Film and TV

The festival runs from Dec. 2-11 with three programs of “Made in Alaska” short films and a pair of feature films.

During his shows, the sledgehammer-wielding Gallagher might send mayonnaise, mustard, honey, chocolate syrup, grapes, olives, cottage cheese and eggs flying into the audience.

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” was originally slated to be a clash of kings. Boseman’s death turned it into a film about mourning and succession.

Luke Combs was crowned entertainer of the year at Wednesday’s Country Music Association Awards, the second year in a row that he’s taken home the night’s top honor.

Powell died of cardiac arrest Oct. 26 at her home in upstate New York. Powell’s 2005 book “Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen” became a hit, Nora Ephron-directed film.

His wry Southern drawl and versatility made him a comedy and drama standout on TV series including “Will & Grace” and “American Horror Story.”

Anthony Rapp, 50, and Spacey, 63, each testified over several days at the three-week trial over an alleged encounter in 1986 when Rapp was 14.

The host of CBS’ “The Late Late Show” was banned from Balthazar restaurant after he reportedly apologized for being what the restaurant’s owner described as “the most abusive customer.”

Mamie Till-Mobley’s courageous journey to the Deep South to testify in the murder trial for her son’s killing is captured in the new film “Till.”

“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, who decades ago had said Coltrane was her first choice to play Hagrid, tweeted Friday that he was “an incredible talent, a complete one off.”

Lansbury was a scene-stealing British actress who also kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy.”

Lingít playwright Vera Starbard, of the PBS children’s show “Molly of Denali,” and Inupiat filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, known for his 2011 film “On the Ice,” are two of the writers involved in the new series on ABC and Hulu.

The fictional newsroom in “Alaska Daily” bears some similarities to the real-life Anchorage Daily News. Here’s a rundown of the new series on ABC and Hulu.

Hilary Swank plays a New York reporter who moves to Anchorage to work at a local newspaper in ABC’s new drama, from ‘Spotlight’s’ Tom McCarthy.

Hilary Swank is a disgraced scribe trying to make a comeback in this ABC series.

The show threads the needle between episodic storytelling and servicing a longer, serialized arc that will presumably span the season.

Swank, 48, just finished filming the fifth episode of the series, which debuts Thursday evening on ABC.

Baldwin has said the gun went off accidentally and that he did not pull the trigger. But a recent FBI forensic report found the weapon could not not have fired unless the trigger was pulled.

The series, about a fictional newsroom in Anchorage, debuts Oct. 6 on ABC and will be streaming on Hulu.

REVIEW: Filmmaker Ken Burns’ latest documentary series, ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust,’ draws parallels to the recent rise in American nationalism and antisemitism.

The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards returned to Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater for the first time since 2019 on Monday, upended for three years by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Succession” and “Ted Lasso” topped the Emmy Awards on Monday, in a ceremony that touted the power of TV and extended honors to “Squid Game” and winners who delivered messages of empowerment.

“Bros,” one of the standout films of this fall movie season, is the first gay rom-com from a major studio, and the first studio film of any genre both written by and starring an openly gay man. The cast is almost entirely LGBTQ.