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By Chloe Melas, CNN Jennifer Lopez has nothing but love for Ben Affleck. The singer, actress and entrepreneur told People Magazine she is not bothered by the comments her boyfriend made about being “trapped” in his marriage to Jennifer Garner. “This story is simply not true,” Lopez said. “It is not how I feel.” Adding,

By Scottie Andrew, CNN They weren’t meant to be heroes. Frodo Baggins, his steadfast companion Samwise Gamgee and their accidental journey-mates, jejune cousins Merry and Pippin, could have been content living out their days in the Shire with their fellow hobbits, feasting and smoking in pastoral comfort. But when a mission that would determine the

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN There’s no shortage of pure holiday movie cheese to unwrap this year. Netflix has a Scotland-based love story with “A Castle for Christmas” and the third (!!) installment of its “Princess Switch” franchise. BET+ has drama-filled family fun with “A Jenkins Family Christmas.” HBO Max, which like CNN is owned by

By Chloe Melas, CNN “What do you want to tell Joe Byron right now?” That famous TikTok video — which went viral over the last few months from the Side Talk NYC Instagram show featuring rapper Gorilla Nems — has made its way to the White House. The Jonas Brothers posted a video of themselves

By Marianne Garvey Julia Roberts delivered the ultimate photo bomb while George Clooney was appearing virtually on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” While Clooney was talking about his new movie, “The Tender Bar,” which he directed, Roberts slid into the frame sitting in a chair with sunglasses on. She didn’t say a word then slid out of

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN A “new” song by Aaliyah has hit the airwaves, two decades after her death. “Poison,” which also features Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd, was unveiled on Friday, marking her first release since 2012’s “Enough Said.” Aaliyah sings the lines: “How can I explain myself to you? Questions keep lurking through my mind.

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Peloton has pulled an ad featuring Chris Noth in the wake of sexual assault allegations against him. “Every single sexual assault accusation must be taken seriously,” a spokesperson for the company said in a statement provided to CNN. “We were unaware of these allegations when we featured Chris Noth in

By Brian Lowry, CNN For those needing additional evidence that streaming has thrown a lifeline to movies for grownups, look no further than this weekend, which brings three of them, with two hitting theaters for reasons that have more to do with award requirements than commerce. Each of those films come with the pedigree of

By Marianne Garvey The first trailer for “How I Met Your Father” is here. The “How I Met Your Mother” spinoff series for Hulu tells the story of how Sophie, played by Kim Cattrall, meets her son’s father. Cattrall appears in the trailer, saying, “This is the story of how I met your father. It

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Director/co-writer Guillermo del Toro veers out of his customary lane in “Nightmare Alley,” a gorgeous-looking but narratively flawed movie that at its best evokes the lurid thrillers of the 1940s while meandering too much in between. Bradley Cooper fills the central role, but Cate Blanchett steals the show as a

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Which pill will you take, love it or hate it? “The Matrix Resurrections” has received it’s first batch of reactions and even folks who enjoyed it are aware that not everyone will. Vox’s critic Emily VanDerWerff took just that stance. “I lovvvvvvved it. A lotta people are gonna haaaaaaaate,” VanDerWerff

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN The trailer for “The Lost City” might be the best one you watch all year. No trailer this year has filled me with as much anticipatory glee as this one. In the film, Sandra Bullock plays a reclusive author Loretta Sage who, after years of writing adventures, finds herself in the

By Lisa Respers France and Chloe Melas, CNN Actor Chris Noth is denying allegations of sexual misconduct against him published in a report Thursday by The Hollywood Reporter. Two women, who used pseudonyms in the THR story to protect their privacy, accuse Noth of sexually assaulting them. The alleged incidents occurred in 2004 in Los

By Chloe Melas, CNN Nick Cannon is opening up more about grieving his late son, Zen. The television host and actor appeared on NBC’s “Today” show on Thursday to discuss Zen’s tragic death. The infant, who was just five months old, died earlier this month of a from a brain tumor. “You pray for miracles,”

By Chloe Melas, CNN Britney Spears appears to have welcomed a new addition to her family. The singer took to Instagram on Wednesday and teased her fans by posting a video of herself rocking what appeared to be a baby, with her back turned to the camera while holding a baby bottle. She captioned it,

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Ben Affleck is trying to set the record straight. After giving an expansive interview on Howard Stern’s radio show, Affleck faced backlash over some of the comments he made about his marriage to actress Jennifer Garner and how their troubles contributed to his alcoholism, saying if they hadn’t split in 2015,

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN It’s a Christmas miracle for “Ted Lasso” fans. If you’re missing the Richmond gang, Apple TV+ on Wednesday released a stop-motion animated short that will help fill the Ted-shaped hole in your heart this holiday season. In the short, Ted and the gang go on a search after Ted’s iconic mustache

By Marianne Garvey There is a new official music video for George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord.” The video, which comes 51 years after the song’s release, stars former Beatle Ringo Starr, along with a slew of musicians, actors and comedians who make cameos. Joe Walsh and Jeff Lynne, who played with Harrison in the Traveling

By Radhika Marya, CNN The holiday season is one for time-honored traditions: Baking cookies, decorating, gathering with family and friends — and blasting holiday music. Whether on the radio, over a store’s loudspeaker or via a curated streaming playlist, you’ll likely hear many of the same songs in rotation, from Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” to

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Not even asking Santa is going to get us a Mariah Carey and Beyoncé match up on Verzuz. The now famous franchise brings together music artists to “battle” with their hits. Recently super producer L.A. Reid shared during an appearance on “The Real” that Carey and Bey would be his

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Remember the old days, when “Saturday Night Live” sketches kept becoming movies, with a few hits (“Wayne’s World”) and way more misses (“A Night at the Roxbury,” “Ladies Man,” “It’s Pat,” etc.)? Now one of those, “MacGruber,” makes the trip back to TV, offering an unnecessary reminder that not everything

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Two years after its debut “The Witcher” returns to Netflix, looking every bit as brawny as its maiden flight and less messy structurally. Although the series developed a solid following (unlike some of the streamer’s other recent fantasy efforts that met the executioner’s ax), the show remains uneven and somewhat