Новости за 24.08.2017

I read with interest the commentary by Scott Larson and John Moorlach, “Orange County needs housing solutions for the homeless” (Daily Pilot, Aug. 11) and agree heartily.

Embarking on its most costly attraction yet, Legoland announced Thursday that it will introduce a submarine ride next year that will traverse a “deep sea” habitat populated with tropical fish, stingrays and exotic sharks.

From its opening scene, “Ghost House” refuses to ease viewers into terror. Instead, the horror movie quickly establishes how it will keep the audience squirming for 100 minutes. Director Rich Ragsdale doesn’t innovate within the genre but does provide enough visual surprises to please fans of supernatural...

The tremendously affecting documentary “Served Like a Girl,” directed by Lysa Heslov, takes as its subject an event that may be niche but contains a much larger cultural significance. The Ms. Veteran America pageant features female vets embracing their feminine side in gorgeous gowns, but the true...

The gory thriller “Death Note” tells a fairly simple story, about a teenager named Light Turner (played by Nat Wolff of “The Naked Brothers Band” and “The Fault In Our Stars”), gifted with the power to kill anybody in the world just by thinking of their face and writing down their name. Off-screen...

Italian riot police turned a water cannon on Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Rome on Thursday, scattering them from a piazza where they had camped for five days after being evicted from a building where they had been squatting for several years.

The Hollywood Bowl has long been a place to see what are now called legacy acts — often a term that’s a polite way of saying old and critic-proof.

The California Supreme Court decided Thursday that a key provision in last year’s ballot measure to speed executions failed to impose strict deadlines for resolving death penalty appeals.

A Riverside County teenager has been charged with trying to smuggle an endangered Bengal tiger cub into the country from Mexico, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Defense Secretary James N. Mattis condemned Russia’s attempts to “redraw international borders by force” and pledged support for Ukraine on Thursday but stopped short of promising U.S. weapons for Ukraine’s fight against pro-Russian separatists.

Frankie, the shy Brooklyn teenager at the center of Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats,” has a soft, low voice, a well-muscled physique and intense blue eyes that seem to contain worlds of private heartache. Over the course of the movie more than a few strangers will stare longingly at that physique and...

“The Villainess,” an insanely over-cranked action-thriller from the South Korean director Jung Byung-gil, begins with the sort of sequence that seems designed to clear most of the theater, until only those with cast-iron stomachs remain.

Note: This review was originally published July 3, 1991. The film is being re-released in 3D.

Six minutes into "Bushwick" (after a three-minute-long shot of the Brooklyn skyline), it's clear that the New York City borough is under attack.

To the editor: Joe Arpaio, the controversial former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., was convicted of contempt of court for his refusal to follow the law and obey a judge’s order to stop his racial profiling practices.

The cowboy on horseback. The farmer amid endless fields of grain. The fisherman standing on the prow of his boat. Could there be more classic American images than these?

The acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc. by e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. will close Monday, the two companies said in a statement Thursday.

Perhaps something got lost in the translation, but “Deep,” the English-language version of a Spanish-Belgian animated undersea escapade, possesses precious little depth in its current form as an incessantly shrill and awfully derivative fish-out-of-water tale.

Actress Amy Yasbeck has sold her longtime home in Beverly Hills for $6.55 million, or $55,000 more than the asking price. Her late husband, actor-comedian John Ritter, bought the property nearly three decades ago for $2.25 million, public records show.

Tom and Renata Dorn transformed a dilapidated 1930s resort on the Mendocino coast into an enchanting B&B — but with a twist. At Mar Vista Cottages at Anchor Bay the couple renovated the property’s 12 cottages and cleared the trails winding through the surrounding redwood forest and down to the...