Los Angeles Times: Movie

When Cole Sprouse left Hollywood, he didn’t think he’d ever come back. He was 18, and he’d been acting alongside his identical twin brother since they were in diapers. The choice to work as a kid had not been his own: His single mother wanted to be around for the boys and have a steady career,...

During what might be considered prime performing years, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre has gone from actrice to auteur. She racked up 15 film acting credits from 2007-2016, including working with Luc Besson, Julian Schnabel and Raoul Ruiz, despite time taken out for nonperforming pursuits.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

That frazzled mom leaning over her toddler, identifying characters and purveying snacks during a “Captain Marvel” showing in Torrance on Friday night? That was me. I took my 2-year-old daughter, whom I’ll simply call E, to see the latest Marvel blockbuster on opening night.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

At the beginning of “Us,” Jordan Peele’s latest assault on your nerves and expectations, we learn that thousands of miles of empty tunnels — abandoned train routes, mine shafts and the like — run beneath the continental United States.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A refugee’s life is one of lies, documents, betrayals, fear, fleeting tenderness and the desperate need, once everything has been stripped away, for reinvention across the borders of foreign lands.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

For years, starting with 2000’s “X-Men” and ramping up with Marvel Studios’ 2012 juggernaut “The Avengers,” comic book do-gooder team-ups have been all the rage on the big screen. Why have just one hero, the thinking goes, when you can have two (“Batman v Superman”) or six (“Justice League”) —...

It's a rare phenomenon for a director to remake their own movie, but this year, there are already two instances of filmmakers retrofitting their foreign-language darlings for American audiences. Hans Petter Moland turned his Scandinavian thriller “In Order of Disappearance” into the Liam Neeson...

Building on months of critical buzz, Mindy Kaling’s “Late Night” unveiled its first trailer on Thursday, further proof of her transformation from TV sensation into a creative force on the big screen, both in front of and behind the camera.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A work of unsparing toughness, moral acuity and bristling style, “A Prophet” (2009) put the French director Jacques Audiard squarely on the international map a decade ago. Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes and an Oscar nominee for best foreign-language film, this absorbing, thrillingly intricate...

There’s much to explore and dissect about the intriguing world that directors Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher spotlight in their documentary “The Gospel of Eureka,” but the film, strangely flabby at just 73 minutes, leaves us wanting.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share