Scottie Andrew

A trailer for “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” casts a younger Galadriel, a dedicated warrior, as the potential hero of the new series, set thousands of years before the events of the original trilogy.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democrat, enlisted Snooki to film a personalized Cameo message for his Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Next month, the lead role of Roxie Hart will be played by Angelica Ross, the production announced Thursday. Ross will be the first out transgender actress to star as Roxie on Broadway.

A “Sherlock Holmes” book, the first film to win the Oscars’ top prize and a classic ditty by Irving Berlin are among the thousands of books, films and musical compositions entering the US public domain in 2023.

The James Bond-starring video game, originally released on Nintendo 64 in 1997, will be available January 27 through Nintendo Switch Online’s expansion pack and Xbox Game Pass.

“The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling,” a new podcast out Tuesday, sees the author speak with host Megan Phelps-Roper about numerous controversies, while referencing critics of her comments on gender and trans women. Learn more about what she said, as well as the history behind her remarks.

During a ceremony and press conference Wednesday in New York, seven drawings by the Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele were returned to the heirs of their former owner, Fritz Grünbaum, whose art collection was stolen by the Nazis during World War II. The early 20th century works were all “voluntarily surrendered” by the institutions and collectors that held them after Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Trafficking Antiquities unit presented evidence that they had been stolen, District Attor…

A trip to the gas station usually warrants more of a hurried waddle to the bathroom than a commemorative TikTok. But most gas stations are not Buc-ee’s. The Texas-based (and Texas-supersized) gas and convenience store chain offers much more than a place to fuel up and grab a bag of chips. Its devoted fans make regular pilgrimages, sometimes driving hundreds of miles, to stock up on Beaver Nuggets and brisket and merch with its bucktoothed mascot’s smiling face. Even its restrooms are award-winni…

In March 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared onstage alongside a page from the picture book “Call Me Max,” blown up on a piece of poster board. The page showed a child lying outside on the grass on their tummy next to a snoozing dog. The child looked contemplative, their hand propping up their cheek. “When I was born, my mom and dad said, ‘It’s a girl!’ When I looked in the mirror, I saw a girl. Kind of. But because I’m transgender, I wanted to see a boy.” DeSantis held up the page as an…

“Gremlins” turned a benign Christmas holiday into a snowy backdrop for cartoonish murders. “My Bloody Valentine” turned the February 14 obsession with hearts into a ghoulishly literal conceit. In November, blood-and-guts impresario Eli Roth will come for Thanksgiving with an eponymous new horror film starring a killer dressed in Pilgrim finery who’d rather gut small-town victims than turkeys. Horror movies set against the backdrop of the holiday season now make up their own subgenre in a field c…