Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Busts Some Moves at Taylor Swift’s Concert

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Taylor Swift never had a shortage of famous people attending her concerts … and Friday night was no different as Justin Trudeau popped in to see her performance in Canada. The Canadian Prime Minister showed […]

Jaleel White looks back on his Urkel days in a new memoir

"Growing Up Urkel: A Memoir" by Jaleel White

On the Shelf ‘Growing Up Urkel’ By Jaleel White Simon & Schuster, 336 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent […]

‘Say Nothing,’ ‘The Diplomat’ add to British Bad Guy hall of fame

A man in a suit and tie, looking a bit squirrelly

Though he has not yet been given his own detective series, Rory Kinnear is a deeply British actor. He’s done Shakespeare and “Cranford,” “The Thick of It” and James Bond. He’s played Frankenstein’s monster in […]

20 Mainstream Movies With Terrible Acting

20 Mainstream Movies With Terrible Acting

Listen, we’re not saying that indie movies are bad. If anything, they’re often better than the soulless blockbusters built from the lowest common denominator in some conglomerate’s focus group. We’re just saying that, when nobody’s invested more […]

‘Wicked’ review: Massive adaptation takes its time to soar

Two powerful figures of Oz plot conspiratorially.

The show “Wicked” doesn’t need a movie adaptation to be relevant — it’s already a cultural phenomenon, even before this first part of a behemoth two-film Hollywood version hits theaters. The beloved Broadway musical is […]

Wicked review: Wizard of Oz based story is a perfect slice of escapism from the miserable weather and even gloomier news

Pop star Ariana Grande’s ditzy blonde Glinda Upland is a great foil for Cynthia Erivo’s troubled swot Elphaba Thropp

Wicked PG 160mins ★★★★☆ THERE aren’t many surprises in Hollywood – but one of them is it took 21 years to get stage musical Wicked on to the big screen. The good news is . . .  it […]

Wicked review: Finally, a movie musical for musical lovers

Elphaba, a green-skinned woman, and Glinda, a blonde woman in pink, stare at each other across a room full of pink furniture in Wicked

For too long, musical theater fans have suffered from movie adaptations that really try hard not to be musicals. This hasn’t always been the case, but in recent years, marketing has hidden song and dance […]

The Broadway Musical movie adaptation is magical

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The movie version of Broadway’s beloved musical, Wicked has been a long time coming since the play’s opening in 2003, but it is finally here, and quite frankly not only soars cinematically, it exceeds all […]