Arts & Entertainment

U.S. Best-selling books for Jan. 21

Sue Monk Kidd’s new novel, The Invention of Wings, debuted at the top of most U.S. best-seller lists this week.…

Sandusky’s son takes part in film on Penn St. case

Matt Sandusky, right, the adopted son of former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre County…

De Niro honors late father with documentary

Robert De Niro stands next to a painting executed by his father, Robert De Niro Sr. De Niro has made…

Scene and heard at Sundance

are a few highlights from the film festival

Ken Burns making documentary on country music

Country fans have a wait ahead of them, though. PBS said Monday that Burns’ country music project isn’t set to…

Academy Awards odds, ends, facts, figures

FIRST-TIMERS: It’s never too late for an Academy Award nomination. Just ask June Squibb, who is a first-time Oscar nominee…

Academy Award nominations

1. Best Picture: “American Hustle,” “Captain Phillips,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Gravity,” “Her,” “Nebraska,” “Philomena,” “12 Years a Slave,” “The Wolf…

Box-office numbers for Academy Award nominees

“American Hustle,” Sony, $103,565,129, 10 nominations, H (Durango Stadium 9). “Captain Phillips,” Sony, $105,010,295, six nominations. “Dallas Buyers Club,” Focus,…

Roberts upstages Streep in ‘August’

actresses nominated for Academy Awards

Kimmel’s show heads to SXSW festival in March

ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” said Thursday it will air five shows in March from Austin. The Texas city hosts the…

New study: Both e-books and print are popular

Based on interviews conducted earlier this month, the study released Thursday shows 50 percent of respondents saying they have a…

Climax to CBS series filmed 8 years ago

Clockwise from foreground left, Alyson Hannigan, Neal Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders and Josh Radnor in a scene from “How I…

And the nominees are …

’Hustle,’ ‘Gravity’ lead Oscars with 10 nods apiece

‘Grown Ups 2’ leads Razzies worst-of list

The silly comedy sequel about four childhood friends led the Razzie lineup Tuesday with eight nominations, including worst picture, sequel,…

‘It’s like another Vietnam out here’

Documentary recounts deadly 1985 Philadelphia standoff, burning of neighborhood

Denver Art Museum to acquire major paintings

A tour group admires “A Painter at Work” by Paul Cézanne on Friday in the “Passport to Paris” exhibition at…

Globes leader ‘American Hustle’ gets Oscar boost

Bradley Cooper got a Golden Globe nomination as Richie Dimaso and Amy Adams won Best Actress in a Comedy or…

Fox chief: Forget pilot season for us

Kevin Reilly has taken a step in that direction by doing away with pilot season – the frantic period in…

Independent Film Channel drops film; now just IFC

Viewers of “Portlandia” or other quirky comedies had probably figured that out by now. But the network’s general manager, Jennifer…

U.S. Best-selling books for Jan. 14

Fiction 1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Co.) 2. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Little, Brown and…

No color, no problem

Movies in 2014 to keep an eye on

2013 was a tale of two cinemas. Blockbusters like “The Lone Ranger” and “After Earth” flopped spectacularly while many in…

At the Movies

Taylor Kitsch, left, as Michael Murphy and Mark Wahlberg as Marcus Luttrell in a scene from the fact-based film “Lone…

Sundance darling ‘Blood Brother’ pays a visit

Documentary took major awards at Utah film festival