Bridesmaids (Movie)

Spoken Reasons, the YouTube Poet, Jumps to Hollywood in The Heat

There are plenty of YouTube "stars" on the Internet -- written with quotation marks because they rarely are recognized by age groups outside their target audience of teenagers. But this past week, Spoken Reasons, born John A. Baker Jr., went beyond his subscribers' computer screens and onto the silv ... More >>

The Heat Would Be More Likable If It Stopped Yelling Everything

21 & Over Just Dares You to Get Offended

Slideshow: The 20 Most Tolerable Party Movies

The Evolution of Melissa McCarthy

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 To watch Melissa McCarthy as lovable chef Sookie St. James on seven seasons of the Gilmore Girls was to see an actress perfect the art of playing a sidekick. As best friend of the show's protagonist, Lorelai Gilmore (Laur ... More >>

10 Movies We're Excited to See in 2013

See also: *Top 10 Films of 2012 *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Most of the blathering this year about the death of the movies has already evaporated from the mind, like so much inert gas. But one gnomic pronouncement endures: Leos Carax describing cinema as "a beautiful island with a cemetery" fol ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, July 30 Big K.R.I.T. EL REY THEATRE The South rises again in the form of Big K.R.I.T. ("king remember in time"), a marvelously dexterous rapper-producer from Mississippi who insists that it's "Cool 2 Be Southern" on his debut full-length CD, Live From the Underground. He has produced key tr ... More >>

Music Picks: Kaskade, Dirty Projectors, Ondatrópica

Dirty Minds Think Alike

Friends With Kids Review

Maya Rudolph, Bridesmaids Star, Tells Conan That Her Friend's Dog Olly Found Severed Head Near Hollywood Sign

The grim tale of the severed human head that turned up near the Hollywood sign was already a full-length, stranger-than-fiction L.A. horror flick. Dog finds head; severed feet and hands show up nearby; skeezy paparazzi try to sell alleged pics of head for $5,000. But last night on Conan, of-the-mom ... More >>

10 Movies We're Excited About in 2012

Sacha Baron Cohen is The Dictator​We know -- you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot of other movies whose marketing campaigns have not inundated us with white noise (yet). Allow us to suggest a few more films to ... More >>

10 People Who Mattered in Movies this Year

​By Ernest Hardy, Karina Longworth and Mark Olsen Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

LACMA Goes Hollywood With Elvis Mitchell

Museum scrapped its film program for a star-studded partnership aimed at courting showbiz bucks — helmed by the nation's most controversial critic

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Marc Maron on KCRW: LA Weekly's Ultimate Guide to the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts

Doug SadlerHost Howard Kremer, guest Zach Galifianakis and co-host Kulap Vilaysack fart up, err chart up the room on the podcast Who Charted?​ As the Buggles once forecasted in their 1980s pop single: "Video Killed the Radio Star." Today, it's more accurate to say that the podcast resurrecte ... More >>

Bad Teacher Review: You Want Raunchy Comedy Starring Women? Be Careful What You Wish For

​ From Tad Friend's New Yorker profile of Anna Faris (which Jezebel.com reblogged under the headline "Hollywood Insiders Admit Hollywood Hates Women") to the glass-ceiling-shattering pressure assigned to last month's Bridesmaids (which has thus far outgrossed every previous Judd Apatow project ... More >>

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