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Sundance 2013: Sex with James Franco, Sultry Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Radcliffe's Jew-Fro, and a Great Film From Jordan

In his brief remarks before the first public screening of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford praised the Sundance Institute's ongoing filmmaker development labs as "our core," noting that the festival itself was conceived "to create an audience for the filmmakers in our lab program."

Promised Land Review: Gus Van Sant Directs a Screenplay by Matt Damon and John Krasinski

The Best Musicians in L.A., 2012

Our Best Of issue just hit stands! We found our fairy tale, and now we present it to you: 435 of the most fabulous things in all of Los Angeles. From the city's most amazing restaurants to its tawdriest dive bars, from its edgiest art exhibits to the top spots for live music, we've got it all covere ... More >>

Suri's Burn Book: The Ultimate Dig at Our Celeb-Obsessed Culture, Now in Book Form

In our celeb-obsessed culture, it seems everything is fair game. We gather around blogs that pick apart stars' outfits and possible romantic entanglements and other scandals. So are celebrity children fair game? Blogger Allie Hagan attempts to make light of that idea. However, being a 25-year-old p ... More >>

7 Bizarro Life Lessons from Kevin Smith's New Book Tough Sh*t

Southwest Airlines may agree with the "fat" part of Kevin Smith's new book Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good from Gotham Books, but Silent Bob is far from lazy. He's an author, comic book store owner, professional stage farceur and podcaster who runs a network of podcasts fo ... More >>

Music Picks: Skrillex, Diplo, Wu-Tang Clan, The Health Club

Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others

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 >>

9 Circles, blu, Pulp Shakespeare and more new theater reviews . . .

Fresh Frame FotoLOLPERA​LOLPERA at Long Beach's Garage Theater is this week's Pick of the Week, with recommendations for a number of Southland performances, including Pulp Shakespeare at the Asylum Theatre, ​ Henry Murray's Monkey Adored, presented by Rogue Machine, Virginia Grise's lyrical new ... More >>

Mayer Hawthorne Is Back: Just Don't Call Him Retro

Todd Cooper​Despite the doo-wop sound of his ditties, his silky old-soul croon, and the fact that he hails from the state that birthed Motown, Mayer Hawthorne swears he's not retro. The voice of Hawthorne may be golden, but it's untrained. In fact, the man born Andrew Cohen in Ann Arbor ... More >>

Charlie Sheen's Comedy Central Roast: The Fort Knox of Comedy Gold

Charlie Sheen at his roast​If you didn't know better, you'd think that Charlie Sheen spent all this time sabotaging the highest-paying gig in TV just so he'd wind up the guest of dishonor at his own roast, specifically, the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, airing Sept. 19. For the show' ... 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 >>

'Fame is Love': Mark Kostabi Premieres Con Artist, Waxes About Italian Living and Infamy

Having pushed a bevy of buttons back in the late '80s, earning himself fame, fortune and fans, all of which came at a price, the self-proclaimed 'World's Biggest Con Artist' is back and coming to a theater near you, whether you like it or not. Directed by Michael Sladek, Con Artist reveals an intima ... More >>

"The airlines use interior designers to make their jets more pleasant" & 9 other things Popeye never should have said

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Popeye and Consumer and Homemaking Careers Author: Joe Gill, writer; Frank Roberge, art Date: 1973 Publisher: ... More >>

The Last of The Hills

Remembering what Spencer said to Brody about Lauren, and all that crazy drama

Kevin Smith's Twitter Campaign Against Critics

​After almost exactly a month in theaters, Kevin Smith's Cop Out has made $42.7 million at the box office, making it the highest grossing film directed by the sometime-indie icon, by a substantial margin. Meanwhile, the Bruce Willis/Tracy Morgan cop-com was a total strikeout with critics, nett ... More >>

Guantánamo’s Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms

Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Foundas on Film: Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Max Payne, Sex Drive, What Just Happened?

Also, Morning Light, Secrecy and more

Best Lost Art Found: Aardvark Letterpress

Space Race Two: SoCal Loses Fight for Private Space Terminal to New Mexico

State turns instead to manufacturing ships, suits, even diapers

Bons Away! City of Lights, City of Angels

French-film festival delivers the goods

Tia Maria Torres

Underdogs

Film Reviews: Chalk, The Ex, 28 Weeks Later and Delta Farce

The Blockbusters Cometh

It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless...

Across an Alternate Universe

A Beatles cover-music movie needs straitjackets for all involved

Solitary Men: Reign Over Me and The Shooter

Sandler and Wahlberg go their own ways

Hardened Arteries and Empty Calories

Fast Food Nation and For Your Consideration pillory American excess

Rage Against...

Bruce Willis, Maxine Waters and Living Wagers, plus a new religion for Teddy “The Gay Hypocrite” Haggard

Mort Sahl Saves the World

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Film Reviews

For the week of April 7-13

Save the Lap Dance

Jumbo's best stripper retires

Reclaiming the “N Word”

P.C. police bar a discussion on race

Crying Time

The Saddest Music in the World’s surreally funny sob story

The Face in the Toilet Bowl

Why Arnold could flush the feminists

Behind Enemy Lines

Joe Scarborough goes to the trenches of Hollywood

When Big Gets Bigger

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

Crap Circles

Today, on a Vicious Blue Planet

Katie Couric, Britney Spears, Lou Reed and Alastair Fothergill. Alastair Fothergill?

Wasteland

Sperm in a cup; plus Nic Cage

Almost Infamous

There and back with Punkin Pie

Star-Spangled John

Making Out

Marc Shaiman’s brilliantly schizoid career

Beauty and the Beast

French cinema battles Hollywood’s global movie offensive

Imperfect Pitch

Online screenplay ideas underwhelm Sundance

As Tears Go By

Maternal waterworks

Love, Death and Déjà vu

Cupid, Brimstone and Seven Days

Whatever

The new nihilism

Study for a Portrait of a Studio Memo