The Los Angeles Times

  • Carrie and Big at a bar on Sex and the City

    Toxic Masculinity and Big vs. Aidan: How ‘Sex and the City’s’ love triangle has aged

    “We’ve been in a long, 20-year process of undoing the allure of Mr. Big,” a feminist media scholar says.

  • Photo of Meg Ryan smiling

    Meg Ryan on heartbreak and the love language of rom-coms

    An interview with Meg Ryan about her long-awaited return to the genre in ‘What Happens Later’

  • Photo of  Keisha Zollar

    If Hollywood gets worse for workers, it will get worse for disabled workers first

    "They want to make us so desperate that we’ll take nothing and we’ll decline our way into economic oppression. And I’m happy that I am involved in two unions who say, ‘No, we can’t do this anymore.’”

  • Photo of Anna Kendrick looking in a mirror, a still from Alice Darling movie

    ‘I’m the evidence’: Anna Kendrick opens up about the abuse that shaped her new film

    Anna Kendrick’s latest film, “Alice, Darling,” didn’t need an emotional abuse consultant. Its emotional abuse consultant was Anna Kendrick.

  • Illustration of Kim Petras,  Greta Titelman from “Los Espookys”; Karena Flores, Flavio Medina, Fernanda Castillo and Juan Pablo Fuentes from “Isla Brava”; Rafael Amaya in “El Señor de los Cielos”; and Lionel Messi

    Not your abuela’s telenovelas: How Spanish-language streamers are shaking up TV

    On Spanish-language streaming platforms, call soapy drama what you like. Just don’t use the term “telenovela.”

  • Photo of Ana de Armas and Chris Evans in “Ghosted.”

    20 years after ‘Love Actually,’ a new rom-com blurs the line between sweet and ‘stalkerish’

    In Ghosted, Chris Evans pursues Ana de Armas — and lands them both in hot water. The filmmakers describe how they made an old trope do new tricks.

  • Photo of Rutina Wesley, Kofi Siriboe and Dawn-Lyen Gardner in “Queen Sugar.

    New Orleans’ film industry was a ‘secret club.’ ‘Queen Sugar’ blew its doors wide open

    Ava DuVernay’s commitment to diverse hiring practices extends to everyone on the call sheet — with ripple effects across the below-the-line community in the New Orleans area.

  • Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) and Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham) in “Ted Lasso.”

    Is ‘Ted Lasso’ over? Hannah Waddingham isn’t so sure

    The actor who plays Rebecca Welton discusses the season three finale, Tedbecca as soulmates and that AFC Richmond women's team scene with Keeley

  • Photo of Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) and Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham)

    Will Ted and Rebecca become a couple in ‘Ted Lasso’? These fans say they’re ‘soulmates’

    For a certain group of fervent “Ted Lasso” fans, football romance is life.