Things were eerily quiet Wednesday evening on Roosevelt Way.
No, it’s not just your imagination. Wendell Pierce really is everywhere.
Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated New Orleans jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard is no house-hunting amateur. After moving back to his native New Orleans from New York in 1995, he purchased a succession of beautiful homes.
It’s not exactly a Hollywood ending, but it’s close.
It’s called “Looking for Alaska,” but it’s about a kid from Florida, it’s set at a boarding school in Alabama and it was shot throughout southeast Louisiana.
It’s been 30 years since the first New Orleans Film Festival, and a lot has changed in that time. Three decades on, there are more screenings, more visiting filmmakers, more attendees — more of everything, really.
Director James Cameron’s 1984 blockbuster, “The Terminator” — starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg assassin and Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, the woman he’s aiming to kill — earned more than $78.3 million worldwide at the box office.
In 1989, a group of New Orleans cinephiles got a crazy idea. In a city that’s always looking for a good reason to party, why not throw one to celebrate film?
The TV show has had puppets with HIV, jailed parents and autism.
In the New Orleans-set “Black and Blue,” rookie police officer Alicia West spends much of her time on the run, evading crooked cops.
We in South Louisiana know a thing or two about water. We know how generous, how restorative and how life-giving it is. At the same time, we know all too well how powerful, cruel and unstoppable it can be.
'Television has never been bigger.'
Honestly, it should probably be in the Smithsonian — right there alongside Archie Bunker’s chair and Dick Van Dyke’s shin-busting ottoman.
From nearly the beginning, “Downton Abbey” has felt as if it would lend itself well to the big screen.
The streaming service is losing "The Office" and "Friends" soon.
New Orleans is no stranger to celebrity sightings, but even by local standards, the recent Southern Decadence parade in the French Quarter brought a slightly unusual one.
In traditional fashion, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra once again is the first major New Orleans arts organization to kick off the cultural season. And it's adding a few "new traditions" to its season-opening performance.
Chances are, you’ve seen James DuMont before. You know that face. If you’re like most people, though, you just won’t quite know where from. He’s just “that guy.”
Coulrophobia is the irrational fear of clowns.
Despite the historic underrepresentation of women in the film industry, the fall movie season includes multiple films spearheaded by women. And, working in key positions as writers, directors and producers, they’re often telling stories about women.
You’d be forgiven for thinking David Crosby is indestructible. The silver-haired, golden-voiced icon has been around since the dawn of rock’s psychedelic revolution, after all.
Who exactly is “Luce”? That’s the question at the center of writer-director Julius Onah’s superbly acted psychodrama, one that faces the film’s characters and audiences alike.
“Burning Cane,” directed by 19-year-old New Orleans Center for Creative Arts graduate Phillip Youmans, has been chosen as the centerpiece film at this year's New Orleans Film Festival, officials announced Tuesday. Starring Wendell Pierce, “Burning…
The Sunshine State’s presence is right there, front and center in the title of Showtime’s new dramatic comedy “On Becoming a God in Central Florida,” which stars Kirsten Dunst as a scrappy inhabitant of an Orlando-adjacent city in 1992. But even b…
Liz Reyes knew immediately that something awful had happened.
It’s difficult to keep up with 10-year old actor Jibrail Nantambu, whom we last saw starring opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in 2018’s ongoing horror film, “Halloween,” and shooting the film “Body Cam” with Mary J. Blige, penned by John Ridley of “12 Ye…
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C.J. Morgan, a popular and top-rated morning radio host in New Orleans for nearly two decades, died Wednesday. He was 63.
For Sheba Turk, it was a personal decision. Nearly two years ago, around Christmas 2017, the WWL-TV morning show anchor decided to do something she’d been wanting to do since the fourth grade: She let her hair grow out naturally.
When “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader” debuted 12 years ago, the show proved, entertainingly, that quite a few adults are not.
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The 89-year-old actor who brought Morgus the Magnificent to local television 60 years ago plans a one-man show, “An Evening with Sid Noel: Recollections of a Mad Scientist,” at the Orpheum Theater on Oct. 13.
“Them That Follow” is by no means the first film to liken love and snake bites. Not many films, however, play that metaphor so literally as writer-directors Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage’s independently produced tale of passion and venom am…
Sharief and Carmen get married
Given its hotbox temperatures and the persistent threat of tropical development in the Gulf, summer in New Orleans ordinarily means a bit of a break in major film activity in the city, as studios — and stars — tend to decamp until the much more te…
When Nick and Lindsay take the stage tonight for NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” they have made it farther than most people in this contest in which you can see almost any sort of performance – even Valerie Sassyfras, a New Orleans entertainer known…
Residents of the normally placid Chateau Estates subdivision in Kenner have awakened the past few weeks to explosions and car chases as the movie "Unhinged," starring Russell Crowe, is filmed along their manicured cul-de-sacs. The road-rage thrill…
It happened at Schwegmann’s. This was a long time ago, back when Charisse Gibson was a kid of about 10. But she remembers it happened at the grocery store, the one on Bullard Road.
Isaac Toups is bringing a kinder, albeit no less serious, attitude to helping failing restaurants on “Kitchen Takeover,” premiering at 10 p.m. Saturday (Aug. 3) on the Food Network.
In late June, New Orleans artist Robert Tannen spent $6,000 to purchase a retired 30-foot lifeboat. The hazard-orange vessel was built to hold 74 crewmen, in case their freighter sank beneath them. Tannen found the boat for sale in the parking lot…
Once upon a time, regional cinema thrived in America.
Fans of the "Breaking Bad" television series lined up for nearly a block at the entrance to the Napoleon House in the French Quarter on Friday (July 19) for a chance to do a little day drinking with the crime series’ most adorable bad guys.
When Stacey Hunt found out that Keanu Reeves was filming on location in her Slidell neighborhood this week, the mother of three said she had a hard time getting anything done as she scanned the street to see if she could spot the star in the strea…
THE HOUSE: A one-story brick home in Gretna
From the moment Chris Greene appears in the first episode of Season 4 of USA’s hit show, “Queen of the South," you know there’s trouble brewing for Teresa Mendoza.
You can see the imprint of New Orleans, his hometown, in Louis Prima’s irrepressible stage performances. Often, he and his band jumped around and hammed it up so exuberantly that it was hard for people to see the level of his true musicianship. “P…
Opening two months after the Avengers’ grand finale, “Avengers: Endgame,” “Spider-Man: Far from Home” puts young Peter Parker in the superhero driver’s seat. His mentor, the late Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, has officially passed the protecting-the-E…
Without question, the first thing the producers of the newest "Spider-Man" movie series did right was casting Tom Holland as teenage webslinger Peter Parker. Filled with an awkward, wide-eyed earnestness -- and more self-doubt than the average rea…
For many people, throwing a knife at Simon Cowell is the chance of a lifetime. Fortunately for aspiring showbiz stars, the acerbic TV talent judge escaped unharmed from "America’s Got Talent" auditions, broadcast Tuesday night.
With popcorn and soda in hand, moviegoers have been swarming to see summer blockbusters such as “Avengers: Endgame,” “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum” and “Aladdin.” But to be honest, nothing beats a nostalgic, big-screen classic summer movie. W…