National Entertainment

Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. The Flash 2. The Super Mario Bros. Movie 3. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 5. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 6. John Wick: Chapter 4 7. Sisu 8. Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant 9.

Nonfiction 1. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 2. American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, narrated by Jeff Cummings (Blackstone Audio, Inc.) 3.

TORONTO — Neve Campbell is headed to the Toronto International Film Festival as executive producer of a Karen Kain ballet documentary.

NEW YORK (AP) — Drew Barrymore, whose honors include a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award, will be presiding over a more literary ceremony this fall.

“The Weaver and the Witch Queen” by Genevieve Gornichec (Ace) They say your second book is the hardest one to write, but Genevieve Gornichec — leaning on her Norse mythology love yet again as with debut “The Witch’s Heart” – performs a magic hat tric

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — The Bayreuth Festival intends to present "Rienzi" for the first time in 2026 for its 150th anniversary, going outside the canon of Richard Wagner's final 10 operas for the first time.

“Everything Is Alive,” Darlingside (Thirty Tigers) Even the percussion is pretty. Darlingside’s “Everything Is Alive” achieves a melancholy-inducing beauty from the sum of its parts.

“Somebody’s Fool” by Richard Russo (Alfred A.

TOKYO (AP) — Renowned Japanese mystery writer Seiichi Morimura, whose nonfiction trilogy “The Devil’s Gluttony” exposed human medical experiments conducted by a secret Japanese army unit during World War II, died Monday. He was 90.

NEW YORK (AP) — In the massive movie weekend of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” there were many winners. Greta Gerwig, who made history for female directors . Christopher Nolan, who set a non-Batman career high.