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Glen Powell, left, and Daisy Edgar-Jones in "Twisters," directed by Lee Isaac Chung. Naperville native Danie Seok served as the film's associate producer and oversaw all the special effects. (Universal Pictures/TNS)

Column: Do movies have a message? (They do, whether studios like it or not)

July 25, 2024 at 7:39 a.m.

The director of "Twisters" says no one in the movie says the words "climate change" because he doesn't think "films are meant to be message-oriented.”

Pete Rose got his revenge on the Shea Stadium fans by homering with one out in the 12th inning to give the Reds a 2-1 victory over the Mets and square their National League championship series at two games apiece. Rose had been the object of abuse 10/8 following an altercation with Mets' shortstop Bud Harrelson. (Bettmann/Getty Images/Courtesy of HBO)

‘Charlie Hustle & the Matter of Pete Rose’ review: A soiled baseball great attempts to come clean

July 24, 2024 at 9:03 a.m.

Banned from baseball for life after he was caught gambling on games, Pete Rose squirms and dodges through a reckoning in this four-part HBO documentary series.

From left: Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, William Zabka as Johnny Lawrence and Yuji Okumoto as Chozen in Season 6 of "Cobra Kai." (Curtis Bonds Baker/Netflix)

‘Cobra Kai’ Season 6: Daniel and Johnny fight for the soul of the Valley one last time

July 18, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.

It is the sixth and supersized final season for the Netflix series "Cobra Kai," the "Karate Kid" TV spinoff which has somehow chugged along all this time.

Gymnast Simone Biles seen in the documentary "Simone Biles Rising." (Netflix)

‘Simone Biles Rising’ review: An elite gymnast untangles the twisties

July 17, 2024 at 8:54 a.m.

Ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, where gymnast Simone Biles is set to compete, the two-part Netflix documentary dissects why she pulled out in 2020.

What are we being denied — if anything — when actors we admire aren’t “the biggest movie star in the world right now”?

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Column: Do we need movie stars?

July 12, 2024 at 1:27 p.m.

Plenty of screen actors these days are successful but we don’t think of them as stars. Why is that, and what’s different from the era of De Niro and Dunaway?

Two survivors of the trouble teen industry featured in the documentary "Teen Torture, Inc." (Max0

‘Teen Torture, Inc.’ review: In the troubled teen industry, major profits and major allegations of abuse

July 10, 2024 at 7:49 a.m.

The documentary "Teen Torture, Inc." on Max centers on survivors of programs that use "tough love" and abuse as methods to turn around wayward kids.

Paramount Pictures is the longest operating movie studio in Hollywood. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Column: Paramount’s new president was fired last year as CEO of NBCUniversal after allegations of sexual harassment

July 8, 2024 at 4:08 p.m.

Jeff Shell's firing last year has been conspicuously absent in the reporting so far across numerous outlets about the Paramount-Skydance merger.

Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley and Paul Reiser as Jeffrey Friedman in "Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F." (Netflix)

‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ review: The heat is (back) on

July 3, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.

The summer movie landscape could use Eddie's Murphy’s brand of talent and panache. "Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F" on Netflix almost gets there. Almost.

From left: Jeremy Allen White as Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto and Edwin Lee Gibson as Ebraheim on Season 3 of “The Bear.” (FX)

Column: Class and social status in the kitchen and ‘The Bear’

July 2, 2024 at 7:52 p.m.

A Chicago sandwich joint switches to fine dining, but restaurants of all types are an ecosystem where class issues play out. How well — or not — does “The Bear”...

Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu and Jeremy Allen White as Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto in Season 3 of "The Bear."

‘The Bear’ Season 3 review: Carmy bears down on success, with uneven results

June 27, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

In Season 3, "The Bear" is portrait of a start-up restaurant led by a chef whose ambitions outweigh his reality.

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