Could the Netflix Movie ‘Lost Girls’ Find a Serial Murderer?

The Los Angeles that TV and movies portray is rarely, as anyone who’s actually from Los Angeles can tell you, particularly accurate to life there outside the entertainment industry. The sprawling city is dense with its own culture, much of which, thanks to sharp influxes money and new (whiter) residents, is perpetually in danger of getting pushed out.

Debbie Harry, Charlie Wilson, Hiatus Kaiyote and Sheryl Crow are among the performers who will grace the stage during the Hollywood Bowl’s 2020 Jazz Plus concert series. Curated by the LA Phil’s creative chair for jazz Herbie Hancock—who will also headline one of the shows—the series will begin on July 29 and run through Sept. 23.

Soundgarden's attorneys have accused Universal Music Group of "improper discovery gamesmanship" after being told that only 19 artists -- including Nirvana, Beck, R.E.M, Sheryl Crow, Bryan Adams and Elton John among others -- had masters destroyed or damaged in the fire.

Neon has purchased North American rights to Josephine Decker’s “Shirley,” a drama about novelist Shirley Jackson that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Elisabeth Moss as Jackson, a writer whose work intertwined elements of the macabre with sly social commentary, most notably in her short story “The Lottery.”

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The final lineup of 2020 Oscars presenters has been announced.

A rep for Sheryl Sandberg has revealed that the Facebook COO is updating her online status to engaged!

As is the case every month, it's out with the old and in with the new at Netflix, as a number of films and TV shows are set to leave the streamer in February.The first title to be taken off of Netflix in the upcoming month is Clouds of Sils Maria, which will be available to stream until Feb.

Netflix has extended its deal with Adam Sandler and his Happy Madison Productions for four more films.

Lakeith Stanfied is a huge Joker fan — and can't wait to take on the role one day.

Netflix seriously raised the bar on the true-crime police procedural with Unbelievable, its shattering, forensically detailed miniseries about the hunt for a serial rapist. That standard of excellence does no favors to this poorly scripted feature from the streaming platform, based on the unsolved Long Island Serial Killer case in which more than a dozen sex workers were murdered over a period of almost 20 years.

It’s exciting, and fascinating, to see a great director of documentaries try his or her hand at a dramatic feature, since in theory the essential skill set should all be there. The best documentarians possess an acute visual sense, and they are all, of course, potent storytellers.

By Dino-Ray Ramos