“For somebody to fundamentally change their mind is the hardest thing,” says Chiwetel Ejiofor, reflecting on his new film, “Come Sunday.” The movie, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix, stars Ejiofor as a real-life religious figure, Bishop Carlton...

If a sampling of some classical music aesthetes on social media is to be believed, April 16 marked the day the music died. A rapper — a rapper! — named Kendrick Lamar was placed on a pedestal as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in music, joining geniuses of American composition including Aaron....

The effort to extend California’s filming tax credit beyond its 2020 expiration date has passed a key government hurdle, moving the initiative closer to a vote by the state’s legislative body. On Wednesday, the Senate Governance and Finance Committee gave its stamp of approval to the bill, known...

“I Feel Pretty” is — how to put this? — better than it looks. A mildly raunchy yukfest by way of an aspirational fairy tale, the movie stars Amy Schumer as Renee, an ordinary New Yorker who dreams of being a knockout — or, barring that, of being able to squeeze into shoes smaller than a double-wide...

Ignore the nondescript title; writer-director Jeff Houkal’s backwoods horror film “Edge of Isolation” has personality and just enough splatter to satisfy gore-hounds. The plot’s a rehash of ’70s/’80s drive-in classics like “The Hills Have Eyes,” but this movie has its own odd energy and is effective..

There are no rotating heads or spewing green goop on display, but “Exorcist” director William Friedkin’s documentary, “The Devil and Father Amorth,” serves as a curious companion piece to his 1973 horror classic and has its own chilling, if limited, charms. “At the time I made ‘The Exorcist,’ I...

I would not have enjoyed living in Teotihuacan, given all the human and animal sacrifice believed necessary to keeping the cosmic wheels of nature and civilization oiled and turning in that ancient Mesoamerican metropolis, just outside modern Mexico City. More than a dozen years ago, few archaeolog..

"A Quiet Place" is likely to retake the top spot from "Rampage" at the box office this weekend, before "Avengers: Infinity War" obliterates all competitors.