Brad Pitt

World War Z Gets the Action Right But Botches the Bigger Ideas

In the end, however, all that matters is Brad Pitt

L.A. Film Fest Continues: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *L.A. Film Fest: The Best Movies to See Friday, June 21 On Friday at the Grand Park's Performance Lawn downtown, in honor of the original 1988 Hairspray's 25th anniversary, the L.A. Film Fest and Dance Camera West want you to do the Mashed Potato with Trac ... More >>

The Drive-in Is Optional

Miraval Rosé 2012: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Wine Sells Out in 5 Hours

Do you love rosé wine? Do you love Brad Pitt? Do you love Angelina Jolie? Do you love ALL THREE of those things at the same time? Well, hopefully you were among the lucky people who bought one or more of the approximately 6,000 bottles of Miraval Rosé 2012 that went on sale this morning -- and sol ... More >>

Burned

Killing Them Softly Review: Violent Brad Pitt Drama Argues Crime Is Just Business

Byung-Hun Lee Is a Big Deal in South Korea. But Not in the U.S. Yet.

I was told I was going to meet the Korean Brad Pitt. With that in mind, I walk into the Los Angeles office of CJ Entertainment, the largest entertainment company in South Korea, where I am introduced to Byung-Hun Lee. He currently stars in The Prince and the Pauper-type period piece, Masquerade, w ... More >>

Oksana Marafioti

Prop. 8 Sent to U.S. Supreme Court by 'Protect Marriage' Camp

They're like potato bugs who refuse to die. After four yeas of rejection, ProtectMarriage.com and four other individuals in the pro-Prop. 8 camp have taken California's gay-marriage fight to the highest court in the land: They submitted a nearly 500-page petition to the U.S. Supreme Court this mor ... More >>

Cannes Film Festival: Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly and Gael Garcia Bernal in No

The opening credits of the Brad Pitt-starring Killing Them Softly are set to snatches of Barack Obama's 2008 Democratic Convention speech, focused on the notion of "the American promise," jarringly jump-intercut with scenes of Frank (Scoot McNairy) making his way through a tunnel onto a dismal Ameri ... More >>

Dustin Lance Black's Play 8, Starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt

Clooney, Pitt, Kevin Bacon and Martin Sheen power a fundraiser reading

Brad Pitt to Star as Gay Prop. 8 Judge in Livestreamed YouTube Reenactment of Trial

Is Brad Pitt feeling a little guilty about saying he might have to break his big promise not to marry Angelina Jolie until his homosexual brethren can do the same? The American Foundation for Equal Rights, the plaintiff in California's never-ending court battle to overturn Proposition 8, is announc ... More >>

Brad Pitt Upsets Gay Nation, Says Pledge Not to Marry Until Same Sex Couples Can Might Be Off

Mad props to Brad Pitt for creating the best excuse ever not to marry a baby-mom: He said he wouldn't tie the knot with Angelina Jolie until same-sex couples could wed too. High five. (We kid). Except that it would appear Mr. Pitt is wussing out. The gay nation is up-in-arms:

2011 Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Critics' Poll

Parsing the data

Happy Feet Two Review

Five Cheesiest Moments in Baseball Movie History

SonyDespite the brilliance of Moneyball as a baseball movie -- a really cheesy moment exists in the film.​ Looking to rally moviegoers this weekend is the feature adaptation of Michael Lewis 2003 tome Moneyball, which dramatizes the resurrection of the 2002 underdogs, the Oakland A's, under th ... More >>

Moneyball Review

Toronto Film Festival: Moneyball and the Fetishizing of Spreadsheets

​ "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball," admits Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics played, in career-best form, by Brad Pitt in Bennett Millers' Moneyball.This line, from a screenplay by Stephen Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, happens in the home stretch of a film abo ... More >>

Toronto Film Festival Preview: 10 Must-See Films

Brad Pitt in Moneyball​ The Toronto Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, offering the usual mix of Oscar bait, new films from foreign and experimental masters, and basically every conceivable thing in between. With the caveat that the lineup, hundreds of films strong, could not possibly be tackle ... More >>

