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Jan 13, 2025 | 
msn.com | Lisa Rosen
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
latimes.com | Lisa Rosen
A great movie title sets you up for a great moviegoing experience. Our introduction to the tale about to unfold, it can be clever, insightful or silly — but most crucially, it should be memorable. A tepid title blows that one chance to engage viewers from the first word. Here’s a rundown of some of this season’s more well-wrought titles — along with a few missed opportunities.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Lisa Rosen
“Saturday Night,” the film, envisions the whirl of chaos that took hold in the 90 minutes before “NBC’s Saturday Night,” the show, premiered nearly 50 years ago. Later to be called “Saturday Night Live,” the series debuted in October 1975, and TV audiences hadn’t seen anything like it, nor did they know the cast that would soon become iconic.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
aarp.org | Lisa Rosen
Video: Grandpa Danny DeVito is Bursting in the ‘Joy Department’ Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Danny DeVito, best known for his comedic roles, first made his mark in the 1975 drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Lisa Rosen
FX’s “English Teacher” is equal parts funny, sweet and raunchy, mining laughs from divisive cultural issues and messy relationships that aren’t usually seen on television. For all that, creator-showrunner-star Brian Jordan Alvarez gives credit to pretty much everyone around him. Alvarez has been acting, writing, directing and producing songs, sketches and series for years online.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Lisa Rosen
When “Hacks” began three seasons ago, young writer Ava Daniels, played by young stand-up comic Hannah Einbinder, was a precocious if hubristic talent, reluctantly paired with veteran diva comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart). Their thorny collaboration brought out the best work from both of them. As the second season ended, Deborah’s career reached new heights — and then she fired Ava to force her out on her own. But these two can’t quit each other, as Season 3 proves.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
aol.com | Lisa Rosen
August 5, 2024 at 3:00 AM"That's what stand-ups do: We say something that upsets you, and then the next minute you're laughing. And that's what Ava is doing as well," Janelle James says of her sometimes outrageous "Abbott Elementary" character. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)As soon as Janelle James read for the role of the cheerfully self-absorbed chaos queen that is Principal Ava Coleman on "Abbott Elementary," she had her down.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
msn.com | Lisa Rosen
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Lisa Rosen
As soon as Janelle James read for the role of the cheerfully self-absorbed chaos queen that is Principal Ava Coleman on “Abbott Elementary,” she had her down. “I know this chick,” James recalls thinking when she read the script. “This lady is so hilarious. I could see her and her movements. I’ve always been interested in people who want to be famous, so I was excited about that, because that’s very not me.”That’s not the only way James is unlike her character, a fan favorite.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Lisa Rosen
A meet-cute it ain’t. When brilliant, arrogant chemist Calvin Evans (Lewis Pullman) first encounters brilliant, guarded lab tech Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson) in “Lessons in Chemistry,” the sparks are practically toxic. But when he sees her again at a work event, and then starts vomiting at her feet from an allergic reaction to another guest’s perfume, she takes him home and cares for him, and both their wary hearts start to crack open. He teaches her to row. She feeds him exquisite meals.
