Three love stories unfold in “Jane,” Brett Morgen’s stirring portrait of conservationist Jane Goodall. The first is the director’s respect and affection for his octogenarian subject. Embraced in the clear, honeyed light of Ellen Kuras’ cinematography, Goodall comes across as vibrantly plainspoken...
Sinclair Broadcast Group is a step closer to taking over Tribune Media after shareholders of the Chicago-based media company voted overwhelmingly to approve the proposed $3.9-billion acquisition.
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Although Federica Di Giacomo’s documentary “Deliver Us” is being released during the Halloween season, this film about real-life Catholic exorcisms doesn’t count as a horror movie — except maybe to viewers who get weirded out by human despair or irrational religious fervor.
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President Trump intends to nominate Joseph Simons, a longtime expert in competition law, to head the Federal Trade Commission, America's top privacy and consumer protection agency, the White House said Thursday.
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The Kings will be without a major cog in their lineup, and there’s no timetable for his return.
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There is something about Hollywood that loves a fire.
From 1903's "Life of an American Fireman" to the burning of Atlanta in "Gone With the Wind" to more contemporary epics like "Backdraft" and "The Towering Inferno," setting things ablaze has always seemed a sure way to an audience's heart.
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What viewers will get out of “Heal” will likely depend on their willingness to keep an open mind. This documentary from Kelly Noonan Gores explores the mind-body connection, offering personal stories, learned knowledge and scientific evidence to support its ideas around how our thoughts and emotions...
Obsessive but accessible, the deepest dive imaginable into one of the most celebrated scenes in movie history, the documentary "78/52" looks at a brief three minutes of cinema the way it’s never been looked at before.
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In the annals of cynical corporate subterfuges, it would be hard to top the effort by the drugmaker Allergan to fend of a patent challenge by selling its drug rights to a rural New York Indian tribe.
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Motherhood proves to have a profoundly life-changing effect on a chronically combative teen in “For Ahkeem,” a tenderly intimate, affecting documentary portrait by filmmakers Jeremy S. Levine and Landon Van Soest.
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Ittetsu Nemoto, the Zen monk at the center of Lana Wilson’s documentary “The Departure,” is on his phone a lot and loves dancing at nightclubs.
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A couple who founded a Crenshaw private school and fled after authorities charged them with 13 sex crimes against minors was arrested by Florida and Los Angeles police Wednesday after 17 years on the run.
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President Trump met at the White House on Thursday with Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet L. Yellen as he neared a decision on who will lead the central bank after her first four-year term ends in February.
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Defense Secretary James N. Mattis, troubled by a lack of information two weeks after an ambush on a special operations patrol in Niger left four U.S. soldiers dead, is demanding a timeline of what is known about the attack, as a team of investigators sent to West Africa begins its work.
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Covering an eventful artistic season, Jean-Stéphane Bron’s “The Paris Opera” is a well-observed vérité portrait of a major cultural institution. The fly-on-the-wall cameras peer into executive suite politics, rehearsals and the daily chores of hairdressers and laundry crew, and Bron achieves a...
Danielle Darrieux, a prolific French actress whose movie and theater career spanned eight decades, has died. She was 100.
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Director Hope Litoff conducts a searing inventory of her sister’s life in the stark and unflinching documentary “32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide.” A documentary film editor, Litoff puts herself on camera while attempting to ask the question that bedeviled her sister through years of mental illness:...