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They were locked up 17 years ago for a murder. L.A.’s new district attorney is setting them free

LA Times

After spending 17 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit, Lombardo Palacios walks out of the Los Angeles County courthouse a free man with his mother, Claudia Ortiz. In a dramatic courtroom scene that one wrongly convicted woman called “a Christmas miracle,” a Los Angeles County judge on Friday vacated the murder sentences of two people — …

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Critics Choice Awards 2025: Full list of film and TV nominees

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Ralph Fiennes in ‘Conclave’ and Cynthia Erivo in ‘Wicked’ The full …

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Emilia Perez review: Oscar frontrunner is a reductive take on the trans experience – starring a miscast Selena Gomez

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It’s a frontrunner for Best Picture at the Oscars, a florid …

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4 weeks ago

Lyle Menendez's age gap romance with young British student in turmoil amid claims he is a 'prison wife' to muscle-bound convict

Daily Mail

Convicted killer Lyle Menendez is reportedly the 'prison wife' of another muscle-bound, goateed convict, despite being in a relationship with a British university student. Lyle Menendez, 56, is said to have become a 'prison wife' to another inmate at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego, California, where he is serving out his life sentence for killing his …

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4 weeks ago

Menendez brothers should be freed, two of their murdered parents’ sisters tell court

LA Times

A decision on whether to resentence brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez for the shotgun killings of their parents was delayed Monday until after the holidays. With the two brothers attending Monday’s hearing via a web link, Jesic allowed two family matriarchs — the oldest sisters of Jose and Kitty Menendez — to provide testimony in person. “I think it’s time …

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Marriage, service, TikTok fame: How the Menendez brothers spent 34 years in prison

LA Times

Erik Menendez, center, listens to his attorney Leslie Abramson, as his brother Lyle looks on in Beverly Hills in 1991. “The methodology to study that case is the same whether it gets media attention or not,” Hochman said Saturday on “Fox & Friends.” “You got to speak to the prosecutors, law enforcement, victim family members and the defense, and only …

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1 month ago

Menendez brother's prison romance with 35-years-younger blonde British student

Daily Mail

Convicted murderer Lyle Menendez is having a clandestine fling from his prison cell with a British university student he met online, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Lyle Menendez, 56, started an affair with 21-year-old British university student Milly Bucksey and had her come all the way from Manchester to visit him in prison on September 14 Lyle's secret affair with the …

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Want to sit in on the Menendez brothers’ hearing? The lottery is Monday

LA Times

The Los Angeles Superior Court will be implementing a lottery system to manage the eager crowds vying to watch convicted murders Eric and Lyle Menendez return to the court to seek a downgrade to their charges, possibly leading to their release. Lottery tickets will be distributed outside the courthouse from 8 to 9 a.m. Monday and the drawing will be …

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1 month ago

The 2025 Oscars BuzzMeter: What’s getting the buzz so far?

LA Times

The Buzz is back! Mike Leigh — “Hard Truths” “Because of the scale and scope of ‘The Brutalist,’ Venice best director winner Brady Corbet could beat out Sean Baker and Jacques Audiard, but it’s a close race. Marianne Jean-Baptiste — “Hard Truths” “It’s ‘Anora’ vs. ‘Emilia Pérez’ again as Mikey Madison and Karla Sofía Gascón battle. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor — “Nickel …

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Newsom delays Menendez brothers clemency decision until after LA's new DA Hochman reviews the case

Daily Mail

California governor Gavin Newsom will delay a decision on whether to grant the Menendez brothers clemency until after Los Angeles' new DA reviews the case. The current DA, George Gascón, asked a judge last month to resentence Lyle and Erik, who were sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in 1996 for the first degree murder of Jose and …

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1 month ago

It’s hard to pin down the music of ‘Emilia Pérez’

LA Times

“Emilia Pérez” is not what most would conjure when thinking of a movie musical. They crafted a suite of songs in a spectrum of genres, including two that demonstrate the film’s range: the self-actualization pop ballad “Mi Camino,” performed by Gomez, as the wife of the cartel boss, via karaoke; and the showstopping, rock-rap denunciation of poisonous hypocrisy, “El Mal,” …

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1 month ago

Column: Voters sent a clear message to Newsom, Democrats: We’re fed up

LA Times

Gavin Newsom in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. “People don’t want to be told that crime rates are low when razor blades and hair spray have to be locked up,” Republican strategist Rob Stutzman says. Democratic consultant Steve Maviglio says, “The election was a real slap in the face to the governor and Legislature — telling them that they are …

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1 month ago

Column: Gascón, ousted as L.A. County top prosecutor, was his own worst enemy

LA Times

Los Angeles County Dist. “I had people calling me two months after Gascón won asking, ‘Why is crime going up?’ He hadn’t even gotten into office yet,” civil rights attorney Connie Rice told me Thursday. “He didn’t come in and say, ‘Anyone who needs to be charged for a violent third strike will be charged, but what I am going …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Netflix viewers left baffled by new Selena Gomez film: ‘This is not a real movie’

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A new musical crime thriller on Netflix starring Selena Gomez and …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Why California Voters Rejected Criminal Justice Reform

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING In the past decade, California’s incarceration rate has dropped about 30%. “The other side co-opted reform messaging,” said Anne Irwin, the director of Smart Justice California, a progressive criminal justice reform group. “Those are an anomaly, they happen, they are part of the public consciousness, but going forward those aren’t necessarily the people who are going to …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez’s Netflix movie is a musical about a trans drug lord. It … rips?

