When "Easy A" debuted in 2010, it spoke frankly about teenagers' sex lives, captured the zeitgeist pastime of vlogging and solidified Emma Stone as a movie star.

Nearly a decade after the release of that romantic comedy, a spinoff movie is in the works, The Times has confirmed. Bert Royal, who wrote the original movie's script, is writing and ...Read more

Six months after he posted the song on the internet, three months after Billboard said it wasn't a country song and two months after it went to No. 1 on the Hot 100 -- where it's stayed put ever since, fending off would-be chart-toppers from superstars like Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran -- Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" has finally been embraced by ...Read more

Rose-Lynn Harlan, the fiery-haired heroine of the hugely satisfying kitchen-sink fairy tale "Wild Rose," isn't the kind of gal who whistles while she works. She sings while she vacuums, running the cleaner across the carpet and crooning her favorite country tunes, her voice a startling distillation of raw talent and emotion. She closes her eyes ...Read more

Move over, Annabelle, the original scary doll is back. Flame-haired talking toddler Chucky returns to the big screen in a reboot of "Child's Play," helmed by Norwegian horror director Lars Klevberg, and starring Gabriel Bateman as Andy, Chucky's new best friend (ironically, Bateman's sister Talitha starred in "Annabelle: Creation"). This is a ...Read more

In a remarkably singular and widely influential career, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has never stopped exploring and evolving. Each new film contains his trademark droll humor, observant visual style and purposefully underplayed performances. From frequent road trips to a period western, a contemporary samurai film, an espionage thriller or a vampire ...Read more

ALADDIN. 2.5 stars. Will Smith is a genie who grants wishes to a young man who's fallen in love with a princess in Disney's live-action "Aladdin." 2 hrs. 8 PG (thematic elements) -- Gary Thompson

ALL IS TRUE. 3 stars. In his final days, Will Shakespeare returns to the town of his birth to reconcile with his family in "All Is True," starring ...Read more

Keanu Reeves, the internet's latest boyfriend and "the most wholesome person alive," is being championed for Time Magazine's Person of the Year honorific, according to a fan petition.

It's the latest in the "John Wick 3" star's auspicious summer run, which includes a breakout cameo as a heightened version of himself in the Netflix comedy "...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Lee Carter was mowing the lawn of the beige stucco Los Angeles home he's lived in for more than three decades Friday when he heard pops.

His grandson, who had been moving his car out of the driveway and onto the street, had been shot multiple times. Paramedics took him to a hospital, where he later died.

Now his family and the ...Read more

Ava DuVernay is not the least bit surprised that President Trump has doubled down on his stance regarding the men collectively labeled the Central Park Five, whose wrongful conviction in the 1989 rape and assault of Trisha Meili, and later exoneration, are recounted in the Netflix docudrama "When They See Us."

"It's expected," she said with a ...Read more

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: "The Red Line" was so good. Why was it canceled?

A: CBS apparently lost faith in the much-praised series even before it went on the air as was indicated in the various descriptions of the show. It was initially announced simply as a drama when CBS unveiled its programming plans a year ago, suggesting...Read more

After a three-week slump for Hollywood, it looks like theater owners have a friend in Pixar.

"Toy Story 4," the Walt Disney Co.-owned computer animation pioneer's latest sequel, is expected to open with $140 million to $150 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada this weekend, according to people who have seen prerelease audience surveys...Read more