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Fans and critics may disagree over when exactly the “Fast & Furious” franchise jumped the shark, but there is only one correct answer: When the Pontiac Fiero went into space.

Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco wanted to make a movie for and about his father. Salvo Maniscalco had immigrated from Sicily to America in 1960 when he was 15. At 18, he became a hairdresser and raised and supported a family in Chicago.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Throughout his life, Paul Schrader has had a complicated relationship with Christianity.

Paul Schrader plants the seeds of an intriguing melodrama in his latest creation “ Master Gardener .” Sigourney Weaver is a wealthy dowager with a stately name (Norma Haverhill), a large house and a dog she’s named porch dog.

NEW YORK (AP) — Rainn Wilson wanted to find inner happiness. So he got on a plane. Many planes.

CANNES, France (AP) — In Steve McQueen's “Occupied City,” a young woman with an even voice narrates, with rigorous specificity, Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II.

NEW YORK (AP) — Activist and best-selling author Naomi Klein has a book coming out in September that will combine personal reflections with political reporting and cultural commentary.

NEW YORK (AP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, encouraged women to find inspiration to fight for equity as she accepted the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Award Tuesday night, with Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown.

TORONTO — “Canada’s Got Talent” is increasing its top prize to $1 million.

“The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece," by Tom Hanks (Knopf) There may be no one better suited to tell the tale of how a movie gets made than Hollywood icon and master of the motion picture Tom Hanks.