Adventure junkie and his beloved rescue dog spend their days scaling mountains, wading through rivers and camping in the SNOW – and even live in a motor home to be closer to the outdoors Michael Dietrich, 28, of Edmonton, Canada, spends half his week adventuring  The personal trainer enjoys hiking, camping and exploring with his rescue dog  Michael and BearBear […]

A likable enough, Amblin-esque update to the classic Arthurian legend, “The Kid Who Would Be King” is hardly the first time a group of adolescents have saved England from supernatural harm in a Joe Cornish movie. That said, much of the attitude and originality that drew fans to the irreverent writer-director’s inner-city alien-invasion debut, “Attack the Block” — wherein underdog […]

A few months before the film version of “The Sound of Music” hit the silver screen, a song plugger working the catalog of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein approached label owner Dave Kapp with a plan to turn one of the songs from the score into a hit single, thinking it would boost the box office potential of the movie. […]

Golf on the NHS? Are they trying to kill us all off! RICHARD LITTLEJOHN on the NHS’s ‘gimmick’ plan to prescribe social activities to battle loneliness and depression Never mind interminable waiting lists, the annual winter flu crisis and ‘savage Tory cuts’. The NHS has come up with a wizard wheeze to improve the health of the nation. Golf lessons. The […]

Are exercise trackers the plague of our age? Self-confessed ‘Fitbit bore’ EDWARD LUCAS on how counting steps is taking over people’s lives My eyes lit up. There it was, the gadget I’d been lusting after for months and dropping hints about for weeks in the run up to Christmas. At last a Fitbit of my own. It wasn’t that I […]

NBC has given a pilot order to a single-camera project starring Kal Penn. Penn also co-wrote the untitled project with Matt Murray, with both attached as executive producers. It follows former New York City Councilman Garrett Shah (Penn), who finds his calling when faced with six recent immigrants in need of his help and in search of the American Dream. […]

Tech monolith Apple made its first purchase at the 2019 Sundance film festival, in the coming-of-age drama “Hala.” The film, from writer-director Minhal Baig and executive producer Jada Pinkett Smith, sold for an undisclosed amount. It is unclear if the company intends to send it straight to the iTunes store or roll the drama out in theaters. Baig’s project centers […]

Workout junkies, beware: Your beloved spin/barre/yoga/boxing/boot-camp class could be hurting you more than it’s helping you. “If you’re going to high-intensity classes three-plus days a week, and your recovery [time] isn’t there, you’re setting yourself up for burnout syndrome,” physical therapist Corinne Croce, 36, tells The Post. She says the condition develops from putting repetitive stress on the same parts […]

A Girl Scout’s work is never done. Mackenzie Hancsicsak, who plays young Kate Pearson on the NBC hit This Is Us, attended the Screen Actors Guild Awards alongside much of the show’s cast in Los Angeles on Sunday, January, 27, but she wasn’t about to let a silly awards ceremony get in the way of her real work – selling […]

While the rest of Hollywood was taking in the Screen Actors Guild Awards this weekend, some have descended on Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival. This includes the cast of the forthcoming art-world drama Velvet Buzzsaw, the second collaboration between stars Rene Russo and Jake Gyllenhaal and director Dan Gilroy after 2014’s Nightcrawler; it also stars Natalia Dyer […]