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The manager says it faces challenges in funding the capital expenditures that many of its properties require The managers of Acrophyte Hospitality Trust are considering temporarily…
In K-pop, the fans come first, or so catchy South Korean music acts are constantly telling the legions of dedicated followers who have propelled them to international stardom. If it…
There was a good share of on-stage comedy happening at Rhiannon Giddens‘ all-star roots music night Wednesday at the Hollywood Bowl. That much was assured, with Ed Helms hosting the…
Prison dramas usually fall into three categories: They’re either tales of violent intrigue, redemption or a rocky road through one to the other. “Inside” has a different feel, since its…
Kudos to Haim, first of all, for the best album title of the year. Breakup albums are so common that it’s surprising no one previously had the temerity and/or genius to name such a record…
After two long years, Star Trek: Strange New Worldsis returning later this summer. The first five episodes were sent out for review well in advance of the Season 3 premiere, which falls…
Bustling at a colorful intersection of music, family, and identity, Anderson .Paak’s filmmaking debut “K-Pops!” is an instantly likable affair. You don’t really have to know anything about…
Time heals no wounds in “Brand New Landscape,” an outwardly gentle but subtly cutting domestic drama that begins as a snapshot of a family adrift, fast-forwards to one of a family severed,…
A chamber piece about long-term relationship woes, Nora Kirkpatrick’s feature debut “A Tree Fell in the Woods” rests on the considered performances of its four lead actors, who play…
Whether it’s because notions like truth and fairness demand more attention than ever in a chaotically unjust world, or because some cinematic traditions need revitalizing, filmmakers have…
The protruding belly getting its closeup early in “She Runs the World” belongs to Allyson Felix, the world’s most decorated track star. It’s 2018, Felix is 32 and pregnant for the first…
Movies rarely come more generic than French-Canadian filmmaker Maxime Giroux’s “In Cold Light,” an exhaustingly paced action-thriller where every idea and visual seems templated and…
One of the great misfortunes of human life is the fact that much of it is spent in a constant state of worry. Are we doing the right things to reach our potential? Is it too late to start…
How to Train Your Dragon, released in 2010, was a massive hit, which subsequently led to two sequels, four shorts, and two television series spanning over 100 episodes, keeping fans…
Fifteen years doesn’t seem very long to wait before doing a nearly scene-for-scene remake of an animated blockbuster. In the case of DreamWorks’ “How to Train Your Dragon,” that’s the same…
There is a term for the sparsely populated swath of France that extends southwest from the borders of Belgium and Luxembourg to the Pyrenees: the “empty diagonal” (“diagonale du vide“).…
You could say that Marcel Pagnol’s movies are defined by the faces he cast, none more distinctive than that of Raimu, a music-hall legend turned big-screen star whom Orson Welles called…
For anyone craving some classic Julianne Moore energy, director Michael Pearce’s “Echo Valley” feels like a throwback to the fierce copper-coifed star’s early career. Before “Short Cuts”…
It’s the rare pop star who doesn’t use his or her sexuality in some way. But the current moment, typified by stars like Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, and Charli XCX, tends to be about…
Two years ago, a tragedy caught the world’s attention … but not in a particularly sympathetic way. The fatal implosion of submersible Titan on its descent to the deep-sea tourist…
In a historic legal decision last year, a Michigan jury found the parents of a 15-year-old school shooter responsible for the deaths their son had caused. Could they have prevented it?…
“Deep Cover” opens on a quote — the adage that in comedy, as in battle, you must be prepared to die if you want to kill — that is low-hanging fruit for any snarky critics seeking an easy…
Even diehard fans of the tireless Tyler Perry sometimes wish he’d slow down a bit to focus on quality over quantity. But Netflix feature “Straw” has a cultural pulse-taking urgency that…
Not since Paul Schrader’s ill-starred “Exorcist” entry “Dominion” in 2004 has an exorcism-centric thriller taken itself quite so seriously as “The Ritual.” Based on a real-life case, like…
