Author: OCCLIPPER Editorial Team

Moments after the final rapid-fire rhythm of Anthrax’s opening number “Caught in a Mosh” fades from the open air of the Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, N.J., shaggy-headed vocalist Joey Belladonna addresses the audience. “I gotta ask everybody out there right now. Who’s never seen Anthrax before?” Around half of the 6,000-or-so crowd members who…

Who could have predicted that Peter Farrelly would make the fan favorite of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival? Everyone who voted for “Green Book” eight years ago. Even at the time, “Green Book” got justly mocked as a feel-good flick that already felt out of touch, the second coming of “Driving Miss Daisy.” Yet,…

Kit Harington has faced backlash since joining HBO’s “Harry Potter” series amid ongoing calls to boycott author J.K. Rowling. The actor got candid Wednesday in an interview with “Today” about why he’s doing it anyway. “I’ve been a lifelong Harry Potter fan,” Harington told anchor Craig Melvin about his personal connection to the franchise. “I…

At this year’s TIFF, audiences rallied around underdog stories, many of them involving actors going the distance. (Cue the “Rocky” theme.) And while an Oscar front-runner or two may have been unofficially coronated, we found plenty else to like — particularly these nine movies we’ll be taking home and mulling over in the weeks ahead.…

Great Park Live has announced an expansive 2026 live events calendar alongside major venue upgrades that significantly scale up Irvine’s flagship outdoor entertainment destination.

After his existential suburban horror epic “Weapons” became an Oscar winner (for Amy Madigan’s chilling supporting performance as Aunt Gladys), filmmaker Zach Cregger has dashed off a fun little riff on one of his favorite video games. His “Resident Evil” reboot is the eighth film in the big-screen franchise based on the Japanese zombie survival…

Somewhere in the overlap between William Friedkin’s 1977 action thriller “Sorcerer” and Kelly Reichardt’s 2020 Pacific Northwest pioneer indie “First Cow” lies Padraic McKinley’s directorial debut “The Weight.” “Sorcerer” is about a group of fugitives driving a load of dynamite across the jungle; “The Weight” follows a group of Depression-era convicts transferring gold through the…

President Trump declared Friday that he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House “effective immediately,” an extraordinary escalation in his ongoing feud with the news media. The action marks the latest salvo in a campaign against the press that has already won him multimillion-dollar settlements from two networks, put ABC’s broadcast…

The staging is simple. A circle of nine stately wood chairs on a bare stage. Four actors, affixed with in-ear monitors, occupy different seats as testimony is elicited, provided and undermined. The Senate Judiciary Committee is back in session in “The Ford/Hill Project,” now at REDCAT through Saturday. What follows is some of the most…

Kim Kardashian grapples with a health scare that hits close to home in a new trailer for “The Kardashians.” The reality star and fashion mogul reveals in the reality series’ Season 8 trailer released Thursday that she has been diagnosed with esophagitis. “I have something called esophagitism,” Kim tells a stylist in the trailer. The…