Andrew Ewell’s ‘Set for Life’ doesn’t live up to its potential
Book Review Set for Life By Andrew EwellSimon & Schuster: 256 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn…
Review: Sanaz Toossi’s sensitively acted drama ‘English’
San Diego — “English” by Sanaz Toossi, an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2023. Modest in scope, the…
‘Brushstroke’ review: Art, espionage and Cold War history converge
History, as we’re learning hourly from the example of Donald Trump, can really stretch credulity. If you had pitched his unlikely political story to a…
‘Ferrari,’ ‘The Woman in the Wall’ and more to watch now
Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who’s been sleeping on “Ferrari.” As staff writer Mark Olsen explains in this week’s Catch Up, Michael…
Jane Levy, Alexandra Billings star in ‘POTUS’ at Geffen Playhouse
Farce, particularly of the bedroom variety, has traditionally leaned male. A prototypical situation involves a playboy type trying to keep two women apart on a…
Bad but entertaining, 'Miller's Girl,' starring Jenna Ortega, is pure unintentional camp
Martin Freeman y Jenna Ortega en una escena de Millers Girl. (Zac Popik/Lionsgate) Bad but entertaining, 'Miller's Girl,' starring Jenna Ortega, is pure unintentional camp…
‘SNL’ recap: Dakota Johnson hosts and Justin Timberlake assists
Even if Dakota Johnson, the star of “Madame Web” and this week’s “Saturday Night Live” guest host, was in on the monologue joke that musical…
‘The Breaking Ice’ review: A restless trio comes together
To leave something behind doesn’t necessarily imply a sense of direction. That active limbo permeates writer-director Anthony Chen’s appealingly liquid “The Breaking Ice,” about a…
Sundance reviews: ‘A Real Pain,’ ‘A Different Man’
PARK CITY, Utah — The title of Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” a sharp, funny and moving highlight of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is an…
What to do, see and eat at Disneyland’s Lunar New Year celebration
Festival season has begun at the Disneyland Resort, with the annual Lunar New Year celebration landing at Disney California Adventure. Over the past decade, Disneyland’s…
Jeffrey Wright on his first Oscar nod for ‘American Fiction’
Long a stalwart supporting player and something of an actor’s actor, Jeffrey Wright received his first Oscar nomination on Tuesday for his lead performance in…