March 23 Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies Undead hordes terrorize Charleston, Miss. With Miles Doleac, Michael Emery, Jeremy Sande. Written by Mark Newton, Christian Hokenson, Stephan Stromer, Daniel Wood. Directed by Newton. NR. Bag of Marbles Young brothers in occupied France use their wile..

Hello! I'm Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. The South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, wrapped up this week, and this turned out to be a pretty exciting year. Jen Yamato and/or I was there for the well-received studi..

After five weekends in theaters, Marvel's comic book juggernaut "Black Panther" continues to crush both the box office and the record books. The Disney blockbuster added $27 million to its domestic earnings this weekend, raising its cumulative ticket sales to $605.4 million, according to figur..

New on Blu-ray “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (Disney/Buena Vista DVD, $19.96; Blu-ray, $24.96; 4K, $29.96; also available on VOD) The “Star Wars” franchise is so monolithic and means so many different things to so many different people that it’s hard to make a movie that’ll please every fan. Kudos...

Charlie “Chalo” Quintana, a fixture on the Southern California punk and roots music scene for decades, has died after struggling in recent years with emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, his sister Elizabeth Montoya confirmed to The Times. He was 56. Quintana, who died...

Break out the balloons and cake, we’d like to throw a retirement party — for some of the most insidious female stereotypes in Hollywood movies. It’s been an eventful few years for women in Hollywood. With the #MeToo movement, a cathartic reckoning with and cleansing of sexual harassment in the...

After the reckonings of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, one fundamental question has dogged the music industry: Why not us? In the film and TV industries, executives like Harvey Weinstein and entrepreneurial actors such as Louis C.K. and Kevin Spacey have suffered instantaneous career repercuss..