When the time came to cast the 4-year-old titular character for “A Kid Like Jake,” director Silas Howard made a proclamation: “I’d love to have an actor who loves dresses and beautiful things,” he said. “I’d love Jake to be a princess-loving boy [in real life].” Given that the film, opening in...

When women's naked breasts appear in Julie Curtiss’ curious, terrific paintings at Various Small Fires, they do so rather unexpectedly. They are unnaturally conical — fetishized, certainly, but also strangely weaponized. Where fingernails appear in the works, they extend like long flames, purp..

The UCLA Hammer Museum’s much-anticipated biennial survey of new art produced in the city has just opened its fourth iteration. “Made in L.A. 2018” is the best one yet. Part of the reason comes from simple, dramatic contrast. Since the show’s last outing in 2016, American society has been plunged....

Warner Bros. is about to find out if there’s another box-office gem in the “Ocean’s” saga. The Burbank-based studio this weekend will release its female-led reboot of the successful heist franchise, more than a decade after the most recent film in the star-studded series. The new “Ocean’s 8,” starr..

Composer Michael Hersch, who battled cancer in 2007 at age 36, was composing an elegy to a close friend who died of ovarian cancer at 45 when he got the news: His wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. "It was such a surreal experience," Hersch said. "There are a lot of collisions that are hard...

When the time came to cast the 4-year-old titular character for “A Kid Like Jake,” director Silas Howard made a proclamation: “I’d love to have an actor who loves dresses and beautiful things,” he said. “I’d love Jake to be a princess-loving boy [in real life].” Given that the film, opening in...

When it comes to enticing A-list production talent to the world of streaming television, Amazon Studios is showing that two can play this game. Amazon said Tuesday that it has signed a first-look deal with Jordan Peele and his production company Monkeypaw Productions, giving the writer-director...

Dinosaurs: Keep them alive or kill them off? It’s a question that haunts the human characters in between fireball-dodging cardio workouts in “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” the spectacularly ho-hum new entry in Hollywood’s longest-running parable about the fatal idiocy of messing with Mother...