Arts & Life

So over time, Vinson has moved toward making movies backed by intellectual property. He was the executive producer of the so-bad-it-was-good ‘‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’’ (2013), which barely broke even domestically but went on to record a worldwide gross of $226 million. He also produced the ‘‘Journey To’’ franchise …

Revelations about the blacklist have infuriated the public, fueling widespread accusations that Ms. Park was taking South Korea back to the time when her father, the military dictator Park Chung-hee, ruled by gagging dissidents. For months, protesters gathered in huge weekend rallies in center of the capital, Seoul, demanding Ms. …

Lorraine gets plenty of opportunities to mix it up in Berlin, where the story soon turns into spy versus spy with washes of lurid color, topsy-turvy camerawork, loads of crashing cars and wall-to-wall pounding tunes. The airborne cars pirouette prettily, bashing and smashing with all the technological expertise production money …

Photo Patti Harrison told Jimmy Fallon: “I don’t necessarily want to serve in the military, but I want the right to serve. It’s like, I don’t want to go to your baby shower, but I want the invite.” Credit NBC Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets …

Photo “Moses and the Brazen Serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus,” 1683, by Cristóbal de Villalpando, an altarpiece in “Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credit Cristóbal de Villalpando, Collection Propiedad de la Nación Mexicana, Secretaría de Cultura. Bound up the steps …

WASHINGTON — Question for the day posed by a timely exhibition: Would someone who lived in a so-called inner city picture it differently than an outsider would? “Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography,” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum here, an exhibition organized by E. Carmen …

Photo Claudia Michelsen and Wotan Wilke Möhring, far right, in “The Silence.” Credit Music Box Films Seeking a chill as temperatures rise? Stream some spine-tingling thrillers from the safety of your sofa. But first, hide your Ouija board. What’s Streaming THE SILENCE (2013) on Shudder. In 1986 an 11-year-old girl …

“I know there are stereotypes: They eat cans and smell bad,” said William Kowalik, a representative of the American Goat Society. “That’s not true. They are very much like dogs. They are great pets. The goats know what kind of mood you are in. They can get a person to …

Yet the gap here isn’t just between the drab lives and the opalescent music. It also yawns between the thrill of this production when it sings and its perversely melodramatic flatness when it’s behaving like a traditional play. Photo Arinze Kene, center, in Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country.” …

As it showcases its wares, Rio Tinto invites a select few collectors, wealthy people, dealers and others to submit sealed bids for the stones in the batch. It is a selling process that has few peers in opaqueness. Besides Rio Tinto, no one knows how much bidders offer for the …