If you've seen the new Lifetime movie "A Christmas Wish," shot in and set in Ponchatoula, you'll remember the wish box.
If you don't know about Disney+, there's a decent chance you've been living under a rock.
Chances are you didn't see "The Last Black Man in San Francisco."
Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and visual artist Solange, who now calls New Orleans home, will perform some of her new music on the "Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" Monday night.
A movie about "The Torture Report" will undoubtedly anger audiences. But Amazon Studios' new drama about those events, "The Report," frustrates for another reason: It's uncompelling.
Driving along Ponchatoula's Pine Street last May, you couldn't miss the street lamps wrapped in silver tinsel, giant red bows topping doorways and the more-than-usual amount of twinkling white lights stretched over the Tangipahoa Parish city's mai…
Watching "The Irishman" is like spending an afternoon with your grandfather — that is, if your grandpa was a mobster or one of the greatest actors most famous for playing mobsters.
Are you and your family good guessers? Pleasant under pressure? Have punchy personalities?
Name something the Vicknair family loves to do. Survey says:
The quaint Acadiana town of New Iberia will get its two hours of fame on Saturday night when Lifetime airs "Christmas in Louisiana."
In 2002, right there in the lobby of the Broadmoor Cinema 4 in Baton Rouge, a legend held court.
Across the last weekends of the year, the box office will get interesting.
Nobody was going to stop Warren Beatty from making "Reds."
NEW YORK — Here, again, is Johnny.
It’s November and, fingers crossed, Louisiana’s brief fall has finally settled in. With a nip in the air and Thanksgiving on the horizon, there’s plenty to be grateful for. This month, I’m sharing a show I am personally thankful exists: “The West Wing.”
Siblings Chasah West and Charliese West, of Lafayette, have been named winners of the 2019 Short Subject Screenplay Competition held by VRS Media Group.
No matter the publicity, the stories, or number of screenings, Greg Sestero still appreciates "The Room."
Twelve years before the Civil War, Harriet Tubman made her bold flight from slavery, journeying 100 miles, alone and mostly on foot, from Maryland’s Eastern Shore to Philadelphia. Rather than stay in relative safety, Tubman became an Underground R…
New Orleans' Sophie White will guest-star on Wednesday's episode of the medical drama series "Chicago Med" at 7 p.m. on NBC.
In the New Orleans-set chase-thriller, “Black and Blue,” Alicia West gets caught between communities.
Director Deon Taylor already knew that his New Orleans-shot action-thriller, "Black and Blue," is a crowd pleaser. Even so, the electric reaction to the movie when it screened recently at the AMC Elmwood Palace 20 in Harahan thrilled him.
A meet and greet with New Orleans actor Blake Burt will precede Thursday's 7 p.m. screening of the new faith-based action film "The Reliant" at Movie Tavern Juban Crossing in Denham Springs.
“The Laundromat” is a breezy comedy about greed, fraud and corruption — or at least it tries to be.
For a moment, "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" seems poised to turn into a wonderful take on "Father of the Bride" only with fangs and wings.
Miles "Pudge" Halter has a lot on and in his mind.
Although Jordan Chase was only a child during the years he and his family lived in the New Orleans area, the blues and soul permeating the city has stuck with him.
An air of menace and a cloud of controversy accompany the arrival of Todd Phillips’ “Joker.” That, in itself, could be something to celebrate. Danger isn’t a quality often found in the sanitized corporate-made movies of today, least of all in the …
New Orleans native Jordan Chase landed a spot on Team Blake on Tuesday night's episode of NBC's "The Voice."
The bad news: If you tuned in to Hallmark Channel on Sept. 21, you didn't see former Baton Rouge actor Wes Brown's new original movie "Over the Moon in Love."
Stream This: Netflix makes a big October movie push with Eddie Murphy, Soderbergh and 'Breaking Bad'
Like an episode of Dwayne Johnson's "Ballers," the stakes have never been higher for Netflix.
Can you say something is having a resurgence if it never really left?
Editor’s note: Reviews used here are taken from Advocate staff, wire and Tribune News Service reports. Critics are attributed as M.P. — Michael Phillips; L.B. — Lindsey Bahr; K.T. — Kenneth Turan; J.C. — Jake Coyle; J. Ch. — Justin Chang; J.N. — J…
New Orleans native Jordan Chase landed a spot on Team Blake on Tuesday night's episode of NBC's "The Voice."
Laine Hardy's fans, more than 5,000 of them, crowded into Denham Springs' North Park on Saturday for the American Idol's daylong homecoming bash, capped when he took the stage at 9 p.m. to loud cheers from the adoring crowd.
When a group of “dirty” actors rolled into rural Pointe Coupee Parish on motorcycles to film “Easy Rider” more than 50 years ago, few people, if any, imagined the movie they made would achieve the success it did.
In 1989, amid the praise, interviews and prizes for his debut "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," director Steven Soderbergh joked with his then-agent and said, "Great, now I'm going to get hit by a bus."
While the smorgasbord of television-viewing options continues to swell in 2019, the broadcast networks' fall TV season is alive and well, bursting with possibilities — new dramas and comedies, fresh faces and familiar friends.
The premise behind writer and director Lulu Wang’s wonderful film ”The Farewell” might be a little hard to accept for some audiences. A family collectively decides not to tell their grandmother that she has been diagnosed with lung cancer and has …
Six seasons and 52 episodes of “Downton Abbey” weren’t enough.
Two years ago on the stage at Denham Springs' North Park, Laine Hardy won second place in the local singing competition Bayou Idol.
Former Baton Rouge actor Wes Brown returns to the Hallmark Channel for its new original movie "Over the Moon in Love" at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5.
'The Disaster Artist' author Greg Sestero will host 'The Room' interactive screenings in Baton Rouge
"The Room" is practically the gold standard for "so bad, it's good" movies.
It took Eddie Murphy more than a decade to get a movie made about Rudy Ray Moore. Judging by the response to the film at the Toronto International Film Festival, the wait was worth it.
I don't know much, but I know Linda Ronstadt was a pop goddess.
What do Ruben Studdard, Jennifer Hudson and Laine Hardy have in common besides "American Idol"?
Showtime's first true crime docu-series, "Murder in the Bayou," debuts at 8 p.m. Friday and takes viewers to Jennings to revisit the “Jeff Davis 8” case.
It can be a cheesy thing when a novel is split up and spread out over a handful of films, but Stephen King's "It" is not one of those books.
We’re deep in the true crime era of pop culture.
Steven Soderbergh needed a hit.
Louisiana Public Broadcasting is goin' country during September.
Louisiana actor-singer-producer John Schneider's years-long divorce battle with his second wife, Elvira "Elly" Schneider, is over.