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Romance novelist and screenwriter Nicholas Sparks cornered the market on a subgenre he essentially invented — exceedingly pleasant, Southern-set epic romances (between young, attractive, white, Christian, heterosexual couples).

In his first quarterly funding request as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney is asking for nothing.

Pope Francis began the fourth day of his South American trip in northern Chile exhorting the faithful to be more tolerant of immigrants before flying on to Peru for the second leg of his journey, where his pastoral focus is expected to be on the environment and the rights of the indigenous.

Cops and robbers, robbers and cops. It's a classic genre, from children's games to cinema. And it's the spine of Christian Gudegast's directorial debut, the L.A. crime noir flick “Den of Thieves,” where “cops and robbers” is writ so large it nearly becomes abstract.

“Humor Me” will humor you — and then some. It’s one of the best films of its kind, along with Albert Brooks’ “Mother” and “In Her Shoes,” in which a floundering adult gets back on track with help from a senior-age parent (or grandparent). If writer-director Sam Hoffman’s charming, well-performed...

Actress and producer Trudie Styler makes her feature directorial debut with the flamboyantly genderqueer “Freak Show,” an adaptation of the novel by the legendary club kid, writer and host James St. James. Scripted by Patrick J. Clifton and Beth Rigazio, the story puts a young adult spin on the...

Annie Ernaux is ruthless. I mean that as a compliment. Perhaps no other memoirist — if, in fact, memoir-writing is what Ernaux is up to, which both is and isn’t the case — is so willing to interrogate not only the details of her life but also the slippery question of identity. Beginning with her...

Bad movies can inspire derision or disappointment, but indie comedy “Dance Baby Dance” mostly just evokes pity. Writer, director, producer and star Stephen Kogon is clearly trying his hardest to create an entertaining film fueled by a passion for tap dance, but what’s on screen demonstrates an...

Sitting in a Michigan courtroom, dressed in a blue jumpsuit, Larry Nassar on Thursday continued listening to scores of victims who are coming forward to speak at his sentencing.

A couple in Perris beat, strangled and shackled their children for years, the abuse escalating from neglect to torture over time, prosecutors said Thursday.

With an affection for nerd culture that is inversely proportional to its budget, this lo-fi sci-fi comedy is destined for laugh-filled late-night viewing. “This Giant Papier-Mâché Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy” pays homage to favorites like “Doctor Who” and “Battlestar Galactica” while looking...

In the 34 years since Robert Englund and Lin Shaye appeared in “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” both actors have brought their distinctive personalities to so many horror films of varied quality that their presence in a picture hardly guarantees greatness.

Los legisladores tienen hasta el viernes a medianoche para aprobar una ley que evite el cierre del gobierno.

The press-kit for the haunted house movie “Delirium” describes Oakland’s Dunsmuir-Hellman Historic Estate as the film’s “star,” which is pretty much true. The elegant 19th century mansion — previously seen in “Burnt Offerings,” “Phantasm,” and “So I Married an Axe Murderer” — looks like it was...

Did Belgian-born Gypsy musician Django Reinhardt need to be the most celebrated guitarist of his day to survive a Nazi regime hellbent on eradicating his kind? It’s an intriguing premise, but one only fitfully explored in Étienne Comar’s World War II-set biopic “Django,” about events surrounding...

Los cargos formales fueron anunciados el jueves en el caso de los padres acusados de tortura y de poner en peligro a los niños, luego de que las autoridades dijeron que sus 13 hijos fueron encontrados encadenados y desnutridos dentro de su hogar en Perris.

Made in the slightly melted mold of “Bring It On” and “Pitch Perfect,” this comedy brings a standard underdog story to the world of step dancing. Netflix’s almighty algorithm smartly calculated that “Step Sisters” is the type of movie that makes for good couch viewing, though it lacks the spark...

1. His moment of truth arrived with 3:09 left in the game, when the Denver Nuggets began to intentionally foul Montrezl Harrell.

Ten months ago, The Times editorial board wrote that Donald Trump was encouraging Americans to disrespect science, to distrust the mainstream media and to reject facts. Were this to continue, we said, the result would be an increasingly divided country with too few shared assumptions, where ideological...

Like mother like daughter … or is it like daughter like mother? Lena Dunham was no doubt inspired by her photographer mom Laurie Simmons, and Simmons herself takes a page out of Dunham’s book with the film “My Art,” which she wrote, directed and stars in. Simmons plays Ellie, a New York City working...

Formal charges were announced Thursday in the case of the parents accused of torture and child endangerment after authorities said their 13 children were discovered chained and malnourished inside their Perris home.