New on Blu-ray “Loving Vincent: Special Edition” (Cinedigm Blu-ray, $29.97) “The Girl Without Hands” (Shout! Factory/GKIDS DVD/Blu-ray combo, $22.97) Casual moviegoers may be baffled by the inclusion of “Loving Vincent” in the Oscars’ best animated feature category this year, but devotees of the...

"Black Panther" fever took over Los Angeles and beyond this weekend as the highly anticipated Disney film opened to the kind of fervor typically reserved for the latest offering in the "Star Wars" franchise. The Marvel Entertainment release took in an estimated $192 million over the weekend domesti..

Feb. 23 Annihilation Natalie Portman stars as a biologist on a mission to learn her husband's fate in a mutated coastal sector of the U.S. With Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, Tuva Novotny. Written and directed by Alex Garland, based on novels by Jeff VanderM..

Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.), Charles McNulty (C.M.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Isaac Babel and the Black Sea Timothy McNeil’s new drama about the Soviet-era writer and artist. Stella Adler Academy of Acting & Theatre,....

Hello! I'm Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Now that nearly all the precursor awards have been given out, this year’s Oscar race remains in an unusual holding pattern. In what has been an unpredictable season, these final weeks ..

On tour last year behind his hit album “Damn,” Kendrick Lamar performed every night on a stage largely swept free of distractions. The bare-bones production was designed to focus attention on the Compton rapper’s densely worded songs about race, identity and the alienating effect of success, and...

When invited to become music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in spring 1989, Esa-Pekka Salonen reminisced Friday night onstage after conducting a program in tribute to Frank Gehry at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the bait was that he would be given the opportunity to create the orchestra of...

“I like showing up in different ways, in different places,” Angela Bassett admits, reflecting on her truly varied acting career. The New York-born actress, 59, has never really played roles by type. Instead, Bassett has taken on such varied figures as Tina Turner, Coretta Scott King and the freedom..