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How Gilda Radner changed comedy

7 years 10 months ago
Gilda Radner -- one of the most influential cast members in "Saturday Night Live" history -- played a pivotal role in shaping "SNL," forever changing the course of comedy.

Dear Oscars: Stop trying to push the envelope

7 years 10 months ago
Kevin Hart's Oscars departure has been a how-not-to course in public relations, but the interlude offers a reminder to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Don't try to be what you're not, writes CNN's Brian Lowry in an analysis.

'Dumplin'' serves up drama and Dolly Parton songs

7 years 10 months ago
Stop if you've heard this one: An overweight girl clashes with her beauty-queen mother, entering a teen beauty pageant as an act of defiance. Yet the set-up somehow works reasonably well in "Dumplin'," a Netflix movie that weaves Dolly Parton songs throughout the story and casts Jennifer Aniston as the mom.

'Icebox' offers chilling tale of young asylum seeker's journey

7 years 10 months ago
Beyond timely, "Icebox" is a wrenching, harrowing movie about one Honduran boy's quest for asylum, and the conditions he faces after being apprehended in the United States. Acquired by HBO, the spare project from first-time writer-director Daniel Sawka weds the stark feel and look of a documentary with the emotional wallop that comes from drama.
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