Simu Liu is hustling to turn down the heat on a Canadian bubble tea company after criticism of its televised sales pitch to the Marvel superhero boiled over online.

During a recent guest appearance on CBC's "Dragon's Den" — a "Shark Tank"-style reality series — the "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" star called out the Quebec-based...Read more

Tesla's Robovan may operate autonomously, but according to one sci-fi director, Elon Musk doesn't.

Last week Musk presented Tesla's latest prototypes for its autonomous electric bus, the self-driving Cybercab and robotic humanoid Optimus, aka Tesla bot. But the automotive executive's purported state-of-the-art designs bear a striking ...Read more

ATLANTA — Actor, quirky raconteur and stand-up comic David Cross, who crossed the 60 year mark this past spring, joked on his comedy special earlier this year “The Worst Daddy in the World” about being an older dad surrounded by insufferable younger hipster fathers in Brooklyn, New York.

But the “Arrested Development” alum who grew up...Read more

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

OCTOBER

15: The Boy in the Woods

15: 9 Windows

15: Kill 'Em All 2

15: Model House

15: Demon Pond

15: Pandora’s Box

22: Deadpool & Wolverine

22: Twisters

22: Borderlands

22: Cuckoo

22: Oddity

22: Slingshot

22: The Beast Within

22: The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jesús Ortiz Paz, singer of the San Bernardino-born música Mexicana band Fuerza Regida, is relentless about winning every possible fan. From throwing album release beach parties to playing gigs at high schools, winging drive-by sets on the 10 Freeway or headlining festivals like Camp Flog Gnaw, the band has done whatever's ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The audience inside the largest auditorium at Norwalk's new Milagro Cinemas was jazzed. Although other theaters in the multiplex played "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," "Transformers One" and other hits, this crowd was celebrating one of last year's most notable disappointments.

The object of their affection was DC Comics' "Blue ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — If you ask Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill how the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band got its start, the answer is more complicated than you might expect.

At 72, Hill is the longest-serving member of the British heavy metal group, having been in the band continuously since 1970. Who better to untangle the origin story?

"Ken and ...Read more

An R-rated superhero team-up tops the DVD releases for the week of Oct. 22.

"Deadpool & Wolverine": Irascible potty-mouthed superhero Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) teams up with stoic Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) in a farewell salute to 20th Century Fox's Marvel era (as produced by Disney).

"At the risk of saying anything about what the film is about, ...Read more

Ashleigh Beverly couldn’t stop people-watching.

It was 2015, and she was walking around Lakewood Amphitheatre.

Beverly caught wind of something called One Musicfest, featuring sets from Lauryn Hill, The Roots, Janelle Monáe and Wale. She figured, why not drive to Atlanta from Tallahassee, Florida?

When she arrived, in addition to an ideal ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — As the Sonics strode on stage at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on Halloween night in 2008 — the nearly forgotten garage rockers were reuniting for the first time in more than four decades — filmmaker Jordan Albertsen saw his destiny before him.

"That was actually the night I consider that I started working on this ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It's a hometown Philly crowd, and Gerad Argeros has them. The audience of his one-man show "Fox Chase Boy" is laughing, they're shaking their heads. Regaling them in the cadence of Northeast Philadelphia, he's speaking their language — the Phillies, the Eagles, cheesesteaks. Big, tight families, working-class childhoods, and ...Read more

Demi Moore has offered an update on Bruce Willis' health, more than two years after the "Die Hard" actor was diagnosed with aphasia.

Willis, 69, was diagnosed with aphasia, a cognitive disorder, in March 2022. Less than a year later, he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative brain disease that currently has no cure.

Moore ...Read more

Five years after its climatic end, “Game of Thrones” is a blockbuster hit on the auction block.

Collectibles and memorabilia from and inspired by the iconic HBO series raked in over $21 million dollars over the weekend.

The “original touring Iron Throne molded from the original screen-used throne” sold for $1.49 million after a nearly...Read more

Who says money can't buy the Iron Throne? Westeros' coveted seat of power, which was at the heart of HBO's Emmy-winning fantasy epic "Game of Thrones," has fetched nearly $1.5 million at auction.

The original touring Iron Throne sold for $1.49 million on Saturday after a six-minute bidding war, according to Heritage Auctions, which organized a ...Read more

Brantley Gilbert's tour stop in Mississippi went off the rails Friday night: The country-rock musician's wife gave birth to their third child while he was performing onstage, prompting him to pause the show for his son's imminent arrival.

Shortly after starting his Off the Rails Tour set in Tupelo, Miss., the "Bottoms Up" singer was pulled away...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — This year’s Philadelphia Film Festival brings to the city a program of 98 films. To help us plan our time at the festival, we asked two film critics for some recommendations. Here’s what former Inquirer film critic Carrie Rickey and frequent Inquirer writer Stephen Silver are most excited to see in this year’s (in Rickey�...Read more

Outfest, the struggling nonprofit that had hosted a prominent Los Angeles LGBTQ+ film festival, is facing a defamation lawsuit from its former executive director, Damien S. Navarro.

Navarro on Friday sued Outfest in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging he was retaliated against after he raised discrimination and ethics concerns to the group's ...Read more

MIAMI — Renee Castro keeps a sacred tradition. A devout Swiftie, she has been to every single Taylor Swift world tour in her hometown of Miami.

But for The Eras Tour, Swift’s record-breaking, career-defining, international tour that takes over the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens this weekend, Castro had no luck securing a seat. ...Read more

As humans in a changing world we crave continuity, reliability. Before we walk into a room, we like to be fairly certain of what we'll find — walls, floor, furniture, not hot coals or clouds of poison gas. Thus the popularity of the franchise. It may not lead to great, revolutionary art, but at the end of a long day, when you kick off your ...Read more