Author name: Rebecca Ramos

Imbuing everyone’s favorite mythical horned horse with bloodlust is such a ready-to-rock concept that it keeps your grindhouse hopes alive for the horror-comedy “Death of a Unicorn,” even as your wandering attention betrays the reality of a wannabe cult movie that mostly gallops in place. Writer-director Alex Scharfman, doing his best to channel the playful […]

Jennifer Salke will step down from her role as head of Amazon MGM Studios, the company said Thursday in an internal email viewed by the Times. Salke won’t be going far. She’ll be starting a new production entity that has a first-look deal with Amazon MGM Studios for both film and TV, according to the

“A Working Man” opens with a batty pastiche of bullets and buzz saws, parachutes and cranes. A soldier’s corpse rests under an American flag. A cement mixer trundles toward a construction site. There’s something modestly affecting (and complicated) about the career arc of a contractor named Levon Cade (Jason Statham) who once blew up buildings

Featuring home movies shot by Suzette Quintanilla, the new documentary ‘Selena y Los Dinos’ made waves at Sundance and SXSW. It was a full house at the Library Center Theatre in Park City, Utah, where hundreds of Sundance Film Festival-goers trudged through the snow and filed into their seats to watch “Selena y Los Dinos,”

At this year’s Sundance, I blushed every time someone asked about my favorite movies of the fest. I knew I’d have to include James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a twee-sounding British comedy about a folk musician named Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) who plays a gig on a remote Welsh island for his No.

“Grand Tour,” the latest film from Portugal’s Miguel Gomes, is stuck in the past, beautifully so, and yet, the present keeps creeping in, insisting on making itself heard. But where other directors might look backward to luxuriate into nostalgia — whether out of fondness for a bygone era or an antiquated style of filmmaking —

Author L.J. Smith, who created the “Vampire Diaries” book series that inspired the CW drama of the same name and contributed to pop culture’s obsession with vampires, has died. Smith died March 8 in a hospital in Walnut Creek, Calif., The Times confirmed. A statement shared to Smith’s website says she died “peacefully” after “a

The all-things-puppetry extravaganza that is the yearly Bob Baker Day at Chinatown’s Los Angeles State Historic Park has landed on its themes and parade-leading grand marshal for its 2025 edition, set for April 13. Animated characters SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star will launch the festivities at 10 a.m. with a parade that will span the

The Sundance Film Festival will move to Boulder, Colo., beginning with the 2027 edition, a transformative change for one of the independent film community’s key annual events. Following a vote on Wednesday by the Sundance Institute’s board of trustees, the city was chosen over the other two finalists, Cincinnati and Salt Lake City. “There was

It’s time to get a little “Misty”: Johnny Mathis, the singer who has entertained audiences since the 1950s, is retiring from touring, his team announced Wednesday. “As many of you may already be aware, Johnny Mathis is approaching his 90th birthday this year,” the statement said on Facebook. “So it’s with sincere regret that due