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January is the grimmest month as far as new releases are concerned, an elephant's graveyard where signs of life are few. So it's a good thing we can count on Liam Neeson to periodically rescue us from these dark and desperate times.

The creator of the Media Men List, an anonymous, crowdsourced spreadsheet documenting allegations of sexual misconduct by men in the publishing and other media, identified herself as Moira Donegan in a first-person essay for The Cut published Wednesday evening.

Too often, low-income, black and Latino students end up in schools with crumbling walls, old textbooks and unqualified teachers, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

The quirky Canadian dramedy “Dim the Fluorescents,” the feature directorial debut of Daniel Warth, who co-wrote the script with Miles Barstead, follows the story of two struggling Toronto actresses. Lillian (Naomi Skwarna), also a playwright, and Audrey (Claire Armstrong) are desperate for the...

President Trump publicly contradicted a major policy position of his administration Thursday — the second time he did so in a week in which the White House has sought to beat back questions about his stability and grasp of policy details.

What’s in your drinking water is worrisome enough these days, but the documentary “What Lies Upstream” will also have you wondering what’s in the minds of corporations, regulators and politicians who seem unconcerned with appropriate oversight of the first issue.

The first words uttered in “In Between,” the assured feature debut of Arab Israeli filmmaker Maysaloun Hamoud, are words of advice: If you want to make your husband happy, an older woman tells a bride, “don’t raise your voice.” For the trio of young women at the center of this sharp, wise and vibrant...

The spat that kicks off “The Insult” (“L’insulte”) an engrossingly blunt instrument of a movie from Lebanese writer-director Ziad Doueiri, concerns an illegal drainpipe on an apartment balcony. Some gutter language, so to speak, ensues.

As the zany-but-brainy on-air alter ego of music historian Barret Hansen, veteran radio show host Dr. Demento has championed the career of “Weird Al” Yankovic, the wacky music of humorists Spike Jones, Allen Sherman, Stan Freberg and Tom Lehrer, and obscure recordings that push the limits of propriety.

USC will sit sophomore De'Anthony Melton for the remainder of the season, his attorney, Vicki I. Podberesky, told The Times on Thursday.

Hi this is Tania Ganguli, Lakers beat writer for the Los Angeles Times here with your weekly newsletter.

The other day while paging through a collection of George Orwell’s writing, I was startled by his angry dismissal of fellow writers Stephen Spender and W.H. Auden as “fashionable pansies.” I shrugged my shoulders and kept on reading.

Thanks to erosion wearing away surface rock on Mars, scientists using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have spotted thick deposits of ice in the planet’s mid-latitudes that extend hundreds of feet deep.

“Saturday Church” is the tender story of 14-year-old Ulysses (a wonderful Luka Kain), whose voyage of self-discovery takes him from his constrained, homophobic Bronx home life to the more welcoming streets of Manhattan’s West Village and a makeshift family of young gay and transgender castoffs.

Like last year’s dreadful “Martyrs,” the home-invasion thriller “Inside” is a remake of an extremely violent French horror film, which softens the original so much that its point is lost. Unlike “Martyrs,” the new “Inside” remains gripping enough to unnerve anyone who doesn’t know it’s an adaptation.

Energy giant BP has agreed to pay California $102 million as part of a settlement of allegations that it overcharged the state in sales of natural gas, Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra said Thursday.

The scenic hillsides of Los Feliz come from shaky beginnings, but since then, the neighborhood’s allure has grown.

Diane Munro walked her 7-year-old French bulldog, Daisy, down Hot Springs Road on Wednesday, surveying the damage.