Actress Carrie Fisher of “Star Wars” fame was in critical condition Friday after suffering a “cardiac episode” during a flight from London to Los Angeles, according to airline and emergency officials. Fisher, 60, was rushed to UCLA Medical Center by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics shortly...
Near the beginning of Martin Scorsese’s shattering “Silence,” two young Jesuit missionaries shiver in a cottage far from their Portuguese homeland, taking shelter from the rain and the watchful eyes of those to whom they have sought to bring their gospel. The year is 1639, and Japan is in the midst...
The A&E network has announced that it is pulling a reality show about the Ku Klux Klan, which was set to air next month, after executives discovered that outside producers for the series paid members of the group for their participation. The network said that “Escaping the KKK,” a series about...
The performance begins with coffee. Artist Harry Gamboa Jr. is distributing cold brews, flat whites, pour-overs and espresso to a dapper crew of roughly two dozen performers — clad in everything from business suits to green lipstick — who have all materialized at 2 p.m. at the Blue Bottle Coffee...
So much for there being a lot of space in the galaxy. “Rogue One"” quashed most movie rebellions Friday, while Universal was whistling a happy tune with “Sing,” as the two films are dominating all wide releases this holiday weekend. In its second weekend of release, “Rogue One” took in about $20...
Director Guillermo del Toro certainly knows his monsters. He’s choreographed battles between kaijus and giant robots; guided the heavy fist of Hellboy; filmed vampires, ghosts, even mythical fauns. But the creator’s next monstrous muse is something a little more common, the troll. In the world...
It’s the holidays! A good time for a bit of Shakespeare, some “Amelie” and John Adams’ “El Niño.” I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s most intriguing (and furriest) cultural stories: Happy Holidays! The official art dogs of The Times wish you peace and...
New on Blu-ray “American Honey” (Lionsgate DVD, $19.98; Blu-ray, $24.99; also available on VOD) There are two movies happening at once in writer-director Andrea Arnold’s sprawling road picture “American Honey.” One is a half-hearted exposé of “magazine crews,” those pods of underclass youngsters...
A dead man floats in a pool. What happened? “Before you hear it all distorted and blown out of proportion, before those Hollywood columnists get their hands on it,” says the narrator, “maybe you’d like to hear the facts, the whole truth.” The eerie and elegant opening to Billy Wilder’s “Sunset...
From Deadpool to OJ: Made in America, Hamilton to Sturgill Simpson, 2016 was a year of some pretty rich and unexpected pop-culture. But there’s one element many of the phenomena had in common: they all combined realms that had rarely lived together before. History met hip-hop, a TV series about...
Without someone deciding to attempt a smart — sometimes unlikely — combination, much of what we admire wouldn’t exist. Absent DeAndre Jordan, Chris Paul would just be lobbing to empty air. The latest Korean American fusion dish would be a lonely hamburger dreaming longingly of kimchi slaw. The...
British-born filmmaker Garth Jenning radiates an earnest enthusiasm, tinged with an ironic self-awareness, both in conversation and in his work. He makes his animated feature debut with the film “Sing,” in which a koala bear named Buster Moon (voiced by Matthew McConaughey) tries to draw an audience...
Today in Entertainment: Actress Carrie Fisher in critical condition after a cardiac episode on a plane Dec. 23, 2016, 4:58 p.m. Here's what's new and interesting in the world of entertainment and the arts today: Actress Carrie Fisher is in critical condition after a cardiac episode on flight from...
Two people aboard a flight from London to Los Angeles said via social media that they saw Carrie Fisher stop breathing before the plane landed at LAX. On Friday, airport police responded to calls of an unresponsive female passenger on board. Emergency officials confirmed that that passenger was...
SERIES Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks It’s up to the titular Time Lord to save the day once again in the conclusion of this six-part series that used animation to re-create some long-lost 1960s-era episodes of the venerable British sci-fi drama. 11 p.m. BBC America SPECIALS Huntington Park...
SUNDAY Get toasty! Images of a blazing “Yule Log” are accompanied by holiday music in two annual telecasts. 6 a.m. KTLA, KCAL Get frisky! Puppies and kitties cavort in front of a “Super Cute Yule Log” to the strains of holiday music in this new special. 7, 8 and 9 a.m. Animal Planet The annual...
Meryl Streep and Viggo Mortensen earned early accolades at the Golden Globes and SAG Awards nominations. Will Oscar voters follow their lead? Should they follow their lead? Welcome to the Gold Standard, the newsletter from the Los Angeles Times that helps guide you through the ins and outs of the...
UNDERRATED André Holland in “Moonlight”: Already familiar for his scene-stealing work in Showtime’s “The Knick,” Holland is a standout among the beautifully nuanced performances in Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight.” The film’s Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris have already garnered attention in the run-up...
