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The best genre movies of 2025
“28 Years Later” We look at the finest in science fiction, horror, action and international films, all available to stream. SCIENCE FICTION Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later” smartly, splashily refreshed the zombie genre by depicting a future in which Britain, overrun by a horrific virus and cordoned off from the rest of the world, has regressed into a preindustrial society. You could see this latest installment in the series as a bonkers, stylistically brilliant Brexit allegory,

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Dec 18, 20254 min read


As Archie Bunker’s foil, Rob Reiner brought politics home
Rob Reiner as Michael Stivic in the 1970s TV sitcom “All in the Family” (Facebook via The Kitsch Meow) By JAMES PONIEWOZIK Before red and blue America, before MAGA and the resistance, before our current blue-collar and white-collar political sorting, there was Archie Bunker and Michael Stivic. “All in the Family,” which stormed onto American TV sets in 1971, was a showcase for Carroll O’Connor as the blustering, bigoted Archie. But it takes two to have an argument. And as Mic

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Dec 17, 20254 min read


Rob Reiner, actor who went on to direct classic films, dies at 78
Rob Reiner, right, arrives with his wife Michele at the memorial services for Nora Ephron at Lincoln Center in New York, July 9, 2012. A son of the couple, Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested after the celebrated Hollywood director and his wife were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Sunday, according to online jail records viewed Monday. (Richard Perry/The New York Times) Monday. By JULIA JACOBS Rob Reiner, the son of a pioneering television comedian who became a popular sitc

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Dec 16, 20254 min read


Raul Malo, frontman of the Mavericks, dies at 60
Raul Malo, the Mavericks frontman, performs at a festival in Indio, Calif. on May 5, 2007. Malo, a lush-voiced singer whose expansive, Latin-inflected sound breathed new life into country music in the 1990s, died on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025 after a battle with colon cancer. He was 60. (Heidi Schumann/The New York Times) By BILL FRISKICS-WARREN Raul Malo, the big-voiced singer and principal songwriter for the Mavericks, a Grammy Award-winning band whose Latin-inflected sound helpe

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Dec 15, 20254 min read


Merry little streaming
“Tyler Perry’s Finding Joy” By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI Holiday movies are an escapist bunch, but this season, reality has a way of peeking through the cracks. Of course, the stories continue to have happy resolutions — don’t worry, the Grinch still doesn’t win — but instead of glittery princesses, mindless consumption and oblivious displays of wealth, we see people who struggle to live up to expectations or throw themselves into ludicrous schemes to pay their bills. It’s not li

The San Juan Daily Star
Dec 12, 20256 min read


Children diagnosed with cancer exhibit their artwork at Capitol
During art classes at the Puerto Rico Children’s Hospital, the children and young people undergoing treatment for cancer not only created art but also expressed their emotions. By THE STAR STAFF A unique exhibition of 15 works of art created by pediatric oncology patients while undergoing treatment is now open at the island Capitol. “It fills me with great pride to announce the opening in the House of Representatives of this exhibition of artwork on canvas, created by childre

The San Juan Daily Star
Dec 11, 20252 min read


New York salsa museum officials salute El Gran Combo founder Ithier
The International Salsa Museum in New York houses various pieces of memorabilia associated with El Gran Combo, including the jacket founder Rafael Ithier Natal wore during one of the group’s famed anniversary performances. By THE STAR STAFF The president of the International Salsa Museum in New York and the entity’s board of directors are mourning the passing of Rafael Ithier Natal, founder of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico and mentor to hundreds of artists and musicians worldw

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Dec 11, 20253 min read


Golden Globe nominations confirm the allure of Warner Bros.
“The White Lotus” By NICOLE SPERLING Golden Globes voters made it clear Monday why Netflix and others want to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, as the famed studio scored 16 nominations across both film and television categories for the first of Hollywood’s annual awards shows. Warner Bros. received multiple nominations for its two big film contenders: “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another,” which received the most nominations of any film, with nine. In television, “The White Lot

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Dec 10, 20254 min read


Steve Cropper, guitarist, songwriter and a shaper of Memphis soul music
Steve Cropper had an innate feel for a groove as well as a penchant for feeling over flash. (Reddit via r/soul Impala71) By BILL FRISKICS-WARREN Steve Cropper, the prodigious guitarist, songwriter and producer who played a pivotal role in shaping the lean gutbucket soul music made at Memphis’ Stax Records in the 1960s and ’70s, died last Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 84. His death, at a rehabilitation facility, was confirmed by his wife, Angel Cropper, who did not

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Dec 9, 20255 min read


Additional performance of musical ‘Jesus, Better Than Everything’ set for Thursday
Kelianis Molina and Oniel Chaparro portray two angels, Angie and Gaby, in the musical “Jesus, Better Than Anything.” (Facebook via Enfoque Juventud PR) By THE STAR STAFF The Luz Escénica Ministry has announced a second performance of the Christian musical “Jesus, Better Than Anything,” this Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Nazarene in Dominguito, Arecibo. The ministry has received numerous calls from people wanting to see the musical, which speaks directly about the me

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Dec 8, 20252 min read
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