'LONGLEGS'

Rated R for bloody violence, disturbing images and some language.

What it’s about: A young female FBI agent tracks down a mysterious serial killer.

The kid attractor factor: This is a creepy and terrifying horror thriller — not much appeal for kids.

Good lessons/bad lessons: Sometimes the answers we seek are within.

Violence:...Read more

CHICAGO — At the back of the U-shaped Roosevelt Collection retail complex, on Delano Court at Roosevelt Road, there’s a multiplex for lease. Until the last day of June, the place wasn’t just a place. It was a ShowPlace: The Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON.

And now? The Roosevelt Collection management company is taking meetings in search of a new...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the time of chimpanzees, Beck told us 30 years ago, he was a monkey: a baby-faced singer-songwriter crash-landing in the age of grunge with a hard-to-classify hit called "Loser." The song from his 1994 major-label debut, "Mellow Gold," put folky guitar strumming over a throbbing hip-hop beat and found the lifelong Angeleno ...Read more

After 41 years with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and two years with Fleetwood Mac, guitarist Mike Campbell is finally gaining confidence as a songwriter and singer with his own band, the Dirty Knobs.

That's evident on the new "Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits," the Knobs' third album in four years.

"It's taken me a while to get to the ...Read more

A film like “Sing Sing” is a rare, precious thing. An artifact crafted with the utmost care, this is a cinematic work of unique empathy, a slice of hand-turned humanity, hewn from the heart, with rigorous attention paid to the process itself.

How this quietly captivating film was made is almost the more important story, but it is part and ...Read more

Oz Perkins’ eerie, occultist serial killer horror thriller “Longlegs” opens with a psyche-rattling sequence, barely a minute or two long, in which he crafts a chilling sense of shock, awe and confounding humor simply through shot composition, editing and performance. It unsettles the viewer on a bone-deep level, the tension then bursting ...Read more

The talented actor Colman Domingo has been delivering terrific performances for years, building a body of work that showcases both his singular screen presence and versatility as an actor. In one of this summer’s most uniquely moving films, “Sing Sing,” he plays a prison playwright who finds salvation on the stage while incarcerated in a ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Mrs. Doubtfire is coming home.

This time around, however, there will be far more singing, as the Broadway touring production of the “Mrs. Doubtfire” musical is performed at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco through July 28. Tickets are $55-$158, broadwaysf.com.

It marks the Northern California premiere of the play, ...Read more

DENVER — For $650 a head, Jim Myers leads cryptid-curious folks from around the world into the wilderness of Colorado’s Park County for a three-day camping expedition in search of the elusive Bigfoot.

Myers’s business, Rabbit Hole Adventures, provides tents, meals, guides, first aid kits and satellite phones as part of the quest. He also ...Read more

"Despicable Me 4" had a strong showing at the top of the box office this weekend as family films continue to drive returns for studios and movie theaters.

The fourth installment of the Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment animated franchise raked in $75 million in the U.S. and Canada, according to three-day estimates from ...Read more

“Machete” star Danny Trejo has opened up about his viral Fourth of July melee, insisting that he was targeted by water balloon-throwing parade spectators because of his race.

“I’m so sad that I behaved the way I behaved,” the action movie star told TMZ. “I’m so sad that a group of men have to throw water balloons to enjoy their ...Read more

Sheryl Lee Ralph and her family are safe and praying the sun will come out tomorrow.

The "Abbott Elementary" star on Tuesday solicited prayers from her home in Jamaica as she prepared to ride out Hurricane Beryl, which swept along the island's southern coast on Wednesday night, bringing more than 12 hours of heavy rain. After making landfall on...Read more

Elisa Jordana, an internet personality and former writer for the “Howard Stern Show,” has pleaded guilty to battering her then-boyfriend during a YouTube livestream.

Jordana, whose real name is Elisa Ann Schwartz, was arrested back in April, shortly after her broadcast — titled “Not Doing Good” — hit the internet, the Palm Beach ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — “Machete” star and Trejo’s Tacos entrepreneur Danny Trejo engaged in a brawl during a Fourth of July celebration in Sunland-Tujunga.

The fight broke out Thursday during a parade hosted by a local Rotary Club, where the 80-year-old action star was a guest. Trejo was driving a white, convertible low-rider in the parade but ...Read more

Actress Vanessa Hudgens confirmed the birth of her first child while chastising paparazzi for photographing the actress and husband Cole Tucker as they left the hospital this week with their newborn.

The “High School Musical” alum, 35, didn’t mince words as she confirmed the news in an Instagram story Thursday.

“We’re disappointed ...Read more

'Sprint'

Unless we're in the midst of the Summer Olympics, I pay attention to humans running really fast only when DC Comics churns out a new movie about the Flash. That's why this six-part docuseries about the lead-up to the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, was so educational — and so thrilling. Unlike other sports ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After the deeply divisive reception of "The Birth of a Nation," director D.W. Griffith released "Broken Blossoms," in which a young, abused girl finds comfort in the company of a kind Chinese man. The 1919 silent film, based on Thomas Burke's short story "The Chink and the Child" and also known as "The Yellow Man and the Girl," ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When I became a television critic for the Los Angeles Times, way back in early 2007, many people told me it was a Very Bad Idea. Why would I give up a job as a film writer to review TV? Didn't I know "The Sopranos" was ending? And that, with a few notable exceptions, original scripted television was dead, murdered by reality TV ...Read more