Calling itself “newgrass” music, Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand will bring its high energy acoustic/electric sound to Rexburg for a Christmas concert.

GENTRI is enthusiastic to come back to Idaho Falls for a Christmas show.

Here, again, is Johnny.

What started out as a one-man show decades ago, the “Forgotten Carols” has grown into a major theatrical production and holiday tradition for many.

Cops might do well to position their speed traps near movie theaters wherever the new film “Ford v Ferrari” is playing. They might fund their whole year’s budget busting speeders peeling out of the parking lots.

Picture this: A princess is in distress. It looks bad. Her dashing young man rides up in the nick of time and says, “Here I am to save you, my dear!” Actually, he doesn’t. He just says, “I’m here. Whaddya need?” She has a plan, and off they go.

Colin Mochrie says he lives an improv life not knowing what’s coming next.

The story of a little girl who possesses “wit, intelligence and psychokinetic powers” comes to life next weekend at the Civic Auditorium.

The first thing director Roland Emmerich should do after his latest movie “Midway” hits theaters is apologize.

Paul Feig’s “Last Christmas” looks every bit like your standard holiday romantic-comedy, but it has some surprises under its gauzy wrapping.

Science combines with art when the Idaho Falls Symphony performs Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” next week with the help of the Idaho National Laboratory.

The Idaho-grown band Reckless Kelly brings its brand of country-rock to the Colonial Theater next week.

It’s singing, music, dancing, splatter painting, jokes, colorful lighting and puppetry. An amalgamation of the arts.

NEW YORK (AP) — Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story,” Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell” and the Safdie brothers’ “Uncut Gems” led the 29th annual Gotham Awards with three nominations apiece, including best feature.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Cherokee actor Wes Studi was thinking about moving to Los Angeles to take a shot at being an actor in the 1980s, he asked a friend if it was a good idea. The friend said “why not? There aren’t many Native American actors.”

Who will save the “Terminator” franchise from itself? Not “Deadpool” director Tim Miller, producer James Cameron or even Linda Hamilton, it turns out.

Get ready to snicker, giggle, chuckle, laugh or even bust a gut.

Enter “The Lighthouse “ at your own risk.

“Oh good, another Hitler comedy! It’s been too long,” said no studio development executive, ever.

Regular national comedian on TV, radio, stage and film, Tom Papa will bring his humor to the Colonial Theater in Idaho Falls next week.

Will Smith is usually an asset for a movie. He’s the kind of true movie star whose charisma can elevate even the most mediocre material. You’d think then that it would be a good thing to have not just one but two Will Smiths in a movie if you can. That was at least part of the idea behind “G…

The Idaho Falls Symphony plans a busy opening day for its 70th season with an afternoon family concert and an evening masquerade concert.

The words “inspired by real events” are some of the first you see on screen in “Lucy in the Sky .” But that loose tie to reality becomes more of a noose than a help for the story that director Noah Hawley is trying to tell.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — There may be no such thing as bad publicity, but the spotlight on “Joker” is testing the limits of that old cliche.

The “Downton Abbey “ movie isn’t exactly a movie. It’s more like another season of the popular “Masterpiece Classic” show that’s been condensed to 90 minutes instead of 8 hours.

Renée Zellweger is so undeniably perfect as Judy Garland that it almost makes up for the shortcomings of the film around it. “Judy “ is itself a fine and imperfect look at some of Garland’s last years of life, but it really should have been something transcendent — Zellweger’s performance de…

Hollywood often has a fraught time trying to depict Wall Street venality. It’s understandable: Complex financial securities don’t easily translate to film.

Television/Broadway star and music maker Kristin Chenoweth will take the stage at the Colonial Theater in October for “An Intimate Evening.”

Having stayed rigorously close to his native New York for much of his career, writer-director James Gray has lately been making up for lost time. His last film, “The Lost City of Z,” journeyed into the Amazon, circa early 20th century. His latest, “Ad Astra,” skitters across the solar system…

For the new animated movie “Abominable,” bringing a big city in China to life with accuracy means that even the trash has to look right. Chinese animators collaborating with DreamWorks animators urged them to dump metal trash cans from backdrops because “we don’t have metal trash cans.”

Playing the role of Paul Simon in the show “The Simon & Garfunkel Story,” Taylor Bloom said he has a hard time picking his favorite songs.

The Glenn Miller Orchestra keeps its popularityyear after year and decade after decade because the songs it plays are timeless.

The Greater Yellowstone Crane Festival in Teton Valley features tours, workshops, presentations and film topped off with a community-wide celebration of at the Driggs City Center Plaza. It’s a week-long send-off for the bird about to make its fall migration south.

TORONTO (AP) — As a big-budget original movie made largely with practical effects, “Ford v Ferrari” isn’t so much pointed against headwinds in Hollywood as it is speeding 200 miles-per-hour right into them.

Everything is beautiful in John Crowley’s adaptation of “The Goldfinch,” even the grilled cheese sandwich that a kind stranger makes for a boy who has just lost his mother. It’s easy to get swept up by the refined stateliness surrounding this messy odyssey of grief and trauma. But like its w…

VENICE, Italy (AP) — “Ad Astra” looks and sounds like a space epic with a movie star lead in Brad Pitt, but there’s a lot more going on beneath the surface.

Acclaimed musicians, ballerinas, vocalists and violinists fill out the lineup for Brigham Young University-Idaho’s Center Stage Performing Arts Series this fall.

It can be a cheesy thing when a novel is split up and spread out over a handful of films, but Stephen King’s “It” is not one of those books.

The Idaho Falls Symphony is inviting eastern Idaho to a free dance party at Freeman Park.

Getting in shape and putting your life together usually, at the movies, passes in a montage. But for many, the non-Rocky legions of us, such transformations require more than inspiring theme music and lifting weights in the snow. And for the Brittany (Jillian Bell) of “Brittany Runs a Marath…

FRIDAY, AUGUST 30