Bruce Willis

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

(No) Fear of a Shane Black Planet: The Iron Man 3 Auteur's Career, Reconsidered

G.I. Joe: Retaliation's a Battle of Dumb Pleasures Versus Your Higher Brain Function

When John McClane Lost His Family, the Die Hard Movies Lost Much of John McClane

Conjoined III: Chet Zar's Annual Art Show Includes Busts of Abraham Lincoln and Raoul Duke

See also: *Beavis & Butthead in Real Life, the Viral Hit Sculpture, in 'Conjoined II' Show *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Abraham Lincoln's head glowed through the gallery window. Even from a distance, the bust is impressive. Large and swathed in light, the piece seemed to beckon, "Just w ... More >>

Lay the Favorite Review: Rebecca Hall Almost Saves Stephen Frears' Sports-Betting Film

Looper Review: Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Make Time Travel Fun Again

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 >>

Hollywood Action Movies Suck These Days (But They Don't Have To)

By Vern Remember how action movies used to be? The good old-fashioned American (but often European-accented) ones from the '80s and '90s, the type paid tribute to (but not necessarily re-created) in the Expendables movies? No offense to your Iron Men and your Jason Bournes, but I miss movies like D ... More >>

Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] See also: *Our review of Aerosmith at Hollywood Bowl, 8/6/12 *Aerosmith's Steven Tyler: "When I Took 'Idol,' There Was a Lot of Jealousy" Song: Aerosmith's "I D ... More >>

Young Love, Wes Anderson-style, in Moonrise Kingdom

Cannes Film Festival: Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom Starring Edward Norton, Bruce Willis and Bill Murray

It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky, isle-strewn coast of New England. Sam (Jared Gelman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp supervised by Scout Master Randy Ward (Edward Norton), absconding with a couple of bed ... More >>

PHOTOS: Armored Vehicle Dangles off 5 South Overpass, Spills Gas Onto Freeway Below

Wondering why you're stuck in a traffic jam from hell during what should be a breezy Good Friday rush hour? The hold-up has everything to do with a mysterious armored vehicle (Bruce Willis, are you in there??) dangling off the 5 South overpass in Boyle Heights, glaring down menacingly at the 10 Wes ... More >>

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Bela Tarr and Bollywood

Pulp Shakespeare

Pulp Shakespeare

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A bomb, a zombie and beer

UCLA Scientists: Oops, We Cured Baldness

Tyra will finally be beautiful again​Baldness: That cursed genetic trait, forever cock-blocking older men from cheating on their wives (with the exception of Bruce Willis), squelching their confidence to ask for a better cubicle and overall giving them the vague look of a gigantic human condom ... More >>

Red: Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever

Helen Mirren will cut you, and other awesome old-people things

THAT TRACY MORGAN -- HE'LL SAY ANTHING!

GOOD KING WILLISLAS

Movie Reviews: The Invention of Lying, Whip It, Zombieland, Paranormal Activity

Plus, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, In Search of Beethoven and more

Movie Reviews: Fame, Pandorum, Surrogates

Also, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, The Most Dangerous Man in America and more

Nick Cassavetes: Yes, I Have No Notes on Jesse James Hollywood

Actor and film/stage director Nick Cassavetes has told a Superior Court judge in Santa Barbara that he cannot turn over interview notes for his 2006 movie, Alpha Dog,  to a prosecutor. According to the Associated Press, the director claimed he no longer has them. Alpha Dog, starring Bruce Will ... More >>

The Bank Job: Fast and Loose

True or false? This "true story" is too much fun to fact-check

Makin' It Work

Style Wars, Divine Design and Kitchen 24

Die Hardest

Bruce is back — bad guys beware

Film Reviews: Disturbia, Perfect Stranger and More

Also Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Thetaers, The Ritchie Boys and this week's pick, Red Road

Nightranger

Devil’s Haircut and B-Boys

Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007

Will the public get off? Or is it just studio masturbation?

The Meat of the Matter

Richard Linklater maps out his Fast Food Nation

Over the Hedge and Under the Radar

Mapping today’s kiddie-movie landscape

Sleight of Hand, Slight of Mind

Take the Long Way Home

16 Blocks delivers a more lethal Donner

The Distributor Who Wasn't There

Local filmmaker Brian Flemming would rather do it himself

Pulp Diction

Sin City gets high on style and juvenile hijinks

Back to Basics

Hard-boiled Hostage is bracing pulp fiction.

Slushed in 2003

Twisted Roots

Little Otik’s comedy of terrors; plus, Hart’s War

Can the Lion Roar?

Sweet Suffering Superheroes!

Unbreakable sags; George Washington shines

Cooler Than Cool

A guide to the low-alcohol refresher

Willis Docu Dies Hard

Willis' Boys Strike Back

Letters

Letters

Hailey's Comet

How Bruce Willis Romanced and then Jilted a Small Idaho Town

Going to Hell for Fun and Profit

A primer

Falling Rock

Michael Bay, terminator