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New Dwyane Wade statue draws rocky reviews, but where does it rank among the worst recent sports statues?
The Miami Heat unveiled a statue of franchise legend Dwyane Wade on SundaySports - CBS Sports - October 28 -
14 Best Soundbars, Editor Tested and Reviewed (2024): Sonos, Samsung, Yamaha, Sony
Every television deserves a row of speakers to call its own. These are our favorite soundbars.Tech - Wired - October 28 -
Book Review: A man searches for meaning in Mike Fu's unnerving debut novel, 'Masquerade'
Meadow is coming up on 10 years living in New York, and he’s still adriftEntertainment - ABC News - October 28 -
Tyler, the Creator: Chromakopia review – early midlife crisis triggers a freaked-out psychodrama
(Columbia Records) Full of switchback turns, the rapper’s unsettled and unsettling seventh album zaps from Beach Boys harmonies to G-funk synths – and from boasts to self-loathing. News of Tyler, ...World - The Guardian - October 28 -
Trump: A Second Chance? review – why his rise, and his return, make total sense
From Front Row Joes wanting control to the leader of the Proud Boys wanting to ‘make America hate again’, this documentary interviews Trump fans – and takes more time than most films to show why ...World - The Guardian - October 28 -
Movie Review: An unmoving camera and de-aging technology make 'Here' with Tom Hanks painful to watch
Robert Zemeckis’ latest movie is insanely ambitious, starting with the dinosaurs and ending in present day with the RoombaEntertainment - ABC News - October 29 -
Public Enemies: Kendrick vs Drake review – inside the beef that sent the world’s two greatest rap stars to war
Clearly neither rapper had anything to do with this deep dive into their famous feud – and it makes for a refreshing alternative to hip-hop hagiography. The sky isn’t as blue, the grass not so ...World - The Guardian - October 29 -
Juror #2 review: Clint Eastwood puts Nicholas Hoult in court – and an unusual pickle
The 94-year-old director has delivered a courtroom thriller that pits justice against self-preservation. What are the chances, eh? First you get picked for jury duty even though your pregnant wife ...World - The Guardian - 6 days ago -
Music Review: The Cure return after a long break to look at mortality with one of their best albums
You might think that after being silent for 16 years, The Cure would be in a rush to get things goingEntertainment - ABC News - 6 days ago -
Time Cut review – tinny time-travel Netflix slasher offers too much deja vu
The streamer’s gimmicky and over-familiar Halloween offering sees a teen going back to 2003 to save her sister from a masked killer. The triumphant return of the slasher movie, a subgenre that had ...World - The Guardian - 6 days ago -
Music by John Williams review – the man behind the soundtracks, from Star Wars to Superman
Steven Spielberg, Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Martin contribute to this fascinating if fleeting glimpse into a remarkable career that also encompasses Jaws, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter. Seventeen ...World - The Guardian - 6 days ago -
Movie Review: Steve McQueen's WWII drama 'Blitz' is more unconventional than it appears
Steve McQueen's “Blitz” feels stuck between a conventional war drama and something more adventurous and probingEntertainment - ABC News - 6 days ago -
Movie Review: A mercurial Kieran Culkin shines in Jesse Eisenberg’s deft, accomplished ‘A Real Pain’
Writer-director Jesse Eisenberg's “A Real Pain” strikes an almost impossible balanceEntertainment - ABC News - 4 days ago -
Big 12 review says league games were not compromised by helmet communication issues after Texas Tech inquiry
The Big 12 has told its members to send in helmet communication equipment for encryption updatesSports - CBS Sports - 5 days ago -
The Diplomat season two review – effortlessly joins the list of 2024’s best TV
The first series of this political thriller ended with one of the finest television moments ever created – and now it’s back. It’s so good it’s like watching several great shows all at once. In the ...World - The Guardian - 5 days ago -
Prince William: We Can End Homelessness review – is a royal really the right person for this job?
His desire to tackle this issue is impressive, but his plan to eradicate rough sleeping is worryingly hard to understand. Let’s hope it works. Monarchist, I ain’t. Pragmatist, I am. So if Prince ...World - The Guardian - 6 days ago -
Review: A restaurant is a world unto itself in 'La Cocina,' one of the year's freshest films
Starring Raúl Briones and Rooney Mara, the latest film from Alonso Ruizpalacios searches for signs of life in the intense work of running a not-great restaurant.Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 5 days ago -
Review: Civic duty leads to an inconvenient moral quagmire in Clint Eastwood's 'Juror #2'
Nicholas Hoult, J.K. Simmons and Toni Collette star in an unshowy Clint Eastwood production about the limits of American justice, rare in today's multiplex.Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 5 days ago -
Review: 'Here' takes the elements of a 'Gump' reunion and flattens them into faux-cosmic tedium
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright rejoin filmmaker Robert Zemeckis for a stunty, pointless drama about the passing of time captured from one fixed vantage point.Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 5 days ago -
Annarella and Django: Jouer review – flute and west African lute shine in expressive new partnership
(We Are Busy Bodies) This marriage of instruments is best when the full-band moments are stripped back to highlight the duo’s artistry. The plucked melodic twang of the ngoni, a west African lute, ...World - The Guardian - 4 days ago -
Review: David Gilmour shines on at the end of a beautifully haunting three-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl
Gilmour, who joined psych-prog progenitors Pink Floyd two years after the band's 1965 inception, proved vibrant and vital at his fourth show in Los Angeles and final evening of a three-night-stand ...Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 4 days ago -
Review: Bickering cousins run into 'A Real Pain' exploring Jewish heritage, grief and resentments
Writer-director-star Jesse Eisenberg, working alongside a coiled Kieran Culkin, evinces some of the year's finest family dysfunction on a tourist trip to Poland.Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 4 days ago -
Review: In sharp documentary 'Dahomey,' African art returns home, but colonialism still stings
A conversation-starter of a film by director Mati Diop, this brief but complex examination of a France-to-Africa transfer of ancient art asks: Who benefits?Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 3 days ago -
Review: In 'Emilia Pérez,' a musical heightened by danger, passion pours out like a confession
Directed by Jacques Audiard, a Frenchman attuned to the internal turmoil of conflicted criminals, the film becomes more than the sum of its spicier elements.Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 3 days ago -
Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism by Rachel Shabi review – racism by any other name
In this sharp and engaging book, Shabi addresses the need to understand and confront antisemitism at a time when it is being downplayed by parts of the left and exploited by others on the right. ...World - The Guardian - 2 days ago -
V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère review – a humane and thoughtful testimony of terror and loss
This forensic account of the 10-month-long trial of those involved in the 2015 Paris attacks, in which 130 people were killed, treads a fine line between empathy and moral judgments while shining a ...World - The Guardian - 2 days ago