“Feels like I’ve been here before,” Trent Reznor sings on the new EP by Nine Inch Nails, and that’s probably because he has. Released late Thursday, just a week after Reznor revealed he had made it, “Not the Actual Events” represents the latest in a series of comebacks for this influential industrial-rock...
SERIES Terry Crews Saves Christmas This limited series, in which the “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star helps everyday folks plan their holiday parties, ends its run with a pair of new episodes. 8 and 9 p.m. KTLA Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives It’s all about meat as Guy Fieri’s foodie travelogue wraps another...
Guillermo del Toro, the horror art-movie director, has created a cartoon series, "Trollhunters," based on the 2015 young adult novel of the same name he wrote with Daniel Kraus ("The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch"). Produced by DreamWorks Animation and premiering Friday on Netflix (home also...
It turns out that Riverdale is not quite the perfect, peppy town it makes itself out to be. A new trailer for “Riverdale” has been released, and it gives fans an extended look at the murder mystery at the center of the CW’s upcoming show. With the “Riverdale” series premiere just a little over...
Movie recommendations from critics Kenneth Turan, Justin Chang and other reviewers. Click title for full review. Arrival Amy Adams stars in this elegant, involving science-fiction drama that is simultaneously old and new, revisiting many alien-invasion conventions but with unexpected intelligence,...
Take a look inside “Inner Workings,” the short film from Walt Disney Animation Studios, with these delightful Disneyfied anatomical designs and concept art. The Leo Matsuda-directed short “Inner Workings” takes place in the innards of their main character starring his heart, lungs, intestine and...
Every generation gets the “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” that speaks most trenchantly to the evolving cultural issues of our time. Apparently, ours is “Why Him?” where the young suitor isn’t racially other but is from a completely different planet when it comes to culture, values and social norms....
Ben Affleck is apparently at war with Ben Affleck. It is rare to come across someone with such gifts as both an actor and a director who struggles so much when it comes to directing himself as an actor. The new “Live by Night” finds him pulled in so many conflicting directions that what he ends...
From its elegant title to its unexpectedly edgy tone, "A Monster Calls" makes its own way. There is magic, real magic here, and if it doesn't manifest itself in every frame, it's just going to have to be that way. The story of a small boy who must learn adult lessons about life and letting go and...
Just like Santa, Chance the Rapper arrived in the middle of the night with a Christmas gift. The rapper and multiple Grammy nominee teamed with fellow Chicago native and R&B singer Jeremih for a holiday-themed mixtape released in the dead of night. “Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama” features nine holiday...
Like the calculating women whose lives it celebrates, "Hidden Figures" knows what it's doing. A Grade-A Hollywood crowd-pleaser that happily celebrates its shameless moments, "Hidden Figures" can be teased but it can't be ignored. The film may not be restrained but stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia...
This week: A small assortment of shows to help you ring in the new year. The Annual All-New One-Time-Only New Year’s Eve Musical Revue! Family-friendly celebration features sketches, sing-alongs and more. Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th St., Santa Monica. Sat., 6 and 9:30 p.m. $39.50-$69.50. (310)...
Fifty years ago, British filmmaker Ken Loach rattled television viewers in Britain with “Cathy Come Home,” a hard-edged, close-up look at a young mother’s slide into poverty and homelessness that awakened a country to ignored sociopolitical issues. Now 80, Loach has become an Old Master of classic...
Anyone walking along Highland Avenue on a recent Friday evening might’ve been alarmed by the sound blaring from behind the El Capitan Theatre. “All you black folks, you must go,” cried several voices in rowdy unison. “Muslims and gays — boy, we hate your ways.” A meeting of the newly emboldened...
If there was an arts buzzword for 2016, it was “immersive.” The word landed in our email boxes with invites to immersive theater events. It topped press releases announcing immersive art installations. It filled out notices for immersive, site-specific dance performances and even applied, quite...
In a converted hanger at the former Valkenburg Naval Air Base in Katwijk, about 40 minutes southwest of Amsterdam, 1,100 theatergoers sit on a circular platform about 100 feet in diameter. As the show begins, the entire seat platform starts to rotate, stopping in front of one of 10 stationary stages...
Robert Rauschenberg liked to smash molds. In the 1950s, at the apex of the Abstract Expressionist movement, the artist employed his off-the-wall imagination in service of a multimedia approach to art that served as a harbinger of what was to come in late 20th and early 21st century art. This is...
Sandra Hüller does the subtlest, loveliest double take you’ve ever seen. More a quick dart of the eyes, really, followed by a tensing of the shoulders, before her expression hardens and her mind leaps into damage-control mode. It’s a gift that this brilliant German actress keeps on giving in “Toni...