LOS ANGELES -- Sasha Luss walked into the private screening room with a cocktail in hand, ready to watch herself in her first major movie. It was a quiet Thursday afternoon when she arrived at Soho House, and her birthday. She was 27 and had spent the morning celebrating at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

But even though Luss' film, "Anna,...Read more

It's easy to question the necessity of another "Toy Story" movie, especially after the emotionally devastating "Toy Story 3." Arriving nine years later, "Toy Story 4" has to earn its relevance. It does so in spades, with astonishingly beautiful animation, smart humor and a story filled with the kind of pathos and poignancy we expect. In a summer...Read more

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

JUNE

18: Us

18: Wonder Park

18: Hotel Mumbai

18: No Manches Frida 2

18: Run the Race

18: The Beach Bum

18: Hale County This Morning, This Evening

18: Under the Silver Lake

18: Crypto

18: Giant Little Ones

18: Killing Eve: Season Two

18: ...Read more

A major miscue and a magnificent accomplishment from Disney are among this week's list of new DVD and Blu-ray offerings.

"Dumbo"; 1.5 stars: The original 1941 animated Disney classic film showed how the little elephant with floppy ears came to realize he was not a misfit through the support of his family and a close friend. The story was ...Read more

How did an apparently sincere tribute turn into such a weirdly clueless vanity project?

The music scene evoked in the documentary "Echo in the Canyon" remains a chimerical wonder, equal parts bliss and chaos. In the 1960s, a daisy chain of like-minded songwriters and performers moved to the winding-road Eden up and over from Hollywood Boulevard...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Officials are seeking victims of human trafficking linked to a YouTube rapper from Los Angeles who was arrested last week on charges of pimping and pandering an Orange County woman.

Angel Ortiz Diamond, 31, was charged with one felony count of pimping and one felony count of pandering. Diamond, who goes by the name Benjiboy ...Read more

Gloria Vanderbilt, the heiress and "poor little rich girl" in a sensational 1930s custody trial who survived a famously disjointed childhood to become an actress, artist, designer and author, has died. She was 95.

Her death was announced Monday via a CNN report voiced by anchor Anderson Cooper, her son. CNN reported that she died at her home ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The Electronic Entertainment Expo has never been subtle.

But the event, hosted by the trade group representing the video game industry -- the body designed to present the community's best image to Congress and the public at large -- got right to the point this year in its on-site messaging at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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Baroness

"Gold & Grey"

(Abraxan Hymns )

Baroness may well be Philly's most beloved working band. Leader and in-demand visual artist John Baizley miraculously survived a tour bus crash so traumatic that his original rhythm section quit afterward. And five albums into a hot streak that's won him plaudits and converts who don't normally ...Read more

PASADENA, Calif. -- Where can you plunder comedy and drama in the same place? Hospitals, workplaces and neighborhoods have all been tried in television, and so have hotels. TV has mined that ore hundreds of times, from the loony digs in "Fawlty Towers" to the ritzy clientele of "Hotel."

Bob Newhart hosted an inn in "Newhart." The mob explored ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood sequels have crashed and burned at the box office this summer, with just a handful of notable exceptions.

Sony's "Men in Black: International," a spinoff of the Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones franchise, continued the trend, debuting in first place with a disappointing $28.5 million, according to estimates from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- "Nobody is getting their head cut off," Zendaya says. She's referring to the hubbub over her latest project: "Euphoria," HBO's unflinching portrait of teen life.

It's true. There aren't the beheadings viewers came to expect from "Game of Thrones." But that doesn't mean the new HBO drama isn't raising eyebrows.

The first episode ...Read more

Games, multiple companies at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) have told us, are for everyone. Fine, but only because anyone who says they don't play games is lying. After all, game-like tricks are often required to simply get through the day. And technology is only making it worse.

Maybe you struck a pose for the sole purpose of ...Read more

CHICAGO -- It's a question I've been hearing for decades, applied to any number of seasoned performers I've covered:

Why are they still working?

I heard it plenty when Frank Sinatra was deep into his 70s, still selling out arenas around the world. Also when Cab Calloway was in his 80s, joyously strutting up and down the stage snarling "Minnie ...Read more

An attorney for Cuba Gooding Jr. is refuting conclusions some have drawn from a surveillance video showing the actor touching a woman who has accused him of groping her.

The snippet, obtained and published by TMZ on Thursday, appears to show the actor at Manhattan's Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge putting his hand on or near the woman's leg and...Read more