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Of all the movie protagonists you might have seen this year, none is quite like Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s Pansy in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.” Pansy, a middle-aged woman in contemporary London, is foul-tempered from beginning to end.

“A Complete Unknown” certainly lives up to its title. You are hardly closer to understanding the soul of Bob Dylan after watching more than two hours of this moody look at America's most enigmatic troubadour.

Environment Canada is warning about a procession of storms that are expected to bring powerful winds and heavy rain to British Columbia's coast over Christmas.

The Rev. Shannon Blosser sees how his son loves church — the music, the singing, the communion. But the United Methodist pastor said his family hasn’t always felt like 11-year-old Noah, who is autistic , has been welcome.

NEW YORK (AP) — John Mulaney's second trip to Broadway took little convincing. He didn't even need to look at the script before signing on. “I was like, ‘OK, well, send it to me. I’ll read it.’ And they sent it to me. I didn’t read it.

Drawn by sheer possibility and that magic, golden-hour light of Los Angeles, Zoe Ann Weiss moves from London to California when she gets her two-book-deal break.

To get a sense of Margaret Eby’s new book, “You Gotta Eat: Real-Life Strategies for Feeding Yourself When Cooking Feels Impossible,” flip to the section called “Anything’s a sandwich if you’re not a coward.

Stepping onto the set of “Squid Game” season two, Lee Jung-jae felt like he had never left. “Including promotion, I'd been living with Gi-hun for about two years," said Lee in a recent interview.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 29-Jan. 4: Dec. 29: Actor Jon Voight is 86. Singer Marianne Faithfull is 78. Actor Ted Danson is 77. Singer-actor Yvonne Elliman is 73. Actor Patricia Clarkson is 65. Comedian Paula Poundstone is 65.

Pasticceria Gollini in Vignola, Italy, not far from Modena, is home to the sumptuous flourless chocolate cake known as torta Barozzi.