For Better Or For Worse
- By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer
“Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho has been selected as jury president of the 78th Venice International Film Festival, organizers said Friday. The Oscar-winner will preside over seven jurors to hand out the festival’s top awards, including the prestigious Golden Lion. He’ll be the first South …
- Chris Hewitt Star Tribune (TNS)
Whatever its flaws, "Promising Young Woman" really goes for it, and that makes it thrilling to watch.
- Chris Hewitt Star Tribune (TNS)
Julie Dash launched her career with the widely acclaimed "Daughters of the Dust" in 1991 and has only made one movie since. Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep" made a huge splash in 1978 but he has struggled to complete a handful of features since then.
- Neal Justin Star Tribune (TNS)
The Avengers have traveled to the corners of the universe. But two members face their most daunting challenge yet when they find themselves grounded in sitcomland.
- C. Isaiah Smalls II The Miami Herald (TNS)
MIAMI — To successfully bring a stage play to the silver screen, the filmmaker must overcome the limitations of confined set. Denzel Washington did it with "Fences." Sidney Lumet with "The Wiz." Barry Jenkins with "Moonlight."
- Karla Peterson The San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS)
True crime has paid big dividends for Netflix. From "Making a Murderer" to "The Keepers," "The Staircase" and "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness," the streaming service has been a steady provider of white-knuckle programming for viewers who can't get enough of grisly crime scene photos…
- August Brown Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Days after attending a rally that led to a deadly right-wing insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the LA indie musician Ariel Pink tried to defend his actions on Fox News host Tucker Carlson's show on Thursday.
- Gina Salamone New York Daily News (TNS)
He was born in the USA and now he’s going to honor it.
- Joshua Axelrod Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (TNS)
PITTSBURGH — Joanne Rogers was so much more than just Fred Rogers' adoring wife.
- Justin Chang Los Angeles Times (TNS)
Among the many archival materials excerpted in Sam Pollard's "MLK/FBI" is a 1964 televised interview with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., conducted by journalist Gay Pauley. With a superior smirk and galling bad faith, Pauley asks King if his code of nonviolent resistance has nonetheless pr…
- By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — A major memorial honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is moving forward in Boston, where they met and studied in the 1950s.
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta rapper YFN Lucci is accused of being the driver in a gang-related drive-by shooting that left one man dead and another wounded, authorities said.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Elvis Presley's Graceland is now offering online tours for fans around the world, including those who can't travel to the Tennessee tourist attraction during the coronavirus pandemic.
The following are Friday's television listings for the local PBS stations:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Mark Richman, a character actor who appeared in hundreds of television episodes and had recurring roles on “Three's Company" and “Beverly Hills 90210," has died. He was 93.
NEW YORK (AP) — A bound edition of materials about President Donald Trump's second impeachment will feature a foreword from an estranged associate — former Trump attorney Michael Cohen.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Media mogul Oprah Winfrey will have a biographical documentary released on Apple TV+.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Joanne Rogers, the widow of Fred Rogers and an accomplished concert pianist, has died. She was 92.
- By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — At first, viewed from a distance, it was a rally or protest. Then it became an assault, a riot, an insurrection, domestic terrorism or even a coup attempt. The language used by the American media to describe last week's Capitol siege proves one thing whatever your perspective…
- Julia Barajas Los Angeles Times (TNS)
It took long enough, but there might be no better year to embark on the project than apocalyptic 2021: Don DeLillo's cool, tragicomic and catastrophic novel "White Noise" will become a movie. And Noah Baumbach, master of domestic catastrophe, will direct it, with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig…
- Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times (TNS)
The South By Southwest Film Festival is pulling back the curtain on programming for its first virtual edition, including the world premiere of opening night headliner "Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil." Directed by Michael D. Ratner, the YouTube Originals docuseries takes a look at the po…
- Peter Sblendorio New York Daily News (TNS)
Movie fans won’t have to travel far to see “Nomadland.”