A fresh spin on the suspense film, writer-director Kasra Farahani’s “Tilt” is more concerned with everyday anxiety than anything extreme. Rather than literal ticking time bombs, the movie focuses on small pressures that build into big ones: unwanted family obligations, awkward social interactions...

Isabelle Huppert as a has-been chanteuse is all a film fan should need to stoke the wanna-see factor for “Souvenir,” and it probably doesn’t hurt that there’s a May-December romance as an extra incentive for devotees of the magnetic French superstar. But promise is all one’s left with after Belgian..

Holy cow, Lorde said in more colorful language, “there are a lot of people here tonight!” Standing onstage at Staples Center, the young pop singer was surveying the crowd gathered to take in Wednesday’s stop on her world tour behind last year’s “Melodrama” album. If her choice of expletive suggest..

Writer-director-editor Joseph Martin’s edgy crime dramedy “Us and Them” has something to say, but it says it with perhaps too much pizzazz. Part of a long tradition of incendiary, punk-influenced British social satires, the picture will undoubtedly resonate with some politically engaged filmgoers,....

Japan does not automatically come to mind when the subject is Jasper Johns. The artist entered the popular imagination with his paintings of the American flag in 1950s, and he will never cease to be identified with them. When the Broad museum opened its sublime Johns retrospective, “Something Resem..

Stephen Hawking may have pondered exalted regions — explaining the heavens and exploring black holes — but he also slipped into the public imagination, a mathematical genius whose humor and fierce wit ran through, and inspired, books, films, essays, music and even the strange, satirical constellatio..

Outside the Sidewinder venue in Austin on Wednesday afternoon, the blocks-long line to get into the management firm Secret Sounds’ showcase wasn’t moving. One fan said she’d been stuck in her spot for upwards of two hours. But one gang of Australians, all dressed in identical shirts printed with...

A plethora of pleasures are hidden under the deceptively mundane title of "The Opera House." Nominally a documentary about the creation of New York's half-century-old Metropolitan Opera House, it turns out to be a charming and convivial celebration of not just the building but also opera in gen..