“Free Solo,” starring Las Vegas climber Alex Honnold, was named best documentary feature at Sunday’s 91st Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
Christopher Lawrence
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Christopher Lawrence escaped his native Kentucky without an accent thanks to the thousands of hours he spent in front of a television as a child. That’s also why he never learned how to ride a bicycle. He’s been writing about TV and movies since his days at Murray State University, when the school’s basketball coach had him reassigned at the student newspaper after just one story about the team. He’s been a professional TV critic since 2000, the Review-Journal’s TV critic since 2005 and its movie critic since 2012.
An evening that highlighted inclusion, from the diversity of presenters to the multiple victories by the Spanish-language “Roma,” ended with one of the most divisive best picture winners in recent memory.
Oscar ratings have been trending downward since 2014, having plummeted from 43.7 million viewers that year to an all-time low of 26.5 million in 2018.
In 1989, the last time the Oscars went without a host, the ceremony kicked off with Merv Griffin crooning “I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts,” Cyd Charisse dancing the tango and Rob Lowe singing a version of “Proud Mary” with a helium-voiced Snow White.
The Academy Awards aren’t necessarily broken, but that hasn’t stopped seemingly everyone responsible for this year’s ceremony from spinning The Wheel O’ Random Ideas in search of a fix.
As a half dozen chefs chopped and diced, curious onlookers peppered them with questions and generally got all up in their grills. So to speak.
If you’re a Dish Network subscriber inconvenienced by the impasse that’s kept HBO blacked out since Halloween, relax. Just find some young whippersnapper to steal it for you.
For the eighth year in a row, “American Ninja Warrior” will stage its national finals on the Las Vegas Strip.
There are worse things than being single on Valentine’s Day. The movie “Valentine’s Day,” for instance.
When Galaxy Theatres opens its Boulevard Mall multiplex later this spring, it will be the home of the world’s first Sony Digital Cinema.
“The Real Housewives of New York City” star will bring her cabaret show, “#CountessAndFriends,” to the Terry Fator Theatre.
“Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” kicked off its Lucky in Love week, featuring couples who met in Las Vegas, by sending valley residents Lorraine and Blake Calcote home with $30,000.
The superpowered comic book drama debuts Friday on Netflix.
You don’t need to look very far at MAGIC to find entrepreneurs who are taking what could have been trash and turning it into, if not necessarily treasure, at least an ambitious business model.
Lee Lanier, founder of the Dam Short Film Festival, on life after resigning from the day-to-day operations of event.