Regarding “Seeing Allred” [Feb. 9]: Gloria Allred accepted our marriage case when no LGBT legal organization would. Her firm did it pro bono. They were the first law firm to file in the case that brought marriage equality to California. Gavin Newsom’s same sex marriages in San Francisco were annulle..

The Aussie crime-thriller “Hidden Light” manages to be an involving ride despite its sometimes murky storytelling and elliptical character connections. Writer-director Aaron Kamp (he also edited) weaves an effective spell of dread as this dark tale of revenge, redemption and emotional unraveling...

An appealing pair of leads, notable supporting players and a sincere story line still can’t make “Irreplaceable You” the authentic, deeply felt emotional ride it clearly aims to be, swinging and missing at a kind of nouveau, Brooklyn-set version of “Love Story.” Like the film’s Abbie (Gugu Mbatha-R..

Being a black American sometimes comes with an identity crisis. After all, parts of African American culture are rooted in a land some of them will never know thanks to colonialism, imperialism and slavery. The result, hundreds of years later, is a generational distance. “One of the things that...

There’s a scene in “Black Panther” — director Ryan Coogler’s breathlessly awaited Marvel Comics adaptation that promises to smash box-office records when it opens Thursday night — in which a bad guy busy raining fire from the passenger seat of a getaway car commands his driver to turn on some music...

Shocked, wordless, traumatized. That was the emotional condition Canadian actor and theater director Jonathon Young experienced after his young daughter died in an accidental fire. Young's Electric Company Theatre and the dance troupe Kidd Pivot translate the feeling into "Betroffenheit."

Inside the well-worn choir room at Van Nuys High School, a scuffed-up old grand piano rumbles as composer David O pounds out slow, bluesy chords. “Who I am,” the choir sings soulfully above his accompaniment, their voices rising in pitch with each word, “is a woman who fights a good fight.” Choral..

The 16th-century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” has been mined for countless movies and TV shows, including the international blockbuster hits “The Monkey King” and “The Monkey King 2.” Like its predecessors, the third “Monkey King” adapts a small segment of the 100-chapter epic — and does...