I should have known better than to turn on the television. For the second time in 15 years, my family and I had fled our foothills home. During 2009’s Station...
It’s telling that Manuel Betancourt’s new book, “Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies,” grounded in queer theory and abolition, takes its title from a line from the 2004 film “Closer,”...
As the market for documentaries and other content slowed and work dried up in Hollywood, producer Kourtney Gleason was already worried about making the mortgage payments on the home she...
It reads like a home seller’s worst nightmare: While moving into your newly purchased house and preparing your beloved current abode for market, fire sweeps through and destroys both —...
Director Christian Gudegast’s juiced-up 2018 “Heat” homage “Den of Thieves” has become a bit of a cult hit in the years since it was released, due in large part to...
Amid the devastation of downtown Pacific Palisades caused by this week’s firestorm, the Bay Theater has emerged relatively unscathed. While nearby buildings were reduced to ash, developer Rick Caruso, who...
Six months after being cleared of criminal charges in the “Rust” shooting death, actor Alec Baldwin has filed a suit alleging malicious prosecution and defamation by New Mexico prosecutors and...
Robert Laemmle, who took over running the Laemmle Theatres chain from his father, died on Thursday at age 89. Laemmle’s death was confirmed by his son Greg, the third generation...
Netflix’s Asura is a new Japanese limited series about a family of four grown daughters who discover that their father has cheated on their mother. For a decade, he has...
Judging by the content of television shows over the seven decades since the medium began, an alien race — you know they’re watching — would be justified in thinking the...