Much of the discussion headed into this year's Cannes Film Festival revolved around the festival's controversial move to ban Netflix films (or any films not slated to open theatrically in France) from competition and the distinct lack of star-driven titles, particularly from the U.S. Now that this year's edition is complete, Times critics Justin...Read more

CHICAGO -- Award-winning poet, spoken word artist and author Tara Betts didn't think Chicago would ever call out singer R. Kelly about claims of abuse and sexual coercion of young women and girls after years of consistent hits had made him largely untouchable in his hometown.

"I never thought Chicago would get here," Betts said about the local ...Read more

Of all the young fans I talked to over the weekend at Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas -- about Avicii, about the massacre at last year's Route 91 country music festival, and about the music they were here to see regardless -- almost all of them had a similar feeling about the world right now.

It's all falling apart.

I haven't been a teenager...Read more

When ABC revived "American Idol," just two years after the curtain fell on its 15-season run on Fox, many wondered whether the show would be able to capture its old magic.

The show was years removed from its heyday, when 30 million viewers tuned in weekly to root (and vote) for aspiring singers like Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Adam ...Read more

Using a slip of a short story by Neil Gaiman, writer/director John Cameron Mitchell has whipped up "How to Talk to Girls at Parties," a deeply weird gender-queer alien cult environmentalism punk movie that's deeply indebted to the philosophy of yoga. From Mitchell, we wouldn't expect anything less.

Working with co-writer Philippa Goslett, ...Read more

The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of May 14:

1. Black Panther -- Disney

2. Fifty Shades Freed -- Universal

3. 12 Strong -- Warner

4. Peter Rabbit -- Sony

5. Den of Thieves -- Universal

6. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle -- Sony

7. Maze Runner: The Death Cure -- Fox

8. The Greatest Showman -- Fox

9. The Commuter -- ...Read more

Before he became a smug smuggler with a worn, light-speed spaceship and a furry Bigfoot companion, Han Solo wasn't even named Han Solo. And he certainly didn't have a princess as a girlfriend.

Where he began his hoodlum ways, how he crossed the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs and the ways that he adapted to a Galactic Empire full of blaster ...Read more

As Hollywood touts great wins for diversity and inclusion with recent films like "Black Panther" and "Wonder Woman" shattering box office records, a new study from GLAAD asserts that representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in 2017 films released by the major studios hit a six-year low.

As a result, the LGBTQ ...Read more

Late Saturday night at Electric Daisy Carnival, Omar Marruto leaned against the side of a concrete pillar on the track of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. All around him, tens of thousands of young EDM fans, wearing illuminated boots, beard glitter and X's of neon nipple tape bounded past him on the fest's man drag, Electric Avenue.

As he rested, ...Read more

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

MAY

22: Game Night

22: Red Sparrow

22: The 15:17 to Paris

22: Early Man

22: A Fantastic Woman

22: Wonderstruck

22: The Party

22: Call the Midwife: Season Seven

22: I Kill Giants

22: Masterpiece: Little Women DVD

29: Annihilation

29: I'm ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Ron Howard says his first thought when he took over as director of "Solo: A Star Wars Story" was the same as when it was announced he would be making a documentary on the Beatles. Both projects meant taking on the biggest icons in pop culture history.

"I could tell from the moment it was announced, 'Ron, don't (expletive) this up...Read more