"Ella McCay" is fun and will have you feeling nostalgic. It's worth watching, despite its notable flaws and poor critical ...

Its optimism is so refreshing, its dialogue so smart, and its characters and performances so endearing, it well rewards a ...

Film fans like to lament, “they don’t make them like they used to,” specifically about the kinds of wry, life-affirming ...

While “Zootopia 2” and “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” claw for the No. 1 spot at the North American box office this weekend, ...

Celebrated filmmaker James L. Brooks should have put the pen down before writing this extraordinarily confused story.

The Disney sequel passed $1 billion worldwide while the panned James L. Brooks comedy is set to open to just $2.2 million ...

There are many charming elements, including Jamie Lee Curtis, in the 85-year-old filmmaker's comeback but they don't add up ...

But this time the drama is on the other side of the media-government divide. The titular Ella (Emma Mackey) is a doe-eyed ...

"Ella McCay" star Emma Mackey spoke with Variety about working with James L. Brooks in honoring the Golden Age of Hollywood, ...

Writer-director James L. Brooks all but invented a warm, urbane way of telling complex women's stories, but his first movie ...

Filmed across Rhode Island, ‘Ella McCay’ blends politics and family drama; early screening thrills local crew.

It’s hard to understand how “Ella McCay,” the first original feature from writer-director Brooks in 15 years, goes so utterly ...