Shannen Doherty and I graduated high school the same year, even though hers was the fictional West Beverly High and mine was in New York. We've never met, but she feels like a friend and someone I greatly admire. So I found myself in tears on Tuesday when I read Doherty's breast cancer had returned after a remission.
"Locke & Key" clearly wants to tap into the "Stranger Things" audience, turning the bestselling comic book about kids and magical keys into a Netflix series. But the show has a too-familiar feel to it -- down to all the youthful angst -- making the eight-episode first season a door that isn't worth entering.
"Homeland" begins its eighth and final season with some cleaning up to do, having left its main character in a precarious spot when the last one ended. That plot is quickly dispatched to place Carrie Mathison back in the Middle East, in a go-for-broke attempt to secure peace there that offers little indication of bringing the show to a conclusion worthy of its beginnings.
Nick Gordon, the former boyfriend of Bobbi Kristina Brown, died from a heroin overdose, according to Florida's Districts 5 & 24 medical examiner's office.
Few actors can almost single-handedly elevate a crime procedural above its humble origins, but Edie Falco is one of them. The former "The Sopranos" star lifts "Tommy" to a higher level, playing the first female chief of the Los Angeles Police Dept., an organization with a particularly storied TV tradition.
If the fear is that Americans have become inured to gun violence -- hearing the statistics, sighing and moving on -- "In Memoriam" seeks to remedy that, with a documentary that's alternately spare and horrifying.
In "Suicide Squad," Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn was the best part of a bad movie. That's true again with "Birds of Prey," which moves the Joker's sadistic sidekick front and center, then proceeds to assault the senses in much the way its protagonist wields a baseball bat.
Kirk Douglas, one of the great Hollywood leading men whose off-screen life was nearly as colorful as his on-screen exploits, has died, according to his son, actor Michael Douglas. He was 103.
Jay-Z has a message for all those who believed he and his wife Beyoncé were engaging in a silent protest at this year's Super Bowl: "It actually wasn't. Sorry."
The Oscar race is viewed as more wide-open than usual, thanks in part to the absence of a completely dominant frontrunner, as well as hurdles that some key contenders would have to overcome in history-making fashion.