The Tree of Life: Better Than a Masterpiece

Terrence Malick's big-budget experimental film

Cannes 2011: We the Jury

The Artist​ CANNES, FRANCE -- The fun is winding down and the sad thing is, there could have been even more. Cannes's programmers had carefully contrived a Palme d'Or celebrity death match between two wildly polarizing contenders with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life in the white trunks an ... More >>

Cannes Dispatch: Dysfunction Junction

Halfway through, and it's clear: Cannes 2011 has issues

Cannes 2011: Terrence Malick and Brad Pitt's The Tree of Life Gets Irate Boos Followed by Thin Applause

Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life​ CANNES, FRANCE -- Much improved since I last posted, the Cannes Film Festival celebrated its midpoint in train-wreck fashion, its wagon to hitched to The Tree of Life. The first screening of Terrence Malick's long-awaited new movie, three years in the editing, ... More >>

Top 10 Hollywood Couples You'd Like To See Do Sex Tapes

Mr. & Mrs. Smith​Now that the holidays are over and your warm-and-fuzzy feelings for family and friends have given way to a massive, week-long hangover, we've got just the tidbit to brighten your day. That's right, we've got porn news to kick off 2011 right. Steven Hirsch, honcho at the world ... More >>

MEGAMIND 3-D

FALL IN LOVE WITH BRAD PITT ALL OVER AGAIN

Hollywood's Labor Pains or, Why the Numbers Still Matter

​Although the official start of Fall is still a couple of weeks away, Hollywood's Autumnal Equinox is already upon us, as the books are closed on the 2009 summer movie season and the curtain goes up on the Toronto International Film Festival, the still-humid summer air starting to hum with the fir ... More >>

Quentin Tarantino Serves Up Hitler's Head in Inglourious Basterds

Mr. Blood Red, Vol. 2

MR. WILSON AND HIS PROFANE COPS

The Curious Case of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Old Man Pitt

A Bunch of Smart, Funny Women, and Taylor Negron

What to do in L.A., December 12-18

Brad Pitt -- Call Me!!!

Queer Town: Tracking the Money for Prop. 8

While Brad Pitt's $100,000 contribution to the "No on 8" campaign made big news last week, the larger money picture for the anti-gay ballot measure doesn't look so good for opponents of Proposition 8, and may be why gay and lesbian activists are still concerned about defeating the proposed gay marri ... More >>

Queer Town: Brad Pitt Challenges Hollywood on Prop. 8 Fight

This morning, Queer Town reported that wealthy folks in Los Angeles County weren't donating as much as they could to fight Proposition 8. Karen Ocamb, news editor of In and Frontiers magazines, also wrote a top notch story about A-list gays missing from action. But now actor Brad Pitt may have chan ... More >>

Burn After Reading: Intolerable Cruelty

Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery

Downtown L.A. Film Fest: The Good, The Bad, and The Booze

This past Sunday marked the finale of the first Downtown LA Film Festival, closing five days of spectacular centerpieces, freely flowing booze, and the occasional glitch. As a coherent festival to be enjoyed as one large mega-event, it was hampered by the distances between venues (too far too walk, ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Jen and Angie, I'm Just Wild About Harry

Also, Money & Run, Boise U.S.A. and more

Anatomy of a Murder

The famous outlaw, the fawning outcast and an epic movie that’s as stylized as it is insane

Grey the Transformer

Paramount Pictures’ chief now obeys his DreamWorks masters

Babel: Speaking in Tongues

A foreign film for people who don’t see foreign films

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, Static and Highways Birthday Bash

Putting the Grand in Guignol

WASP, LIZZY BORDEN, INTENTIONAL RAGE, FIFI LARUE at the Key Club, June 4

Dead End Kids, Celebrity Air and Scandinavians — Especially Norwegians

The Crash of Civilizations

12 highlights from 365 days

Nice ’n’ Easy

Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven

Mob Rule

Gandolfini upstages Pitt in The Mexican

Preppie Living Wage

American Movie Classic

Pulp Fiction

David Fincher's Fight Club

Exterminated Angel

Meet Joe Black (if you must)