On the night of the Golden Globes — as he had for many of the awards season trophy ceremonies — actor Casey Affleck bounded onto the stage to accept his award as best lead actor in a drama for his turn in “Manchester by the Sea.” Meanwhile, Nate Parker, the multi-hyphenate lead of the Nat Turner...
Today in Entertainment: NBC announces 'Will & Grace' revival and orders more of LeBron James' 'The Wall' Jan. 19, 2017, 9:53 a.m. We're experiencing a moment of relative calm in the entertainment world in these few days between the conclusion of Golden Globe Awards and the start of the Sundance...
This week: A lively adaptation of “Moby Dick” sails into South Coast Rep. Plus, a new drama about the inner workings of the brain, and the conclusion of Arlene Hutton’s “Nibroc Trilogy.” God Bliss (In the Name of Semelah) This new work from Eko Nugroho’s shadow-theater ensemble Wayang Bocor tells...
For French explorer, scientist and glaciologist Claude Lorius, his work studying drilled polar ice as a groundbreaking way to chart temperature history was a lifelong thrill ride of wonder and discovery. So why is the documentary “Antarctica: Ice and Sky,” which profiles the now 84-year-old Lorius...
In a much retweeted curtain-call speech from the Broadway stage in November, “Hamilton” actor Brandon Dixon conveyed to then-Vice President-elect Mike Pence that theater can be a dramatic reminder of our shared humanity. Khaled Hosseini hopes that the theatrical adaption of his second novel, “A...
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen, and welcome to a special Sundance getting-started edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. As our intrepid Sundance Film Festival reporting team makes its way to Park City, Utah, for the annual event, we are frankly so excited about everything that...
Few actors have so eclectic a resumé as Alan Cumming. Perhaps best known as political operative Eli Gold on CBS’ “The Good Wife,” the 51-year-old actor won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the seductive master of ceremonies in “Cabaret,” performed a one-man “Macbeth” on Broadway, hosted PBS’ “Masterpiece...
The second season of “Baskets” is even better than the first season — welcome news for those loyal fans who took time off from a billion other binge-wortthy shows in 2016 to watch Zach Galifianakis play a fortysomething out-of-work clown and Louie Anderson portray his concerned mother. “Baskets”...
“Finding Dory” found its way to the stage multiple times as it garnered wins for favorite movie and family movie, along with Ellen DeGeneres for favorite animated movie actress at the People’s Choice Awards. The win also made DeGeneres the most decorated winner in the awards’ history. Caitriona...
SERIES The Good Place This fantasy comedy starring Kristen Bell and Ted Danson ends its freshman season. 8 p.m. NBC Hell’s Kitchen Comedian Pauly Shore, sportscaster Neil Everett and Erik Griffin (“Workaholics”) are guest diners in this new installment of Gordon Ramsay’s culinary competition....
A business manager for singer Alanis Morissette has admitted that he embezzled millions of dollars from the musician, then told her that he’d used the money to invest in marijuana grows, according to a federal court document filed Wednesday. Jonathan Todd Schwartz, 48, of Playa Vista, admitted...
When Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, the Getty-funded exhibition series devoted to Latino and Latin American art, kicks off this fall, it will be with a bang. More specifically, with a celebratory concert announced Wednesday featuring the Grammy-winning Mexican rock band Café Tacvba, L.A. roots...
It’s the rare film that decades later can seem as timely as it was the day it came out. The searing documentary “The Murder of Fred Hampton” is such a film. Directed in 1971 by Howard Alk and Michael Gray, “Murder” contends officials conspired to cause the assassination of Fred Hampton, the charismatic...
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,...
Netflix Inc. surged past expectations for the fourth quarter, announcing on Wednesday that it had added nearly 7.1 million subscribers worldwide, well above its forecast additions of 5.2 million for the quarter. The news sent shares of Netflix soaring in after-hours trading Wednesday, with the...
Leave it to “This Is Us” to bring a twist to even the most obvious news. NBC announced Wednesday that it was renewing its hit drama for a second — and third! — season. The news came during the show’s panel at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena. Each of the forthcoming seasons will...
The women of “Hidden Figures” have defied expectations at the box office during the last two weeks. But now the NASA-themed breakout hit will face a new set of challengers — action star Vin Diesel and director M. Night Shyamalan. Diesel vehicle “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage” and Shyamalan’s...
There was, maybe, one minor thing wrong with the LA Phil New Music Group’s all-Steve Reich program, a celebration of the composer’s 80th birthday, at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday night. Some of the percussion a small some of the time was a tad over-amplified. Everything else, everything...
Eleven years after it went off the air, “Will & Grace” is bracing for a comeback. NBC confirmed at the Television Critics Assn. gathering in Pasadena on Wednesday that it will resurrect the beloved sitcom for a 10-episode limited run, with the original cast on board. In an era when nostalgia has...
Jay D. Roth, who has led the Directors Guild of America for 22 years, will step down from his role as national executive director this spring, the union announced on Wednesday. During his tenure, Roth led the DGA through several rounds of negotiations as the entertainment industry grappled with...
The secular filmmaker Joshua Weinstein stood on a helter-skelter corner in this ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood next to shops selling conservative fashions and Internet-disabled smartphones, and pondered his recent guerrilla shoot. “The strangest casting moment, let me think about that,” the...
Those looking for inauguration day fury may have found their spot: The protest rap group Prophets of Rage has announced an “Anti-Inaugural Ball” for Friday at Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles. It will feature the first performance by rock supergroup Audioslave in 11 years. The event will occur...
