Review: Potter prequels peter out in 'Dumbledore'

it’s not a trip it’s a journey (★★★★☆), centering the four-woman dramedy around a character who can’t put into words the pain she’s feeling, yet talks plenty in trying to make sense of it all.In the throes of a crisis perhaps too profound to be reduced to a few sentences, June, a seemingly stable and strong New Yorker, speaks in abstractions and ellipses. She plucks analogies from wherever she can, searching for an image or expression that might help her understand her pain, so she can in turn help her friends understand what’s consuming her.June’s struggle to articulate her feelings comes through in the clipped, pointed, often very funny, dialogue spoken between her and the three dear friends — Willie, Frankie, and Rain — whom she invites on a girls’ road trip to the Grand Canyon.June needs the journey.

Kelly Ripa is a doting mother to three grown-up children, and her youngest Joaquin flew the nest in September to attend college in Michigan.MORE: Kelly Ripa details terrifying uncertainty with her childrenThe Live with Kelly and Ryan star reunited with the 19-year-old this week, and shared several photos of them together.Posing in the kitchen, Kelly pulled a mock unimpressed face as she stood next to the teenager, writing in the caption: "Yeah I get it. You're bigger than me...

The timing seemed propitious: Eager to entice new subscribers, CNN+ was about to unfurl a multi-part exposé of Fox News and its 91-year-old patriarch, Rupert Murdoch. It would be juicy material for the new streaming platform, with newsies on the left hammering their rivals on the right. How could it fail?

NEW YORK -- When Broadway's revival of “Funny Girl” begins, star Beanie Feldstein sits in a Broadway dressing room, getting ready to go on. She wonders nervously to her assistant: "You ever feel like there’s someone watching from the shadows?"The line takes an extra jolt of meaning because Feldstein is stepping into hallowed ground.

Arcade Fire have spoken about Peter Gabriel and Father John Misty‘s contributions to their upcoming new album, ‘WE’.The Canadian band are due to release their sixth studio effort on May 6 via Columbia Records. It was produced by long-term Radiohead collaborator Nigel Godrich along with the group’s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne.During a recent interview with the Montreal Gazette, it was noted that Gabriel contributed to a dance-orientated album track called ‘Unconditional II (Race and Religion)’ on which Chassagne takes the lead.“[Gabriel] came to the studio and we had a day to work on it,” Butler told the outlet.

Joe Francis is being accused of brutally raping a young woman in the back of his Girls Gone Wild party bus back in 2006. The notorious adult content producer, who remains frien

NEW YORK -- Music executive Art Rupe, whose Specialty Records was a premier label during the formative years of rock ‘n roll and helped launch the careers of Little Richard, Sam Cooke and many others, has died. He was 104.Rupe, who was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 2011, died Friday at his home in Santa Barbara, California, according to the Arthur N.

Henry Golding is joining the cast!

Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) has signed on for a role in the drama Downtown Owl, from Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films, Deadline can confirmed. He’s set to star alongside previously announced cast members including Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wittrock, Jack Dylan Grazer, August Blanco Rosenstein and Lily Rabe.

“Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them” has grown from a companion novella J.K. Rowling wrote for her acclaimed ‘Harry Potter’ series into an entirely new prequel film franchise of its own.

It is a story steeped in action and intrigue, but is it true?

Kelly Ripa is opening up about her reaction to the recent shooting in a Brooklyn subway station in New York City, and the terrifying anticipation she felt before she could confirm that her kids were alright.MORE: Kelly Ripa inspires fans as she reveals unexpected date with husband Mark ConsuelosDuring Live! With Kelly and Ryan, Ryan Seacrest and his co-host discussed the scary uncertainty that followed once they learned that a shooting had occurred in Brooklyn. While neither of them were in New York City at the time, Kelly was in Ann Arbour where her youngest son Joaquin goes to college, and Ryan was in Los Angeles, the mom-of-three revealed that her two other children, Lola and Michael, work and study in Brooklyn.WATCH: David Muir and Kelly's friendshipMORE: Kelly Ripa makes tongue-in-cheek remark about her age in new photo that gets fans talkingThe star grew emotional as she detailed the nerve wracking feeling of not knowing whether your loved ones are okay, and how she and her husband Mark Consuelos were frantically texting their son and daughter.She explained that when she first heard there was a gunman wreaking havoc, the local coverage in Michigan didn't specify in which area or station in Brooklyn it was happening. She immediately texted her eldest two: "Are you guys okay? Let me know asap, just let me know."Things grew even scarier for the television host when neither of the two answered for what felt like ages.

Time always flew in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World but it has lately seemed to catch up to the Potter pop cultural sensation. Those long lines outside bookstores are a long time ago now.

It wasn’t just one thing. Peter Facinelli opened up about how his relationship with ex-wife Jennie Garth shifted over the years and how it affected his new romance with fiancée Lily Anne Harrison.

“Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life,” by Delia Ephron (Little, Brown and Company)After Delia Ephron's husband died, she wrote a New York Times piece about the battle to get her internet service turned back on after Verizon disconnected it along with her late spouse's landline.The humorous op-ed about Ephron's hellish encounter with the phone company drew plenty of responses, including a sympathetic email from a man she dated briefly in college more than a half century before.Ephron's late husband, Jerry, a writer like herself, had been her soulmate for more than three decades before he died in 2015 from cancer. Her correspondent, Peter, was a Jungian psychiatrist living in Northern California.Widowed and both 72, Ephron and her new suitor quickly fall for each other over email, and then in person, as they embark on a late-life journey exploring love, friendship, illness and loss.The funny, poignant and sometimes magical memoir is an open-eyed look at later life and what Ephron calls the left turns that can be perilous or wonderous.One perilous turn was the death of Ephron's dog, Honey, her last link to Jerry and their long marriage together.But there's also plenty of enchantment.A wonderous turn came as Ephron and her new love watched a solar eclipse in an Oregon field, feeling like members of a cult as they join other people wearing special glasses to protect their eyes.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s elegantly humble 1943 children’s novella The Little Prince is transformed into a visually spectacular, dramatically overblown meld of dance, music, video and, best of all, breathtaking aerial acrobatics in Anne Tournié’s international staging opening on Broadway tonight at the Broadway Theatre.

Kelly Ripa has had an incredible career to date and the year 2022 is certainly a busy one for her!MORE: Kelly Ripa's New York townhouse has the most extravagant décorAlong with hosting Live with Kelly and Ryan each morning, the TV star is preparing for the release of her much-anticipated book, Live Wire.She's been sharing details of the book's release on social media of late, most recently on Monday, when she shared a preview picture of the cover, along with her husband Mark Consuelos' rather unexpected response to her writing!VIDEO: Kelly Ripa's incredible New York view from her townhouse revealedShe wrote: "My husband said writing a book is like giving birth. He's never done either.

Ayanna Prescod One minute you’re a teenager ready to “rebel against the universe,” then in the blink of an eye you’re a senior making peace with the life that was handed to you. That’s the short and sweet premise of Noah Haidle’s buttery new drama, “Birthday Candles.” In the play, now having its New York premiere at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway, Debra Messing (“Will & Grace”, “Smash”) plays the protagonist Ernestine, methodically and graciously moving through the aging process and proving that the recipe to thrive is to simply survive.The ingredients of this Roundabout Theatre Company production are equally measured.