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A global scourge gets the schlock-buffet treatment in “Trafficked,” a thriller about sex slaves no less junky because it includes grim statistics as text at the end, and was written by human trafficking activist Siddharth Kara. Movies can warp any urgent issue into disposable melodrama, and what’s...

To the editor: Thank you very much for encouraging other Republican leaders to follow Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) in denouncing the president’s dangerous bellicosity. (“Corker’s colleagues must join him in calling out Trump’s recklessness,” editorial, Oct. 11)

Don't look now, but Supreme Court justices are becoming popular culture avatars.

Other than serving as potential homework for Jared Kushner, there just isn’t much of value in “Surviving Peace,” a self-serving documentary dialogue on the century-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict directed by Southern California-based Israeli attorney Josef Avesar.

In response to the bribery and corruption case roiling college basketball, the Pac-12 has formed a task force to offer reforms to protect athletes and “address certain systemic issues” in college athletics.

Producer-director Joan Kron’s “Take My Nose … Please!” is a lively and enjoyable documentary about comedians, plastic surgery, female self-image, aging in Hollywood, and other facets of facial politics. Though the film’s running time could have used a little nip-tuck, “Nose” offers a candid look...

The Ducks finally scored first in a contest, and though it still wasn't the start they were looking for, they earned a 3-2 win over the New York Islanders on Wednesday at Honda Center. Here's what we learned:

For a movie with no shortage of ropes, whips and naughty-nurse role play, the actual moment of consummation in “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” is remarkably tame.

The California Border Patrol shows the progress of border wall prototypes along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Here's what we know about the deadly fires burning in Northern California.

Names are endowed with unusual power in “Goodbye Christopher Robin,” a honey-hued but brittle-edged drama about the English author A.A. Milne and the emotional price he paid for his most enduring literary creation. Here and there we glean a few charming insights into Milne’s methods of naming his...

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Close to two weeks after 64-year-old Stephen Paddock rained down bullets on attendees of a country music festival in Las Vegas, killing 58 and injuring nearly 500 others, investigators are no closer to understanding the gunman’s motives.

For a nation riveted by the deadliest mass...

“It’s good to see a woman standing tall.” The words are spoken by the Belgian-born filmmaker Agnès Varda late into her wonderful new movie, as she and her crew snap photographs of three women in the French port city of Le Havre. Her plan is to make the women stand as tall as possible by printing...

The first time I met Harvey Weinstein he called me an idiot in front of a theater full of people. The last time I spoke to him he told me he knew who my enemies were and threatened to give me to them on a “dish served cold” so they could carve me up “like turkey on Thanksgiving.”

Hachette Book Group terminated its Weinstein Books imprint on Thursday, it said via an internal e-mail obtained by Buzzfeed Books and PublishersLunch. Hachette is the latest entity to distance itself from Harvey Weinstein after a flood of allegations of sexual harassment and assault. The Weinstein...

If the sight of the common rat, with its coarse fur and scaly tail, is something you’d rather avoid, Theo Anthony wants you to reconsider.

A body was found on the beach in Venice on Thursday morning.

The body, described only as that of a female, was discovered about 6:30 a.m. near the 1500 block of Ocean Front Walk, said Los Angeles Police Officer Sal Ramirez.

Information was not immediately available on the age or name of the person,...

Samantha Bee ripped into Harvey Weinstein, Republicans and “creepy” men during Wednesday’s episode of “Full Frontal.”