Новости за 16.11.2017

Writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein will always have a tough time topping “Teeth,” the sensational body-horror film he released to critical acclaim a decade ago. But Lichtenstein gets close to matching that cult favorite with “Angelica,” a Victorian gothic melodrama that — like “Teeth” — features...

The painfully tone-deaf coming-of-age romance “Almost Friends” feels like a relic of a bygone era, when movies could casually present stalking and coercion as acceptable forms of courtship. Written and directed by Jake Goldberger without seeing the “nice guy”-style entitlement for the toxic, outdated...

There was a time when high school basketball coaches used to toss and turn in bed, dreaming that a center would show up on campus, perhaps the next Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or Shaquille O’Neal.

In his four-decade-long career, Denzel Washington has played heroes and villains, ministers and miscreants and everything in between. "Roman J. Israel, Esq." is not like any of them, not even close.

The New Orleans native talks about being in two award season contenders, "Mudbound" and "Detroit" as well as the upcoming "The Chi" Showtime series.

Rose McGowan surrendered Tuesday to law enforcement in Virginia in response to a warrant for her arrest on a drug-possession charge stemming from a January incident at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C.The actress, who's been vocal in her rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein,...

On June 18, 1994, two masked men armed with assault rifles entered a pub in Loughinisland, a village in County Down, Northern Ireland, where locals had gathered to watch the Irish Republic trounce Italy in the World Cup. The assailants opened fire, killing six patrons, all of them Catholic men,...

Sen. Al Franken apologized Thursday after a Los Angeles radio show anchor said that he had forcibly kissed her and later groped her on a 2006 USO tour, actions that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said should trigger a sexual harassment investigation.Leeann Tweeden, a news anchor on KABC-AM's...

At first, Erin Courtney’s play “A Map of Virtue” presents itself as a quirky love story: Sarah (Megan Branch) and Mark (Sam T. West) stand side by side onstage and deliver alternating accounts of the first time they saw each other, as if answering an unseen interviewer’s questions.

“What could possibly cause doughnuts to become bloodthirsty killers?” That question — spoken aloud, in an over-earnest deadpan — is the creme filling in the center of “Attack of the Killer Donuts,” the latest example of the “Sharknado”-style horror-comedy subgenre best called “trash for trash’s...

Running barely more than an hour (plus closing credits), “Oasis” plays like a short film stretched to minimal feature length. But that’s only one of this potentially intriguing movie’s issues.

It’s the end of the world as we know it — once again — in “Revolt,” a propulsive, no-nonsense sci-fi thriller that’s far more watchable than its generic title may imply.

To the editor: Heaven help us. Now, despite mounting claims of Roy Moore’s decades-old sexual acts with minor girls, many evangelicals seem fine with electing the Alabama Republican to the U.S. Senate. (“Roy Moore’s alleged pursuit of a young girl is the symptom of a larger problem in evangelical...

Rose McGowan surrendered Tuesday to law enforcement in Virginia in response to a warrant for her arrest on a drug-possession charge stemming from a January incident at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C.The actress, who's been vocal in her rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein,...

The spark igniting the gentle blaze of “The Divine Order,” Switzerland’s submission to the foreign-language Oscar race, is a jaw-dropping historical fact: In 1971, Swiss women were still fighting for the right to vote.

The first day of Kit Reed’s advanced fiction class, sitting in the yellow Victorian house I would come to know simply as “Lawn Avenue,” was my first time for so many things. I had never been taught by a professor in her own home, for example, and I remember I couldn’t stop looking at it all. I...

Facebook has launched a new video app called Creators aimed at building a community of closely-followed producers like YouTubers, the company announced Thursday.

With college basketball facing a nationwide bribery and corruption case, the Pac-12 Conference held the initial meeting of a task force designed to address systemic issues facing all college sports.

The Ducks picked up a much-needed victory Wednesday with a 4-2 defeat of the Boston Bruins at Honda Center. The first line came alive, with some big contributions from Corey Perry, Rickard Rakell and Derek Grant.

Most California Republicans joined House colleagues Thursday to approve a tax overhaul expected to have broad negative effects on Californians’ taxes. Several said they supported the bill because they think the Senate will make it better.

Travelers headed out of Los Angeles International Airport to other countries may find security screening lines moving a bit faster this holiday season because of a new system for moving bins of personal items to the X-ray machines.