Arts

Almost everyone knows what it’s like to face insurmountable odds—to feel ineffective, unable to see a way out, doubtful that the struggle to prevail is even worth the fight. Sometimes...

A policeman’s widow picks up her late husband’s badge in the noir-inflected thriller “Santosh” from British-Indian writer-director Sandhya Suri, whose background in documentary gives this moody character study slash crime...

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...