Новости за 26.04.2018

Maybe now Green Bay Packers receiver Trevor Davis finally can laugh about his arrest over for an alleged joke at LAX earlier this month.

It would have been intriguing to see what a filmmaker skilled in choreographing large ensemble casts could have done with the parade of true characters found at a comic book convention.

When taking Kyrie Irving’s elderly character “Uncle Drew” from a successful run of Pepsi commercials to the star of a feature-length film, the creators gathered some Hall of Fame players as supporting actors.

When pianist Jeremy Denk says this is “one of the most conventional programs that I play,” you might be tempted to mentally add the words, “relatively speaking.”

A handful of fine actors are wasted in the limp comedy “The Escape of Prisoner 614,” a period picture that never figures out exactly what it’s spoofing. Writer-director Zach Golden stages the action in picturesque locations, but his film’s modest charms can’t overcome its weak, aimless jokes.

The media industry’s wave of consolidation has loomed over the film industry’s CinemaCon gathering in Las Vegas this week. And nowhere was that specter more present than at 20th Century Fox’s presentation of its upcoming film slate.

In its visual approach alone — quick cuts, bold color and slow motion — Charles Henri Belleville’s directorial debut would remind audiences of Danny Boyle’s work as a whole. But “Jet Trash” takes the hero worship a step further, echoing the plot and themes of Boyle’s “The Beach,” with a change...

When “Goran” begins, there’s little hint of the black comedy that ignites its latter half. We’re unsure who the titular character (Franjo Dijak) is and why we’re spending time with him, his wife (Natasa Janjic) and their circle of friends and family. But once this Croatian film from director Nevio...

Get past its cumbersome title and you’ll find an absorbing, well-drawn biopic in “Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Audacity to Be Free,” an intriguing look at how a Russian-born novelist, poet and avowed feminist became, reportedly, the first female psychoanalyst.

The ideal viewer for the British romantic melodrama “Modern Life Is Rubbish” would be anyone who knows that the title’s referring to a Blur album. Though the movie’s way too contrived, director Daniel Gill and screenwriter Philip Gawthorne (adapting their own 2009 short) clearly understand the...

C. Fitz’s documentary “Jewel’s Catch One,” is a love letter to a historical landmark of Los Angeles nightlife, the now-shuttered Catch One nightclub on Pico Boulevard, which was the “Studio 54 of the West” for decades. But more than a portrait of the club itself, the film is a tribute to Catch...

A Southern California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected his claim that the “restore discs” he made to extend computers’ lives had no financial value, instead ruling that he...

When James Cameron was growing up, he's often said, “I read any book with a spaceship on it,” and science fiction movies inspired him to become a director. Now, with “James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction,” he's returning the favor.

Despite delivering few actual thrills, the fact-based “Backstabbing for Beginners” qualifies as an intelligent, well-crafted political thriller based on the memoirs of Michael Soussan, an idealistic American diplomat who pulls the lid off a United Nations corruption scandal.

French-Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven stunned with her first film, “Mustang,” the Academy Award-nominated portrait of an unbridled Turkish girlhood straining at the strictures of patriarchy. Her follow-up film is “Kings,” which was originally intended to be her directorial debut before “Mustang.”

Overcoming a bruising confirmation fight, the Senate voted Thursday to confirm CIA Director Mike Pompeo as President Trump’s second secretary of State — but the first who Trump says shares his worldview and opinions on Iran, North Korea and other key concerns.

Overcoming a bruising confirmation fight, the Senate voted Thursday to confirm CIA Director Mike Pompeo as President Trump’s second secretary of State — but the first who Trump says shares his worldview and opinions on Iran, North Korea and other key concerns.

University of California regents will not vote on a tuition increase next month, shelving the plan for now in hopes that state lawmakers will come through with more funding.

Actress Alia Shawkat has been quietly building one of the most interesting careers around, from television (“Arrested Development”) to independent films, finding a unique, almost auteurist groove in her work. With her newest film, “Duck Butter,” in which she stars, she makes her screenwriting debut,...

A day before Republican activists file signatures for a ballot initiative to repeal an increase in the state gas tax and vehicle fees, California officials on Thursday announced that $2.4 billion of the money will be spent on dozens of transit projects, including work they say will prepare Southern...

Natalia Bedes-Correnti and her husband had nicknamed their cantankerous neighbor “freak” after hearing one too many expletives shouted across Citrus Heights’ quiet streets.

Bill Cosby was found guilty Thursday on charges he drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea Constand, and many in Hollywood immediately celebrated the news on social media.

For a brief moment of time, largely during the 1960s, Italian spaghetti westerns shot across the international cinematic sky, making luminaries of directors like Sergio Leone and jump-starting Clint Eastwood's feature career.

A few years before the term “fake news” became commonplace, the media covered the strange case of Rachel Dolezal: a Spokane-based white woman “identifying” as black and accused of lying about being the target of racist hate crimes. Was Dolezal drawing attention to the slipperiness of cultural identity?...