Slate

From the first frames of Emilia Pérez, writer-director Jacques Audiard makes it clear this is going to be a musical. The story, part crime caper, part domestic melodrama, part meditation on the mystery of selfhood, will involve suspense, disguised identity, the search for redemption, tragic hubris—a full complement of themes from genres as divergent as film noir and the kind …

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1 month, 1 week ago

‘Emilia Pérez’ wouldn’t work without Karla Sofía Gascón. Now, she could make trans history

Associated Press

TORONTO — Karla Sofía Gascón’s performance in “Emilia Pérez” as a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirmation surgery to become a woman has brought her global acclaim and set Gascón on a path that may make her the first openly transgender actor ever nominated for an Oscar. There are things that make you happy and instead they make you …

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1 month, 1 week ago

'Emilia Pérez' wouldn't work without Karla Sofía Gascón. Now, she could make trans history

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Karla Sofía Gascón’s performance in …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Emilia Pérez movie review: Karla Sofia Gascón and Zoe Saldaña’s narco-musical melange is an acquired taste

The Hindu

French director Jacques Audiard embarks on his latest jaunt that’s part telenovela, part musical, and entirely a potpourri of genre-hopping that meanders between amusing and exhausting. If a film about a ruthless Mexican drug lord turned flamboyant philanthropist through gender-affirming surgery sounds outlandish, rest assured, Audiard’s first tryst with the musical genre is unapologetically, sometimes breathtakingly, so. At the film’s …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Top contenders to lead the Senate. And, Trump's DOJ priorities

NPR

Top contenders to lead the Senate. NPR's Carrie Johnson says top priorities for Trump's new DOJ would involve his plans to pardon people involved in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. 🎧 Over the past four years, the Biden administration has focused on rebuilding alliances, expanding NATO, and countering China's influence since taking office after Trump, NPR's Asma Khalid …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: I voted for George Gascón in 2020. I’m glad to see him defeated in 2024.

LA Times

To the editor: In the 2020 election, I voted for George Gascón for district attorney in the hope that he might reform the justice system in Los Angeles County and take a more humane approach to those arrested, especially the many minority youths caught up in it. The outgoing district attorney, defeated by Nathan Hochman, never seemed to grasp the …

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'Emilia Pérez' trans narco musical actress calls for 'living our own life'

NPR

'Emilia Pérez' trans narco musical actress calls for 'living our own life' toggle caption Shanna Besson/Page 114, Why Not Productions, Pathé Films, France 2 Cinéma Karla Sofia Gascón is living the time of her life. Sponsor Message When we first meet Gascón's character, she is known as "Manitas" del Monte, a Mexican cartel leader who rules by fear and deadly …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

California voters turn away from progressive criminal justice policies

China Daily

By RENA LI in Los Angeles | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-11-08 12:14 In a rebuke of progressive criminal justice policies, California voters on Tuesday rejected a lenient approach by some elected officials and also approved an anti-crime ballot question. From Los Angeles to Oakland, election results showed that Californians are prioritizing public safety, in a shift toward more traditional approaches …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: California doesn’t have to choose between public safety and criminal justice reform

LA Times

California voters decided this week to roll back criminal justice reforms and appeared to be ousting progressive prosecutors in Los Angeles and Alameda counties, effectively reversing decisions they made as recently as 2020 and 2022. While the approval of Proposition 36 and the loss of two reform-minded district attorneys are setbacks, a broader outlook suggests public opinion still favors a …

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They were locked up 17 years ago for a murder. L.A.’s new district attorney is setting them free

Critics Choice Awards 2025: Full list of film and TV nominees

Emilia Perez review: Oscar frontrunner is a reductive take on the trans experience – starring a miscast Selena Gomez

Lyle Menendez's age gap romance with young British student in turmoil amid claims he is a 'prison wife' to muscle-bound convict

Menendez brothers should be freed, two of their murdered parents’ sisters tell court

Marriage, service, TikTok fame: How the Menendez brothers spent 34 years in prison

Menendez brother's prison romance with 35-years-younger blonde British student

Want to sit in on the Menendez brothers’ hearing? The lottery is Monday

The 2025 Oscars BuzzMeter: What’s getting the buzz so far?

Newsom delays Menendez brothers clemency decision until after LA's new DA Hochman reviews the case

It’s hard to pin down the music of ‘Emilia Pérez’

Column: Voters sent a clear message to Newsom, Democrats: We’re fed up

Column: Gascón, ousted as L.A. County top prosecutor, was his own worst enemy

Netflix viewers left baffled by new Selena Gomez film: ‘This is not a real movie’

Why California Voters Rejected Criminal Justice Reform

Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez’s Netflix movie is a musical about a trans drug lord. It … rips?

‘Emilia Pérez’ wouldn’t work without Karla Sofía Gascón. Now, she could make trans history

'Emilia Pérez' wouldn't work without Karla Sofía Gascón. Now, she could make trans history

Emilia Pérez movie review: Karla Sofia Gascón and Zoe Saldaña’s narco-musical melange is an acquired taste

Top contenders to lead the Senate. And, Trump's DOJ priorities

Letters to the Editor: I voted for George Gascón in 2020. I’m glad to see him defeated in 2024.

'Emilia Pérez' trans narco musical actress calls for 'living our own life'

California voters turn away from progressive criminal justice policies

Editorial: California doesn’t have to choose between public safety and criminal justice reform