20th Century Fox Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 film “Solaris,” based on the 1961 novel by Stanislav Lem, was an interesting experiment as sci-fi blockbusters go. Starring George Clooney and made for a not-immodest budget of $47 million, “Solaris” tells the tale of an astronaut Dr. Kelvin (Clooney), who is…

Looters ransacked shops across the UK as they took advantage of last night’s chaos as riots swept Britain – which saw police officers hospitalised by thugs, violence filling the streets and buildings and cars torched. Police forces were pushed to the breaking point as as battles broke out from Bristol and Stoke to Liverpool, Manchester…

The man responsible for stealing a Jackie Robinson statue from a youth baseball league in Wichita, Kan. was sentenced on Friday to 15 years in prison, ending a saga that drew national headlines. Ricky Alderete, 45, pleaded guilty in May to theft, as well as other charges. The Wichita Eagle reported Friday that most of…

20th Century Studios The casting in 20th Century Fox’s “X-Men” movies was always a mixed bag. Some picks were perfect at bringing the comic character to life — Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, Kelsey Grammer as Beast, etc. Others were swings and misses —…

On the first night of her ten-show run in Munich, Adele is feeling nervous. Throughout the evening, she conveys this anxiety to the audience in several typically Adele-esque ways. From somewhere backstage before curtain-up, she posts a message onto the auditorium screen under a contemporaneous photograph of herself with her hair in curlers. ‘See you…

PARIS — Simone Biles is one of one, much like the challenging vault that only she alone attempts. It was, as expected, Biles’s Yurchenko double pike that secured her Olympic gold medal here in the vault final of the Paris Games. She took only a small hop back on her landing and received a one-tenth…

New Line Cinema Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 Oscar darling “Boogie Nights” took place from 1977 through 1984, when the fun-loving, sexed-up cocaine-and-porn party of the 1970s rapidly withered into the selfish, burned-out, uptight, moralistic Reagan era. Anderson showed a great deal of respect for the hard work and…

This is the horrifying moment a mob of racist thugs in Hull dragged an Asian man out of his car and smashed it up, as riots swept Britain following the Southport stabbing earlier this week.  A video posted to X, formerly Twitter, last night showed a mob of rioters charging towards a grey vehicle in…

WESTFIELD, Ind. — When Reggie Wayne jogs out to the practice fields at Grand Park, the crowd still cheers for him as if he’s preparing to line up and catch a touchdown pass from current Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson. The 45-year-old is the definition of a living legend in Indianapolis, the kind of player…

Paramount Trekkies will be able to tell you that “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry was notoriously strict when it came to his famed sci-fi series. Indeed, writers for “Star Trek: The Next Generation” have gone on record saying how much they hated the notorious Roddenberry Rule when it…