Academy Awards

Kon-Tiki, the Oscar Nominee About an Epic Rafting Trip, Now Has an English Language Version

Anthrax's Scott Ian on Why Horror Movies and Metal Go Together

Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian is playing songs from the band's 1987 thrash metal masterpiece Among The Living and their new covers record Anthems on tour right now. He's also taken on a second gig hosting Fangoria's Blood and Guts, a YouTube series on The Nerdist Channel in which he meets with masters ... More >>

From Vampires to V-Day: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Friday, Feb. 8 Barbra Streisand's award-winning directorial debut, Yentl, returns to the big screen at the Egyptian Theatre at 7:30 p.m. The musical that originated "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "The Way He Makes Me Feel" by composer Michel Legrand and lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman follows one ... More >>

Horror Movies to See in October That You Probably Haven't Heard Of

Lord of the Rings Fans Celebrate The Hobbit's 75th Anniversary at TheOneRing.net's Annual Picnic

"We were the number one place to be in Hollywood on Oscar night!" Josh Rubinstein gushes, reminiscing about the three celeb-laden Academy Awards parties he helped plan as one of the L.A. events supervisors for Lord of the Rings superfan site TheOneRing.net (TORn). Elijah Wood, Peter Jackson and most ... More >>

Bertolli Sponsors Emmy Swag Suite for Celebs

It used to be easy to shower celebrities with lavish gifts. Back in the good old days, companies put together gift baskets worth tens of thousands of dollars that they gave to presenters and other celebrities attending awards shows such as the Oscars and Emmys. Then those spoilsport Feds decided t ... More >>

Leni Riefensthal's Olympia

Top 12 LGBT Movies You Need To See, as Picked by Film Fest Organizers

Outfest, L.A.'s gay and lesbian film festival, ended on Sunday, reminding us that films about the LGBT experience serve an important role in the community, from teaching teenage boys and girls that it's alright to kiss other boys and girls, respectively, to connecting social activists with images su ... More >>

Whit Stillman Interview

Damsels in Distress, and a director in distress

L.A. Marathon Could Get Soaked by Heavy Winter Storm Expected This Weekend

Updated at the bottom with tips for running in the rain. First posted at 3:37 p.m. Tuesday You thought winter was over early, but March's stormy lion will finally visit us this weekend with a strong storm that might hit during the annual L.A. Marathon Sunday. The National Weather Service today iss ... More >>

Pakistan Celebrates First Oscar Winner, Saving Face, and Confronts the Acid Attacks That Have Terrorized its Women

"Where are the stars?"Riffat Masood, the consul general of the Pakistani Consulate in Los Angeles, has hushed the crowd gathered in the living room of her palatial home in Beverly Hills. Now she just needs to find the guests of honor. "Where is the director? Where is the famous doctor?"As the tw ... More >>

Academy Awards See Arrests For Purse Snatching, False Credentials, Trespassing

​The Academy Awards is an economic engine, and crime appears to be one of the small side industries it fuels. The LAPD tells the Weekly seven people were arrested on the red carpet at last night's awards in Hollywood, including the infamous collar of actress Sean Young, who allegedly got into ... More >>

Brett Ratner Pulls Out of Academy Awards After Uttering Anti-Gay Slur

Brett Ratner.​Updated at the bottom: Eddie Murphy's out too. First posted at 4:28 p.m. Tuesday. Brett Ratner is Hollywood's douche laureate, tolerated for his frat-boy ways because he makes hit moves. Well, no longer, it seems. The big-budget producer told a reporter during a Q&A promoting ... More >>

Gil Cates dies at 77

Craig SchwartzA Noise Within cuts open a new path in Pasadena​GIL CATES DIES: The Geffen Playhouse's artistic director, and Academy Awards producer, was found in a UCLA parking lot Monday night, having died of natural causes. More on this story to come. A Noise Within opened it's new Pasadena digs ... More >>

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Soliciting Donations to Pay For Ethics Violations Fines Related to Ticketgate

