The Los Angeles Times received numerous honors in the Los Angeles Press Club’s 18th annual National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards competition. The awards, which were presented at a ceremony ...

Running time: 115 minutes. Rated PG-13 (strong language, some sexual material and drug content). In theaters. In the pantheon of James L. Brooks films, “Ella McCay” is far from as good as it gets.

It’s been 15 years since Oscar-winning director James L. Brooks has released a film, and his absence has been felt. The architect of classics like Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News and As Good as It ...

Variety won 20 first-place trophies Sunday night at the 18th annual National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, up from the 14 the publication scored in last year’s competition. Variety was ...

James L. Brooks’ new comedy “Ella McCay” is such a nice movie that the fact that it isn’t really very good doesn’t matter much; you enjoy watching it, even though when it’s over you’ll struggle to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Film fans like to lament: They don’t make them like they used to, specifically the kind of wry, life-affirming ...

James L. Brooks had his first encounter with showbiz royalty as a student journalist at Weehawken High School in New Jersey in the 1950s, when he managed to wrangle a one-on-one interview with ...