Anthony Hopkins

Red 2 Isn't Great, but Helen Mirren? Fabulous

Everything You Need to Know About Hitchcock Month in Los Angeles

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage It's tempting to think we're in the midst of an Alfred Hitchcock resurgence. Last year, for the first time in half a century, a worldwide poll in Sight & Sound magazine chose Vertigo (1958) over Citizen Kane (1941) as the greatest film of all time; two bio ... More >>

Q & A With Lesley Nicol of Downton Abbey: Salty Raspberry Meringue, Adventures in Pretend Cooking How Mrs. Patmore is Like Gordon Ramsay

Downton Abbey starts its third season on Jan. 6 on Masterpiece Classic at 9 p.m. -- that would be tomorrow. Fans of the soapy period drama might be imagining the glorious nuptials of the long-suffering Matthew Crawley and the spoiled Lady Mary, or laying bets on whether or not Lord and Lady Grantham ... More >>

Hitchcock Review: Shouldn't the Making of Psycho Be More Interesting?

Nightmares on Wax: Top Ten Creepy Musician Wax Figures (which You Can Buy for Your Home)

Nightmares on Wax: 11 Creepy Musician Wax Figures

The Rite

Movie Review: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Movie Reviews: The City of Your Final Destination, Oceans, Five Easy Pieces

Also, Paper Man, Handmade Nation, Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D and more

Star-studded Method Film Fest's Hits and Misses

​ Celebrating its twelfth anniversary this year, Method Fest - whose raison d'etre is to showcase films driven by performances and strong stories, not special effects or global market potential - has slowly evolved into a very big deal. This year's films star such respected names as Anthony H ... More >>

MASTER OF PUPPETS

Whatever Works for Woody

Allen on life, actors, younger women and his 40th film

Beastly: The Elephant Man Rises From the Dead

Movie Reviews: Big Man Japan, Management, Not Forgetten

Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

Movie Reviews: Battle for Terra, Il Divo, X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Also, Empty Nest, Newcastle and more

For Your Reconsideration: Frost/Nixon’s Michael Sheen

Welsh actor’s turns as real-life British legends run the gamut

Film Reviews: Rails & Ties, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains

Why Torture Porn Isn't

Notes on the contemporary horror movie

A Great and Terrible Civility

Howards End

Fabulously Phony

System at the Knitting Factory, James St. James' Freak Show and more

Francophilia

Have no fear, the French will save cinema

Ryan Gosling Fires Up Fracture

Across an Alternate Universe

A Beatles cover-music movie needs straitjackets for all involved

Film Reviews: Bridge to Terabithia, Daddy’s Little Girls and more

Film Reviews: Norbit, Hannibal Rising

Including Norbit, Hannibal Rising,Traffic Signal, and the Ralph Nader documentary, An Unreasonable Man

Love and Salvation

Longford looks back on a British lord and the murderess who captured his heart

Unfit for King's

Zaillian and Penn can’t put Penn Warren’s political parable back together again

New Film Reviews

For the week of February 3 -10, 2006

Here and There and Back Again

With The World’s Fastest Indian, Roger Donaldson comes full circle

Chicanos and the Man

Comedian Paul Rodriguez and his skateboarding son, Paulie, are rich and famous. But where would they be without Pablo?

Radio Provocateur

Phil Hendrie conquers the AM dial one deluded caller at a time. So why can't he get his mug on TV?

Lost in Translation

Bleeding The Human Stain of nuance

Male Malfeasance

Eros Bound

Secrets and lies in Merchant-Ivory’s The Golden Bowl

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

The American Nightmare and Hannibal

Letters

The End Is Near!

The last movies of the century

Perhaps These Are Not Poetic Times At All

Poetry and Los Angeles at the Millennium

Double or Nothing

Delicate dread from the Polish brothers

Exterminated Angel

Meet Joe Black (if you must)