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“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is a surreal, color-saturated quest about healing childhood scars in order to have healthy adult relationships. It’s a corny road trip. Directed by the monomonikered Kogonada (“After Yang”) from a script by Seth Reiss, this sputtering high-concept love story is about two singletons, Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell),…

Book Review What We Can KnowBy Ian McEwanKnopf: 320 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In our fiercely tribal and divisive culture, when consensus is illusory and we can’t seem to agree on even the most fundamental facts,…

The hugely popular star of ABC’s lineup was known as an outspoken critic of the president of the United States. But when one comment sparked an outrage, the network moved swiftly to yank the entertainer off the air. It was May 2018, and the star was Roseanne Barr. Hollywood reacted in shock when ABC abruptly…

Out in theaters Friday, ‘Brownsville Bred’ is an intimate portrait of the actor, writer and director as a young girl in 1980s New York. When Elaine Del Valle was in the sixth grade, she starred in the lead role of Sandy in her school’s production of “Grease.” Decades later, she would return to that same…

Walt Disney Co.-owned broadcaster ABC said it is pulling “Jimmy Kimmel Live” indefinitely following sharp backlash over the host’s remarks about slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. The move comes after station owner Nexstar Media Group said it would yank the show from its ABC affiliate stations as a result of the comments. The Irving, Texas-based…

“The fame of the museum is spreading far and wide, and people are coming from all over the United States,” says the award-winning comedian and museum founder In 2022, the iconic L.A. comedian Cheech Marin opened an art museum with the hope of inspiring a Chicano art renaissance. “I looked around and said, ‘This could…

Hardcover fiction 1. The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $38) Symbologist Robert Langdon takes on a mystery involving human consciousness and ancient mythology. 2. Katabasis by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager: $35) The deluxe limited edition of a dark academia fantasy about two rival graduate students’ descent into hell. 3. Buckeye by Patrick…

MEXICO CITY — It was pouring buckets of rain at the Estadio GNP Seguros on Saturday night, when Oasis played one of two sold-out reunion shows in Mexico City. Lined at the entrance were tents stuffed with bootleg tour merch and fans seeking respite from the water. You could hear the sloshing of wet socks and Adidas…

The jeans. The flannel shirt. The silvery mutton chops peeking out from beneath a weather-beaten train engineer’s cap. Neil Young had dressed perfectly for the part of Neil Young on Monday night at the Hollywood Bowl, and he’d brought just the right songs too, among them “Harvest Moon,” “Ohio,” “Only Love Can Break Your Heart,”…

‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘The Conjuring’ appear to occupy the opposite ends of the franchise universe. But were they really so different after all?