"San Andreas," director Brad Peyton's earthquake action-adventure set in a crumbling California, seems to have reviewers taking cover as it hits theaters Friday. Glenn Kenny from RogerEbert.com focused on the movie's good graphics: "The direction by Brad Peyton is particularly effective during the brisk scenes of disaster, from the felling of Hoover Dam to the snapping of the Golden Gate Bridge.
"Entourage" will flash into theaters Wednesday and passé or not, the posse and its well-worn gimmicks are ever more abundant and indulgent for series creator Doug Ellin's movie adaptation, according to critics. The four years since HBO's cheeky saga "Entourage" ended in 2011 after eight high-flying seasons has seemingly been compressed into just a few weeks for its big-screen event.
A Georgia motorist is suing Bobbi Kristina Brown for severe injuries stemming from a car wreck in January, four days before the daughter of the late-Whitney Houston was discovered unconscious in a bathtub on Jan. 31. Russell J. Eckerman from Marietta, Georgia, is claiming medical bills and damages exceeding $730,000 from an accident involving Brown on Jan. 27, just days before she entered the hospital.
Presidential hopeful Donald Trump isn't waiting to be elected to start building borders. Earlier this week Trump lost Univision's support to air the pageant on July 12 after the mogul said that Mexican immigrants are "bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists." On Friday, the pageant's planned host, actress Roselyn Sanchez, resigned as Trump's employee, remarking that it would be "inconceivable" to go on hosting the show.
"Inside Out" might turn box-offices upside down. Reviewers are singing the praises of the Pixar animated film by "Up" and "Monsters, Inc." director Pete Docter as one of the studio's best ever. "Inside Out" is already garnering critical acclaim for its adult-appeal despite its PG rating, and its scores of 100 percent from Rotten Tomatoes, and 91 percent from Metacritic seem likely to hold past its wide release on June 19.
If you high-tail it right now you might make it to the last few days of Bonnaroo (June 11 - 14) in Manchester, Tennessee, to catch Mumford & Sons and Billy Joel. But if you can't, do not fret -- there are still many big music festivals left for summer 2015. Check out our quick guide to the best of the rest across the country for a sonic getaway.
Although "Ted 2" is scoring shortly on Rotten Tomatoes with 45%, many reviewers are nevertheless touting the sequel to Seth MacFarlane's 2012 surprise hit as a bowl of laughs -- as in toilet bowl. Though sufficiently well acted and packed with cameos, the sum of vulgar jokes about black-male genitalia and human rights themes is a polarizing piece of work that is delighting some and disgusting others.
A bill to honor the life and work of Elie Wiesel was approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The bill was introduced earlier this month by three congressional members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council — Reps. Steve Israel, D-N.Y.; Patrick Meehan, D-Pa., and Ted Deutch, D-Fla. Wiesel, who was well known internationally for his many books, essays and educational projects about the Holocaust, died on July 2 at 87.
Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has found a new job at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as its Rosenblatt Distinguished Visiting Fellow. The Washington Institute, an independent and nonpartisan organization that provides research and recommendations for U.S. Middle East policy, will tap into Yaalon’s 37-year a career in the Israel Defense Forces and his policy expertise from his seven years in the Knesset, it announced in a news release Thursday.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was ranked as the best university in the Middle East, according to the Center for World University Rankings based in Saudi Arabia. The center also ranked the university 26th among more than 25,000 degree-conferring universities from all over the world, it announced in a statement Monday.
More than 150 literary figures, including nine Pulitzer Prize winners, are calling for Israel to free an Arab-Israeli poet charged with inciting violence through social media. The open letter announced Tuesday in support of Dareen Tatour, who has been under house arrest since October, was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace and Adalah-NY (The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel).
President Barack Obama pledged to veto three pieces of legislation because they contain language that would scuttle implementation of the Iran nuclear deal. A White House news release on Tuesday said the bills set to pass this week by congressional Republicans, with little expected resistance from Democrats, contradict the easing of sanctions that the U.S. promised Iran in return for rolling back its nuclear program.
Yaakov Thompson, a popular Conservative rabbi in South Florida who was born Protestant and converted to Judaism in college, died suddenly at 61. Thompson’s family said the rabbi died of a heart attack on July 6. Born Rick Thompson and raised in St. Mary’s, Ohio, the future rabbi never met a Jewish person until college at Ohio State University, the Sun-Sentinel of Broward and Palm Beach counties reported.
Donald Trump has filed a $10 million lawsuit against a former campaign adviser, Sam Nunberg. The presumptive presidential Republican nominee is alleging that Nunberg, who was fired last August for racially offensive Facebook posts, may have violated his confidentiality agreement in statements to the media, an unnamed source confirmed to Mic on Wednesday.
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel sent incoming British Prime Minister Theresa May a warm welcome. The Israeli prime minister wrote May, who officially succeeded David Cameron as prime minister on Wednesday, a letter of congratulations and felicitations following her installation, his office shared in a statement.
