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Tony Awards 2022 viewing guide

By Chloe Melas, CNN The Tony Awards will return to Radio City Music Hall on Sunday for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s Broadway’s biggest event of the year, celebrating the best theater on the Great White Way. “West Side Story” star and Oscar winner Ariana DeBose is host of the show and

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‘Mississippi Masala’ was released 30 years ago. Here’s how it still resonates with audiences today

By Leah Asmelash, CNN There’s a scene halfway through “Mississippi Masala,” where Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury are just talking. They’re both lying in their respective beds, a phone cradled to their ears. His hands fiddle with the bottom of his shirt, exposing a soft belly. Hers absentmindedly run through her hair; the camera pans

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‘Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey’ revisits Warren Jeffs’ FLDS sect through survivor stories

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN The glut of true-crime fare is such that streaming services essentially create “You might like” companions to what’s on their competitors. So viewers of Hulu’s “Under the Banner of Heaven” can now watch “Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey,” Netflix’s docuseries about Warren Jeffs’ polygamous sect, a well-covered story already that

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‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ combines old and new DNA in an XL-sized mediocrity

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN There’s something unfortunately symbolic about “Jurassic World: Dominion,” which combines old and new DNA from the near-three-decade-old franchise and generates a pretty mindless mess. The nostalgia factor gives the movie an initial jolt, and there are, of course, some dino-sized thrills, but not enough to lift this XL-sized mediocrity out

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‘Hustle’ drafts Adam Sandler for an NBA movie with a solid inside game

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Hustle” doesn’t score any points for originality, unless you’ve somehow missed all those sports movies about scouts or coaches finding astonishing talent in unlikely locales. Yet Adam Sandler’s latest Netflix film — produced with, among others, LeBron James — mostly works in following that familiar playbook, peppering its NBA-level action

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‘Joker’ director teases sequel

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Is that you “Joker: Folie à Deux?” Todd Phillips, who directed and co-wrote 2019’s “Joker” starring Joaquin Phoenix, has seemingly confirmed that a sequel is in the works. Phillips posted a photo on his verified Instagram account that looked to be a script titled “Joker: Folie à Deux” written by

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Al Roker explains how he lost 45 pounds

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Al Roker is sharing how he managed to drop 45 pounds in the past few months. The legendary weatherman shared on the “Today” show that he has been reducing carbs and walking. “Exercise, and not extreme exercise, we’re doing that 30-day walking challenge, that improves, I think, your mental health,”

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Paramount Studios sued over ‘Top Gun’ copyright

By Topher Gauk-Roger, CNN Paramount Studios is being sued for copyright infringement over “Top Gun” by the family of the author whose article inspired the 1986 film. In a complaint filed in California federal court Monday, the heirs to Ehud Yonay’s 1983 article, “Top Guns,” state the film distribution company did not reacquire the rights

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An ‘unburnable’ copy of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ sells for $130,000 at auction

Megan C. Hills Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” has often provoked controversy, facing book bans over the decades since its release in 1985. In an effort to raise awareness around increasing censorship and a surge in book-banning efforts in American schools, Atwood and publisher Penguin Random House released a single “unburnable” copy of the seminal

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Jada Pinkett Smith hopes Will Smith and Chris Rock ‘have an opportunity to heal, talk this out, and reconcile’

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Jada Pinkett Smith briefly addressed the Oscars slap incident on Wednesday’s episode of “Red Table Talk.” Pinkett Smith’s husband, Will Smith, took to the stage at the Academy Awards in March and slapped presenter Chris Rock after he made a joke about Pinkett Smith’s close-cropped haircut. The actress suffers from

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CNN to broadcast live Juneteenth concert featuring, Khalid, Chaka Khan, Jill Scott, The Roots, Mickey Guyton, Ne-Yo and other Black artists

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN A slate of Black artists and musicians are set to take the stage at the Hollywood Bowl on June 19 for an inaugural Juneteenth concert that will be broadcast live on CNN. The “Juneteenth: A Global Celebration for Freedom,” produced by creators Shawn Gee of Live Nation Urban and Jesse

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Jada Pinkett Smith hopes Will Smith and Chris Rock ‘have an opportunity to heal, talk this out, and reconcile’

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Jada Pinkett Smith briefly addressed the Oscars slap incident on Wednesday’s episode of “Red Table Talk.” Pinkett Smith’s husband, Will Smith, took to the stage at the Academy Awards in March and slapped presenter Chris Rock after he made a joke about Pinkett Smith’s close-cropped haircut. The actress suffers from

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