Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire and Tim Cogshell review this weekend’s new movie releases.

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival kicked off last week and wraps up this Saturday in Santa Barbara.

15,100 films.That’s how many films were submitted to be in the annual Sundance Film Festival, which gets underway this weekend in the ski resort town of Park City, Utah.

The Senate impeachment trial goes into Day 3 as the House prosecution team continues to make their case for impeachment.

Do you think all emotional support animals should be allowed to fly? The Department of Transportation is considering changes to the rules that would allow airlines to ban emotional support animals and only allow service dogs trained to do specific tasks for those with disabilities on board.

Security deposits and background checks can be problemsome for renters. Large cash-only security deposits on top of first month’s rent can make it difficult for people to round up all the funds needed.

One of the biggest changes is that the Department of Transportation would no longer require airlines to consider emotional support animals as service animals, as they have in the past.

At Wednesday's arguments, a majority of the justices suggested a major expansion of public funding for parochial schools.

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers want to use intimate emails from his accusers to try to convince jurors in his rape trial that any contact was consensual, the defense said Tuesday as an appeals court rejected an 11th-hour request to move the trial out of town.

The U.S. Senate plunged into President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial with Republicans abruptly abandoning plans to cram opening arguments into two days but solidly rejecting for now Democratic demands for more witnesses to expose what they deem Trump’s “trifecta” of offenses.