Новости за 15.02.2018

The stock market is volatile. Stocks go up and down. They boom, then bust, then boom.

Featuring appearances by Kumail Nanjiani, Pete Holmes, Nikki Glaser and many others, “Poop Talk” arrives on screen in the grand, gross tradition of “The Aristocrats.” In this documentary produced by the Sklar brothers, comedians tell one-liners and elaborate anecdotes about the bodily function...

The playground “Looking Glass” operates in should be enough to make for a satisfyingly disreputable thriller: a skeevy motel, a strained marriage, voyeurism, leather-clad kink, an unsolved murder and Nicolas Cage. But hoping for a “Red Rock West” redux — the juicy small-town noir Cage starred in...

The unnervingly talented 33-year-old writer-director Alex Ross Perry seems intent on liberating American independent cinema from the tyranny of “likable characters,” one movie at a time. The men and women moving through his brittle, blistering dark comedies stake little claim on our affection,...

El último intento de reforma migratoria, que incluia protecciones para evitar la deportación de los "Dreamers", colapsó el jueves en el Senado debido a que un proyecto de ley bipartidista que se considera tenía más posibilidades de ser aprobado, no obtuvo suficiente apoyo para avanzar.

In “The Party,” an acid-laced amuse-bouche of a movie from British writer-director Sally Potter, dinner never makes it to the table but the guests still get served, early and often. We are in the home of a London politician named Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas), who has just been appointed shadow...

For the last two high school baseball seasons, Jesse Bergin has been the ace pitcher for Studio City Harvard-Westlake. In the Southern Section Division 1 semifinals as a sophomore in 2016, he shut out No. 1-seeded JSerra 2-0.

Es, por ahora, una historia terriblemente familiar. De hecho, es la familiaridad lo que más debería horrorizarnos: un tiroteo en una escuela con una gran cantidad de personas muertas, muchas de ellas menores de edad, el resto maestros. Esta vez, es una preparatoria en Parkland, Florida, donde se...

In the field of regenerative medicine, induced pluripotent stem cells have a lot of neat tricks up their sleeves. One of them may be teaching the immune system how to beat back cancer.

Jeff Daniels will play the inimitable lawyer Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s forthcoming Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a spokesman for the production announced Thursday.

There’s a distinction to be made between old school and old hat, but it’s lost on “Honor Up,” a criminally inept throwback to ’90s urban gangsta movie posturing that plays like a stone-faced version of the 1996 Wayans brothers spoof, “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice...

Bradley Bredeweg, who’s known for co-creating and writing the drama series “The Fosters,” has paid $1.72 million for a ranch-style home in Valley Village owned by actress Lauren German.

For years, from inside a cell at Folsom State Prison, Craig Coley couldn’t get anyone to listen.

The Dodgers were one victory last fall from preempting the following sentence: It has been 30 years since the Dodgers last won the World Series.

There’s a scene in “Black Panther” — director Ryan Coogler’s breathlessly awaited Marvel Comics adaptation that promises to smash box-office records when it opens Thursday night — in which a bad guy busy raining fire from the passenger seat of a getaway car commands his driver to turn on some music.

Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is reportedly hanging it up in Silicon Valley, permanently moving to Los Angeles to escape the Bay Area’s left-leaning politics.

If further proof were needed that we are living in a golden age of animation, the arrival of this weekend's tribute to Japan's Hayao Miyazaki at the same time that Nick Park's "Early Man" hits theaters should do the trick.

The landscape of the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, a concrete universe of slightly less than three square miles in Mid-City, is a bilingual-signed jigsaw of strip malls and squat high-rises, barbecue restaurants and porridge joints. It’s about as far away from John Cheever’s Westchester...

The expelled student accused of killing 17 people at his former South Florida high school had previously trained with a white nationalist militia in the state, participating in paramilitary drills in Tallahassee, according to new details that emerged Thursday in the investigation into the deadly...

A 17-year-old boy was arrested after allegedly firing a gun in his Woodland Hills apartment and calling 911 to falsely report that three black men had tried to force their way in, police said.

Billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel has his sights set on Los Angeles, with the prominent tech investor planning to move his residence and some of his business from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Southland.

The James Beard Foundation has announced its restaurant and chef award semifinalists, and among them, chefs who have been instrumental in elevating the Los Angeles dining scene. They were chosen from a list of more than 20,000, by a group of culinary professionals and media from around the country.