Jack Jones

Amber Parker watched on television as the storm near her home grew into a tornado threat. Then, when the roaring wind outside suddenly fell silent, she grabbed her two toddlers and rushed to get under the stairwell. "We just got inside the door frame...

People who don't like "Chapter 27," an undeniably clammy little picture, really, really don't like it. It's a small achievement, more like a filmed play than a fully conceived film, but I found writer-director Jarrett Schaefer's fly-on-the-wall...

(C) People who don't like Chapter 27, an undeniably clammy little picture, really, really don't like it. It's a small achievement, more like a filmed play than a fully conceived film, but I found writer-director J.P. Schaefer's fly-on-the-wall treatment...

People who don't like "Chapter 27," an undeniably clammy little picture, really, really don't like it. It's a small achievement, more like a filmed play than a fully conceived film, but I found writer-director Jarrett Schaefer's fly-on-the-wall...

From The Times: Feb. 8, 1972 "To be a director, you simply say to an actor — COME IN THAT DOOR, and walk across the middle of the room. "And then you say to the actress — come in this room and walk across to the middle of the room. "You tell the...

If you're like us, you've about had it with these new small plate eateries featuring skimpy portions at not-so-skimpy prices. So, we decided to take a cue from the upswing of interest in Spanish cuisine and check out the original small platers, tapas....

People often go looking for deeper meaning in art--a physical formation of that intangible element that we call truth. The Assassination of Richard Nixon probes modern humanity's relationship with truth and finds it wanting. In fact, the real truth is...

2½ stars (out of 4) In "The Assassination of Richard Nixon," Sean Penn plays a Dostoyevskian Everyman, a hapless would-be presidential killer sinking into a purgatory of futility, madness and delusions of sick grandeur. It's a tribute to Penn's talent...

Dark and eerily resonant, Niels Mueller's "The Assassination of Richard Nixon," partly based on a true story, crawls under your skin and amps up the agitation until you want to jump out of it. A portrait of a particular kind of workaday American angst...

In many ways, the Corner Grille is just your average diner: The menu bears headings like "From the Griddle" and "Melts and More"; the metal tables are topped with sugar shakers and jelly caddies; servers weave among the tables balancing plates along their...