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‘Luca,’ Pixar’s generic (and literal) fish out of water tale, lands on Disney+

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Pixar dips into the ocean once too often with “Luca,” a colorful but thin (and literal) fish-out-of-water tale. Although the movie touches on familiar themes about friendship, overcoming differences and letting children go, there’s roughly enough story for something between an animated short and the film that lands, understandably in

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Canadian businessman and wife plead guilty to violating quarantine rules after flying to indigenous community to get Covid-19 vaccine

By Aya Elamroussi and Rebekah Riess, CNN A Canadian businessman and his wife pleaded guilty Wednesday to violating quarantine requirements after flying to a small indigenous town in the Yukon territory and allegedly posing as local workers to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. Rodney Baker, the former president and CEO of the Great Canadian Gaming Corporation,

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‘In the Heights’ reignites long-standing conversations about colorism in the Latinx community

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Franceli Chapman knows what Washington Heights looks like. The uptown Manhattan neighborhood where Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “In the Heights” takes place is where Chapman, an Afro-Latina actress with roots in the Dominican Republic, played on street corners as a child and where she hung out on rooftops as a teenager. Chapman

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