Sean Astin’s performance as Samwise Gamgee represents the beating heart of Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. It’s an iconic performance for many fans, capped off by Astin’s powerful Mount Doom speech in which Samwise tells Frodo, “I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you!” Suffice to say, Jackson’s “Rings”…

Pelé, the global soccer star that popularized the sport on an international level, died Thursday, the Associated Press reported. He was 82. The Brazilian ex-player had spent nearly a month at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo due to his colon cancer worsening and was recently put under elevated care due to kidney and…

Much of the winter shopping craze sets in before the holidays but there’s a second — perhaps more exciting — shopping boom that sets in during that liminal space between Christmas and New Years. It’s a time to reward yourself for doing your part during the giving season and buy yourself a little gift of…

When “Everything Everywhere All At Once” premiered last spring, Alamo Drafthouse offered special screenings where attendees were gifted with packets of googly eyes. The peepers were a reference to a central character’s habit of putting the gag item on everyone and everything he can. Then when “Nope,” Jordan Peele’s twisty horror film, opened in July,…