President Donald J. Trump leads a video teleconference monitoring current tropical storm conditions and damage assessments in southeastern Texas, Sunday, August 27, 2017, from a conference room at Camp David, near Thurmont, MD. President Trump will visit Texas on Tuesday in the wake of catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Harvey, the …

“I figured I was paying two bucks a ticket, a dollar and a half a ticket, and I was getting about 10 cents’ worth of scare,” he said in “Masters of Horror,” a 2002 documentary. Then a friend steered him to “Night of the Living Dead,” the 1968 film by …

Rick Wilking / Reuters A ranch house is surrounded by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey near Port Lavaca, Texas, August 26, 2017 The National Weather Service now says some parts of Houston and just west of the city may receive a Texas record of 50 inches (1270 millimeters) of rain as …

So the only new movies arriving in wide release over the weekend (1,500 screens or more) were from independents. The Weinstein Company booked an animated film called “Leap!” into 2,575 theaters and collected about $5 million, according to comScore. BH Tilt and WWE Studios rolled out a micro-budgeted kung fu …

Hector Vivas | LatinContent | Getty Images Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto walks with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump after a meeting on Aug. 31, 2016, in Mexico City. U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his threat to scrap NAFTA and ripped on trading partners Canada and Mexico in a tweet early …

Photo Dave Malloy in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” in 2013. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times The skies over Broadway will be darker come Sunday, Sept. 3, when one of the brightest shows to blaze there in many seasons, Dave Malloy’s “Natasha, Pierre & the Great …

Photo Rupert Friend in Season 5 of “Homeland.” Credit Stephan Rabold/Showtime Some fans of Showtime’s “Homeland” remain so upset about a major character’s death, more than four months ago, that they took out a full-page ad this week in The Hollywood Reporter to express their lingering anger. Now one of …

Photo Keegan-Michael Key as Horatio in a Sam Gold-directed “Hamlet” at the Public Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages — and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are …

Kevin Winter | WireImage | Getty Images Taylor Swift performs during The 58th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 15, 2016 in Los Angeles. Spotify says Taylor Swift has set a new global first day streaming record. The music delivery site said Saturday it had logged more than 8 …

Then a gift from my father arrived in the mail. He had rescued a few of my favorites. Robert McCloskey’s “Blueberries for Sal.” “The Polar Express.” “Katie and the Smallest Bear,” inscribed with a note in my mother’s handwriting, marking its purchase in Camden, Me. on May 4, 1986, three …