This week's picks from L.A.'s small-theater scene: "All's Well That Ends Well" at ISC Studio, "Pigs and Chickens" at Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, "An Undivided Heart" at Atwater Village Theatre and "A Man for All Seasons" at Actors Co-op.

Held each year over the course of 10 zany days in Austin, Texas, the South by Southwest festival has a little bit of everything: film, technology, music, breakfast tacos and plenty of that famous Texas barbecue. At the close of a 2018 edition that ran the gamut from the surprise premiere of Steven....

TCM Big Screen Classics Sixtieth-anniversary screening of Vertigo, director Alfred Hitchcock’s highly influential and haunting thriller about obsessive love, starring Jimmy Stewart as a man consumed by desire and Kim Novak in a complex, dual performance of a woman who is both fantasy and cipher....

Coming up short on tension and long on talky exposition, “Josie” emerges as a Southern-fried dramatic thriller that fails to deliver the pulpy goods despite a nicely rooted Dylan McDermott lead performance. Veteran McDermott (“The Practice”) plays the soft-spoken Hank, a Texas transplant holed...

Years ago, in a quiet German forest, a gravedigger for fallen soldiers stilled his spade and said: “In these bones, you see what war is like. I know war now. I'll tell you what it is. War is young men killing other young men they do not know on the orders of old men who know one another too wel..

Movie recommendations from Justin Chang, Kenneth Turan and other reviewers. Annihilation Natalie Portman plays a biologist who joins an all-female expedition into the heart of an environmental disaster zone in this eerily beautiful and hypnotically unsettling mind-bender from "Ex Machina" writer-d..

The gripping political thriller “7 Days in Entebbe” — based on true events and directed by Brazilian filmmaker José Padilha — opens surprisingly with a modern dance performance. It's a captivating choice that serves as an unlikely thematic throughline of the film about a high-stakes high-wire a..