICTION: "Kairos" finds main character Katharina sifting through memorabilia, hunting for answers.
- Kevin Canfield - Star Tribune (TNS)
FICTION: Andre Dubus III's hero loses everything, then learns about atonement and compassion.
- Christine Brunkhorst - Star Tribune (TNS)
NONFICTION: A detailed, loving look at nature, just across the Minnesota border.
The following are Wednesday’s television listings for the local PBS stations:
- By JOCELYN NOVECK - AP National Writer
Françoise Gilot, a prolific painter who was nonetheless more famous for her turbulent relationship with Pablo Picasso — and for leaving him — died on Tuesday in Manhattan. She was 101. Gilot’s daughter, Aurelia Engel, told The Associated Press her mother had died at Mount Sinai West hospital after suffering both lung and heart problems. The French-born Gilot had long made her frustration clear that she would be best known for her relationship with Picasso, whom she met in 1943 at age 21, his junior by four decades. The union produced two children — Claude and Paloma Picasso — but unlike the other key women in Picasso’s life, Gilot eventually left.
- Christi Carras - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
The creator of "Succession" did not appreciate one potentially dangerous choice Jeremy Strong made while filming the series finale — even if it made sense dramaturgically to the actor.
- Nardine Saad - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer who became an overnight sensation while competing on "Britain's Got Talent," revealed Sunday that she had a stroke last year.
- By MARK KENNEDY - AP Entertainment Writer
One recent day, Broadway star Betsy Wolfe was up at 4 a.m. to perform on “Good Morning America.” Then there was a formal gala lunch and a few snuggle hours with her young daughter. Finally, as the sun set, her main job beckoned: A big new musical that needed her voice. Such is the life of a Tony nominee, something Wolfe has earned this season for the first time. She calls herself “gratefully exhausted.” Wolfe stars in “& Juliet” a musical which reimagines what would happen if “Romeo and Juliet” didn’t end so sadly and adds huge pop hits by the likes of Britney Spears and Katy Perry.
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A British police motorcyclist is facing a criminal investigation over the death of a woman who was struck in a collision with the officer’s vehicle, which was escorting Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh at the time. Helen Holland, 81, was struck at west London on May 10. She suffered serious injuries and died two weeks later. The Independent Office for Police Conduct said the constable was told they are under criminal investigation for causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving. The officer is also being investigated for potential gross misconduct. Following the crash, Holland’s son Martin told the BBC she died after sustaining “multiple broken bones."
- By JAKE COYLE - AP Film Writer
It took nearly five years and a crew of a thousand, but the second chapter of Christopher Miller and Phil Lord’s “Spider-Verse” film series has arrived. In “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” Lord and Miller set out not just to surpass the high bar of their 2018 original but upend big-studio animation and the more-of-the-same expectations of sequel-making. “Across the Spider-Verse” blew past expectations on opening weekend, debuting with $120.5 million, more than triple what “Into the Spider-Verse” launched with. What was once a quirky bit player in the hulking world of superhero movies has turned into a blockbuster in its own right.