Villaraigosa and his children at the Oscars.​We likened the $42,000 in fines Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will have to pay for accepting valuable sports and entertainment tickets from folks who do business with City Hall to a light slap on the wrist. Well, it looks like the mayor will don kid g ... More >>

Water for Elephants

Incendies

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/7-2/11

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The fetish object of the week? My money's on the uni goma tofu at the new Aburiya Toranoko in Little Tokyo, which is to say a smallish cube of firm, blackish tofu made from ground, toasted sesame ... More >>

(Video) 'Toy Story 3' Anti-Oscar Campaign Waged By Disney Resort Workers

DisneyCowboys are an invention of Latin America. Irony?​Update: Our friends over at OC Weekly have photos of Monday night's protest here. First posted at 7:05 a.m.. Disney's Toy Story 3 ended up on some critics' year-end Top 10 lists, but now a labor union wants to put it back in the toy ches ... More >>

DEAD MEN IN TIGHTS

Mayor Asks Ethics Commission To Review Free Tickets

​Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has voluntarily asked for a review by the city Ethics Commission and the City Attorney's office that would determine whether or not he has violated any rules for accepting concert and sporting tickets given to him over the past five years. Under city ethics rules ... More >>

Craigslist TV Series On YouTube Has Gone Live

​That online Craigslist-based reality show we told you about recently went live on YouTube. The 14-episode first season follows the lives of five Angelenos who used the bulletin-board site to find fashion models, soul mates and more. The star so far seems to be Michael Mullen, a 28-year-old f ... More >>

Canned Ham

JON HAMM DIGS MEN IN DRAG

Phoenix captures LA sound for new Sofia Coppola movie

​International hipster supercouple Sofia Coppola (daughter of Francis Ford, ex-wife of Spike Jonze, Oscar winner for Lost in Translation) and Thomas Mars (lead singer of Phoenix, ie that French band you sort of care about who are not Daft Punk or Air) are in the process of making both a baby a ... More >>

Nightranger: Boogie Wonderland

Movie Reviews: Zombie Girl, The Yellow Handkerchief, Defendor

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Dinner & A Movie: Learn to Cook While You Watch 'Like Water For Chocolate'

Combining food and film is something we're particularly good at in this town (just ask Wolfgang Puck). Tomorrow night, February 19th, art historian and chef Maite Gomez-Rejón combines a class on Mexican cuisine with clips from the film Like Water for Chocolate. Learn how to make chiles en Nogada, c ... More >>

Movie Theater Bites the Dust

BlogDowntown's Ed Fuentes confirms that the Laemmle Grande 4-Plex will close October 25, mostly due to the expected competition from a new Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 located near Staples Center. The Laemmle Grande was a diamond in the rough for local filmgoers because its bills, while favoring multipl ... More >>

HOORAY FOR HOLY LAND!

Heads and Heart

Edie Sings! Sheryl Crows!

What to do in L.A., March 7-13

Oscar Shoe Ins/Outs

Missed the Red Carpet pre-Oscars coverage this year (think we may have still been in bed when E! started airing its tedious fawning sessions with Ryan Seacrest) so we actually had to watch the show itself for a fashion fix. There sure was lots of eye candy. Maybe it was just our new hi-def TV, but ... More >>

Hooked in the USA

HBO's The Addiction Project

In Need of a Good Thanking

Jennifer Hudson snubs American Idol and The Departed's screenwriter forgets to thank the original writers of his story

Everybody in The Fishtank!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Recent Spanish Cinema 2006

The Accidental Publicist

Mickey Cottrell

Oscar Documentary Shorts

Ask Mr. Gold: Hishi-mochi

Oscar Morning Howlers

Big Oscar Cover-up!

Less controversy, more fabric

Hollywood OVERHEARD

Hollywood OVERHEARD

Thugs on Film

Suspect Entertainment helps Hollywood keep it real

Pine-Box Office Hits

Museum Piece

The enduring virtues of Jennifer Connelly

From DIY to Disney

Why Do You Think They Call ’Em Hams?

Self-Partnering

The many faces of Daniel Ezralow