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Barbers, Sharks and Treasure

The Last DJ: The Legendary Jim Ladd Gets The Ax

​They fired Jim Ladd on a Tuesday. Ladd had been the nighttime DJ on L.A. classic rock station KLOS, in various incarnations, since 1969. He's a rare DJ with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and inspired Tom Petty's song "The Last DJ." Cumulus Media, having absorbed bankrupt former KLOS ow ... More >>

Bob Gray and the New Cellphone That Made Him a Celebrity. Sort Of.

Impostor Bob with girlfriend Liza, top left, and Andy Dick, bottom left​ There are people who kinda love their cellphone service, and then there is Bob Gray. A refreshingly friendly and stoutly built Cleveland native, bursting with the unfiltered enthusiasm and tendency for "straight talk" ass ... More >>

Armageddon 2: Carmageddon, the Unproduced Screenplay About the 405 Closure

​ The 1998 movie Armageddon starred Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck as deep-sea oil drillers deployed by NASA and the military to embed a nuclear device 800 feet inside an asteroid heading straight for Earth. The device would split the asteroid into two parts, with both halves just narrowly missi ... More >>

Speak Softly, Drive a German Tank: Lemmy Kilmister at His Documentary Film Opening

Lemmy

FASTER

Lynda Kay Parker: Country & Western the Hard Way

Movie Reviews: Earth, The Garden, Obsessed

Also, The Informers, The Mutant Chronicles and more

Movie Reviews: Delhi-6, Fired Up, Madea Goes to Jail

Also, Chain Link, Moscow, Belgium and more

Fall Film: Quantum of Solace

James Bond, neither shaken nor stirred

Movie Reviews: Choke, August Evening, Eagle Eye, Nights in Rodanthe

Also, Freebird, The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela and more

Akasha, More Than Sustainable

Green eggs and hemp

Here Is What Is: Daniel Lanois Addresses the Present

The producer responsible for some of the most important records of the past two decades documents a year in his life

Rock Picks: Circle Jerks, Money Mark, No Age

For the week of Jan. 3 - 10

Film Reviews: King of California, Mr. Woodcock, Shadow Company

Also I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, Ira & Abby, December Boys and more

Dream Dames

And straight mates

Film Reviews

Including Jesus Camp and American Hardcore

Top Dogs/ Underdogs

Tales of Pennsylvania Avenue and Poverty Row

The Knightly News

George Clooney tips his hat to Edward R. Murrow

Hollywood Country

Don’t look for the soul of country music in glitzy Nashville — or even Bakersfield. It’s right here on the grand ole streets of L.A.

Get Me to the Church on Time and a Half for Overtime

The state of marriage, gay and straight, in a heterosexual dictatorship

Intolerable?

More cruelty for Coenheads

The Hickenlooper Tapes: When George Met Rodney

When Big Gets Bigger

X2 is everything it’s cracked up to be — and less!

Beatrice and Hubert

And how they begat Hollywood’s most exclusive awards ceremony

The Good Enough Thriller

Carl Franklin does what he can with High Crimes

And the Oscar Goes To . . .

The dogs. Sort of

Boozers and Schmoozers

Big Bad Love good, Jaglom better than usual

Worlds of Wonder

The Lord of the Rings and Monster's Ball; plus, The Majestic

Deliverance

Director Marc Forster breaks out

The End of Propaganda

From ad fab to d.o.a.

Final Cut

Barbershop noir from the Coens

Wounds That Heal

Art and history at the 54th Cannes film festival

Movies! Movies! Movies!

All in the Work-Family

Tavernier's act of grace, Newell's comedy of manners

Sick and Mired

For mentally ill, any jail is hard time

Blood Brothers

Sam Raimi’s American dream

Falling Rock

Michael Bay, terminator

Erection Campaign

Mike Nichols colors the Clintons soft