The story J.D. Dillard tells in the leadup doesn’t distract so much as it politely asks you to stand up so that it can place the trick card under your ass....
Roger Guenveur Smith developed his one-man show, Rodney King, at his home theater, the Bootleg, shortly after King's death in 2012. Frequent collaborator Spike Lee directed this adaptation for Netflix, where it premieres April 28. In it, Smith — with no props or sound effects or costume changes — captures the confusion, passion, intensity, violence and absurdity of the 1992 L.A. riots, as his narrator tells us the real story of the life and times of Rodney King....
The stories of the 1992 L.A. Riots are so vast and varied that there will always be something new to learn from them. In Daniel Lindsay and TJ Martin’s new National Geography documentary, LA 92, the riots are shown through a collage of archival news clips from multiple perspectives. Here......
In the 1960s, French New Wave directors’ provocative, groundbreaking films dominated the art houses and aided in the rebirth of American cinema the following decade. Since then, mostly devout cinephiles with access to a video store or boutique art theater have been able to keep up with the country’s movie......
On the 3,000-acre wilderness property of Lockwood Animal Rescue Center, military veterans take in hurt, abandoned and exploited captive wolves, helping the animals and the war vets heal from PTSD....
In Netflix’s new teen-suicide drama series 13 Reasons Why, pretty-boy Marcus (Steven Silver) tells good-guy Clay (Dylan Minnette) that whatever the kids did to Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) to make her kill herself was no different than what happens to any other girl in any other high school everywhere. And......
Arnold may have just reinvented his career yet again in this movie based on the true events of a Russian architect who tracked down and murdered the air-traffic controller he considered responsible for the death of his wife and daughter....
The premise for Charlie McDowell’s The Discovery is so simple and poetic that it’s hard to believe it hasn’t been done before: A scientist discovers definitive proof of an afterlife, and the world responds with mass suicides. McDowell, who scored a sleeper hit with The One I Love — which......
The Perkins brothers have endured tragedy in their lives, first with the death of their father, Psycho star Anthony Perkins, from AIDs-related pneumonia in 1982, then with the sudden death of their mother, Berry Berenson, who was on Flight 11 in the 9/11 attacks....
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