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Ali Siddiq is one hell of a storyteller. The laid-back Houston native has built a comedy career that spans more than 25 years, all based on being himself. All of his YouTube specials, including “Mondays,” “Rugged” and his groundbreaking four-part comedy series “Domino Effect,” have racked up millions of views and his 2025 special “My…

Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” is a grand mass for large orchestra, chorus and four vocal soloists that lasts around 80 minutes. It was written near the end of Beethoven’s life and is his most ambitious work musically and spiritually. “Coming from the heart, may it go to the heart,” he wrote on the first page of…

Before the onset of YouTube, U.S. parents had very limited options when it came to video programs that helped teach their children Spanish. There was, of course, the ever-popular Nickelodeon show “Dora the Explorer” and before that, the PBS show “Amigos,” that looked to instill the basics of Spanish into kids across America. These programs…

For casting director Gabriel Domingues, putting together the ensemble of “The Secret Agent” meant materializing characters inspired by director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s recollections. “It’s not that he was showing us a picture and saying, ‘They must look like this.’ They were ideas of memories that could change,” Domingues says of the Brazilian period thriller about…

As Paramount moved Monday to sweeten its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, a high-stakes political battle is playing out behind the scenes. Paramount’s latest offer enhanced its earlier $30-a-share bid, valued at $108 billion, said a person familiar with the process who was not authorized to comment publicly. Details of the revised proposal, first reported…

Following the lead of several major Hollywood studios, the Motion Picture Association has sent its own cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, the company behind the controversial AI video generator, Seedance 2.0. The trade association, which represents the interests of major film and TV studios, sent a notice to the Chinese company, reflecting its members’ collective response…

This story contains spoilers for Episode 6 of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.” Ira Parker intended the very last scene of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Episode 6 (titled “The Morrow”), to be just “something that was a little funny.” Sunday’s season finale of the HBO fantasy series ends with everyone, including the…

We used to have more films like “Midwinter Break,” in which the combination of a couple of great actors, a gifted writer and the unfussy shepherding of a thorny, intimate scenario gave discerning moviegoers their recommended weekly allowance of adult drama about the human condition. That’s no longer the case, so you would be forgiven…

Eric Dane said he first shut down emotionally at just 7 years old, when navigating his father’s sudden death from a gunshot wound in a bathroom at his family’s home. It wasn’t until his diagnosis with ALS decades later that the seasoned actor felt his own spirit return, Dane said in an interview released Friday…

The nominated Oscar shorts come in three categories — and a lot of subjects, styles and temperaments. It’s further proof that an award dictated by length needn’t be bound by anything else. In the live-action category, a mixed bag of approaches — some inspired by classic literature — are burnished by inspired performances. Lee Knight’s…