The Recording Academy announced Wednesday the first round of performers for the 59th annual Grammy Awards, and, as always, it’s a far-flung bunch designed to attract as many viewers as possible to the televised ceremony branded as “music’s biggest night.” Veteran heavy-metal band Metallica, R&B...
Poetry flows through Jim Jarmusch’s latest film, “Paterson,” in much the same way that the Passaic River winds through the titular New Jersey city, before gracefully dropping over the Great Falls. The initial effect is subtle, but the lasting impression is sublime. The film’s protagonist, a self-effacing...
A weekly roundup of must-hear music from The Times staff. This week’s picks include a heartbreaking, disco-inspired song from Chicago artist the Black Madonna, as well as Celtic-punk veterans the Dropkick Murphys. Also, catch a bit of Allison Crutchfield’s winning debut. And if you want to dig...
Disappointed fans unable to land a ticket for U2's sold-out performance of “The Joshua Tree” at the Rose Bowl on May 20 can relax. The Irish band just announced a second show for May 21. As with the first, the quartet will be performing its 1987 album in its entirety. The new Pasadena date is one...
“Six,” which begins Wednesday on History Channel, is based on the work of the elite anti-terrorist force known as the Navy SEALs, and specifically its Team Six – the best of the best, the most secretive of the secret. Walton Goggins, from “Justified” and “Vice Principals” (and whose late substitution...
The intersections of the personal and professional lives of young people in the creative enclaves of New York and Los Angeles have become a recent Sundance staple. Yet no one assays this territory quite like Alex Ross Perry. The Brooklyn-based writer-director steps into the spotlight of the festival’s...
When “Star Wars” creator George Lucas broke the news last week that he had chosen Los Angeles over San Francisco’s Treasure Island as the home for his $1-billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, jokes abounded that the Force was with L.A.’s Exposition Park, where the museum aims to break ground this...
Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp. is known for running its prized Hollywood studio with a light touch, rarely interfering in the movie and TV business since buying Columbia Pictures in 1989. That’s about to change. After years of box office struggles and corporate upheaval, Sony Chief Executive...
SERIES Undercover Boss The chief executive of a chain of specialty coffee stores goes undercover in this new episode. 8 p.m. CBS Fresh Off the Boat Jessica (Constance Wu) wants the family to let go of any and all negativity ahead of Chinese New Year in this new episode of the sitcom. 8 p.m. ABC...
Thomas Tull has resigned as chairman and chief executive of Legendary Entertainment, nearly a year after China’s Dalian Wanda Group acquired the Burbank film and TV production company in a high-profile deal worth $3.5 billion. Wanda has installed Jack Gao as Legendary’s interim chief executive while...
Marcia! Marcia! Marcia! Er, I mean, Trumpa! Trumpa! Trumpa! With the inauguration around the corner, we are all president-elect all the time — featuring Trump and the the Smithsonian, the Trump boost of a civil rights graphic novel and the ongoing debate about a painting that’s headed to the Trump...
Spanish-language media giants Univision Communications and Grupo Televisa of Mexico are combining their programming units, a move that underscores the increasingly close collaboration between the two companies — and the magnitude of their ratings challenges. New York-based Univision long has been...
Jessica Biel is making her return to TV — and, no, it isn’t for a “7th Heaven” reboot. USA Network has handed out a series order to “The Sinner,” a new anthology series starring Biel and Bill Pullman (“Independence Day”). The pickup was announced Tuesday during the cable network’s presentation...
Jerry Seinfeld is getting into business with Netflix. The comedian has signed a production deal with the streaming giant that will bring his new comedic projects to Netflix beginning this year. As part of the deal, new episodes of his “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” will begin streaming exclusively...
Citing the urgency of the moment while calling for participation in Saturday’s nationwide Women’s March, the avant pop band CocoRosie has issued a new indictment of the incoming Trump administration, “Smoke ’Em Out,” as if to lob a musical Molotov in advance. According to a note by Bianca and Sierra...
After a year that claimed many of Hollywood’s brightest and best, it seemed near miraculous that our beloved Betty White — America’s grandmother, if you will — made it through 2016 unscathed. The golden girl of television celebrated her 95th birthday Tuesday, even without the help of a fan’s GoFundMe...
Though she grew up on the East Coast, singer, songwriter, guitarist and transplant Aimee Mann long ago earned her place as the poet laureate of a certain brand of Los Angeles ennui. Her most famous song, “Save Me,” after all — from the film “Magnolia” — opens with the line, “You look like the...
Whatever your political point of view, it seems impossible to dispute that, on the eve of a Donald Trump presidency, the country is intensely divided. But how did we get here? “Divided States of America,” a four-hour “Frontline” special premiering Tuesday, tackles that provocative question by...
The long-awaited Tupac Shakur biopic finally has a release date. Morgan Creek Productions and Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment said Tuesday that “All Eyez on Me” would arrive in theaters on June 16, on what would have been the slain rapper’s 46th birthday. The release of “All Eyez on Me” will...
Before there was Skrillex, Dog Blood or Jack U, the artist Sonny Moore was a screaming hardcore punk vocalist and guitarist from Highland Park who joined a band called From First to Last. On Sunday, Moore and his original FFTL bandmates announced, seemingly out of the blue, that they had recorded...
Georgia congressman John Lewis, who made headlines Friday for questioning the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s standing as incoming president, will be the subject of a just-announced new documentary scheduled to air on PBS in February. As part of the network’s programming for Black History Month, the...
The Los Angeles region saw the number of on-location production shoots rise about 6% in 2016, thanks mainly to state tax breaks that lured movies and TV shows back to Southern California. Feature movies like Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” from director Ava DuVernay, and Netflix’s “Bright” took advantage...