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ATLANTA — Jamie Foxx, who nearly died last year at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, returned to the city in October to tape a Netflix comedy special to talk in-depth for the first time about his medical issues. The special, "Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was...," came out Tuesday on Netflix.

The latest entry into the Kelce family cinematic universe, "Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story," is the third Kelce-adjacent Christmas movie to arrive this winter, after Hallmark’s "Christmas on Call" and Lifetime’s "Christmas in the Spotlight."

Like a broomstick hurtling from the sky, here comes the first installment of the “Wicked” movies -- and oh, I’m still catching my breath, in a very good way. Jon M.

Rachel Walker remembers as a little girl going with her sister, father and grandmother to the B&B Theatres Twin Drive-In in Independence.

It is time for a parade of holiday season fare. In theaters this week, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” wants to get on your merry ol’ to-do list ahead of buying the Thanksgiving turkey and stringing all those lights.

What: City Theatre of Independence presents the comedy musical “Disaster! The Musical,” by Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick (2011), directed by Nino Casisi and produced by special arrangement with Music Theatre International.

The Mid-Continent Public Library branches have long been a favorite stop – often in November – for Gerald Dickens during the English actor’s three decades of United States tours.

Of late, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is a somewhat confounding figure. The director of such beloved films as the “Back to the Future” series, “Forrest Gump,” “Cast Away,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” has delivered almost as many duds as hits, if you also take in “The Polar Express,” “Beowulf,” “Welcome to Marwen” and “Pinocchio.” An experimentalist obsessed with special effects and the dramatic power they can exert in cinema, Zemeckis is always trying something new, especially with motion-capture technology.

Sleek, confident and peppered with delicious portraits in pursuit, deceit and evasion, the carnival of papal intrigue known as “Conclave” works like gangbusters. It’s the best recent Agatha Christie adaptation not based on an Agatha Christie mystery, because it’s from a book by Robert Harris.