Christopher Guest

Jason Reitman Directed an All-Female Glengarry Glen Ross Reading at LACMA Last Night

When former New York Times (and ex-LA Weekly) movie critic Elvis Mitchell took over LACMA's film curatorship two years ago -- with Film Independent, which runs the L.A. Film Festival and the Spirit Awards -- he announced his intention to raise the profile of LACMA's Bing Theater and fill it with tha ... More >>

Kevin Pollak on His New Autobiography and How He Convinced Steve Martin to Tweet

Revered standup and actor Kevin Pollak's new autobiography, How I Slept My Way to the Middle: Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs , fulfills precisely what its subtitle promises, chronicling his rise as an formidable impressionist and standout player in The Usual Suspects, A Few Go ... More >>

Bernie Review

Jack Black, somehow, some way, stars in the smartest American movie in ages

'Weird Al' Yankovic Chats About Justin Bieber, Lynwood and Career Longevity, at Gallery 1988

The line stretched out the door and onto the balmy L.A. streets on Friday at Gallery 1988: Melrose, one of the two spaces set up by Jensen Karp to showcase pop culture-inspired art. Fans waited patiently for a chance to look at and buy work from "Is This Thing On? 2, The Weird Year," with with artis ... More >>

Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List

​See also: *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the line 'love in stereo' came into my head. Inspiration can happen anywhere at any time. -Jani Lane, Hit Parader magazine History has not been ... More >>

The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11

​See also: The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 ​15. Spinal Tap This Is Spinal Tap soundtrack (1984) Rob Reiner's brilliant mock-rockumentary sends up longstanding hard-rock obsessions like Druids and getting super-heavy. (Aspiring local hair-metal god Paul Shortino of Roug ... More >>

Hollywood's 10 Most Memorable Coffee Quotes

In honor of National Coffee Day, we've compiled a list of Hollywood's 10 Most Memorable Coffee Quotations. Why memorable movie quotations, and not, say, quotations from your favorite novels? Because we live in L.A. Duh. Turn the page.

Further Proof That an L.A. Weekly Theater Award Can Lead to a Successful Career

L.A. Film Fest Opens With Richard Linklater's Bernie: Like Christopher Guest Doing Errol Morris Doing Fargo

Jack Black: walking gay caricature?​ Ah, LAFF opening night. More or less settled in to its LA Live homebase in its second year there (I mean, I was able to pick up my pass, get into the screening and transition to the afterparty completely painlessly, which is some kind of victory), our city' ... More >>

Spinal Tap Fans Start Movement to Make 11/11/11 "Nigel Tufnel Day" Worldwide

Eleven​ If you're even remotely familiar with the film This is Spinal Tap, then surely you're conversant about this little legendary piece of dialogue: Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most am ... More >>

Lord of the Dance 3D

PRAISE BLUTO

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL! CHELSEA PERETTI

THE STRAIGHT MAN COMETH

Coffee-Making: a Frothy Contest

Movie Reviews: Chloe, Hot Tub Time Machine, Waking Sleeping Beauty

Also Sweetgrass, West of Pluto, Vincere and more

A Survivor's Guide to Food Festivals: Hydrate, Recycle, Pace Yourself & Don't Stalk The Chefs

Between the Gold Standard, Taste of the Nation L.A., and the Grilled Cheese Invitational, Los Angeles has hosted enough themed foodie conventions to provoke Christopher Guest's next mockumentary. Next weekend, the first annual Korean BBQ Festival and Cook-Off kicks off in K-Town, and on August 20th, ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Dance Flick, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Easy Virtue

Also, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story, Fados and more

THOSE FAKE ROCK GUYS ARE REAL NOW, BUT NOT "REAL NOW"

Rock Picks: Winifred E. Eye, Stagecoach, Marianne Dissard, Thao

Also, Franz Nicolay, Sweet, Tinted Windows and others

Spinal Tap: Unwigged and Unplugged at its House of Blues Press Conference

Shannon Cottrell Spinal Tarp, er, Tap, are the Cher of semi-fictional rock bands. Or in the semi-fictional words of bassist Derek Smalls himself: "If you let the worm grow long enough, it's going to turn. That's what's happened to us." Spinal Tap formed the '60s, dwindled in the '80s, reunited in 19 ... More >>

Tropic Thunder: Jungle Feverish

If only Ben Stiller and company were as hot and naughty as the P.C. protesters complain

Movie Reviews: Bra Boys, Super High Me, Alexandra

Also, Young @ Heart, Remember the Daze and more

Record Reviews: The Mars Volta, Radar Brothers

Also: Vampire Weekend, Crystal Antlers

Rock Picks: Los Lobos, No Age, Los Abandoned, Slayer

For the week of August 23-30

Will You Marionette Me

What to do in Los Angeles this week

LAFF 2007, From A to Y

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

VC Filmfest 2007

Michelle Biloon: Dives, Darts and Hecklers

A few laughs with a standup soldier

Film Reviews: The Reaping, Are We Done Yet? and More

Alsoo reviews of Firehouse Dog, Sacco and Vanzetti and Operation Homecoming

Leslie's Gore

Unmasking Nathan Baesel

Hardened Arteries and Empty Calories

Fast Food Nation and For Your Consideration pillory American excess

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Borat

Film Reviews

Mr. Burns in Scotland

Once Is Enough

The story of the greatest soccer team you’ve never heard of

I'm With Cupid

Spinal Fusion

Ford bastardizes Spinal Tap and MySpace.com to sell cars; public is uncertain

After the Lights Go Down

What's up at AFI Fest 2004

Straight Shooters

Guerrilla filmmakers PSTOLA declare war on jigabooism

Writer’s Block

Edited by Kateri Butler

Not So Blaine

Give Us Liberty or At Least Give Us Dinner

Edited by Kateri Butler

Folk Explosion

Jimmy Kay puts redemption songs back in the radio spotlight

Marathon Men

A TV documentary about the theater and torn friendships

Random Acts of Satire

Harry Shearer’s search for truth

Balls of the Belle