Author name: Rebecca Ramos

The letter to the Japanese American National Museum on Friday morning from the National Endowment for the Humanities read in part: “Due to a change in the Administration’s funding priorities, DOGE has made the decision to terminate NEH awards.” The Los Angeles museum had seen this coming. On Wednesday night, state humanities councils across the […]

As America’s plague of school shootings continues unabated, a steady stream of movies has cropped up in response to the ongoing tragedy. These films have run the gamut — sometimes focusing on the survivors, sometimes on the shooters, sometimes on the parents — and likewise their strategies have varied, either promising catharsis, hope or insight.

The sunlit opening of French writer-director Louise Courvoisier’s punchy, sweet coming-of-age debut feature, “Holy Cow,” set in a cheese-making pocket of France’s Comté region, is a lively welcome. After the head-scratching sight of a calf in the passenger seat of a compact car, we follow a burly man with a keg through a packed fairgrounds

Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing additional counts related to sex trafficking, according to a superseding indictment filed this week. Combs was hit with a three-count indictment in September that accused him of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. On Thursday, federal prosecutors in New York tacked on two additional counts

In the early 1980s, at the peak of the punk rock scene in Fullerton, the interest and demand for punk in Orange County reached a boiling point during one particular TSOL show at Fullerton College. The band was playing a room filled to capacity when an overzealous throng of people stormed the back door, causing

As the search for the next James Bond continues, alum Pierce Brosnan voiced his approval for one 007 prospect: Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Brosnan, who fronted the “Bond” franchise across four films from 1995 to 2002, said in a recent interview that he thinks his “Greatest” co-star “would be very good” for the iconic role. The “GoldenEye”

Better than any virtual character a crack visual effects team could conjure, the long-faced gentle giant of a dog that gives “The Friend” its abiding soulfulness — a black-splotched Great Dane with the drooping eyes of a silent-era clown, credited as Bing — is also, it turns out, among the best co-stars a superlative onscreen

“Freaky Tales,” a choppy curio from the writing-directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (“Half Nelson,” “Captain Marvel”), is an ode to the Bay Area as a boy might remember it, showcasing three semi-true stories set on May 10, 1987, that gild facts into myth. “Oakland in ’87 was hella wild,” gloats rapper Too

LAS VEGAS — There’s a lot of uncertainty in the movie business. The theatrical box office is struggling to find its footing in a world where movie-going habits and studio strategies have changed since the pandemic. There is anxiety about studio leadership at Warner Bros., the Paramount Global and Skydance merger and a recent major shakeup for

British comedian Russell Brand has been charged with rape and assault by police in the U.K. The 49-year-old actor, known for his work in R-rated comedies including “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Get Him to the Greek,” was charged with single counts of rape, indecent assault, oral rape and two counts of sexual assault, the Metropolitan