Clint Eastwood

How to Spot Hollywood's Nonthreatening Black Man (NTBM)

Coachella Parties: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The lineup of events thrown in conjunction with Coachella is almost as extensive as event itself. Many folks come just to attend the pool parties, the dance parties and the swag giveaways thrown at local hotels and mansions by various brands and media outlets. See also: *A road map to the best f ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The American People Kicked Your Ass, Republicans

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am in Washington DC right now. The time before the winner of the presidency was announced wa ... More >>

Luci Romberg Is the Queen of Freerunning, an Extreme Sport That's Like Running But More Awesome

Luci Romberg is practicing corkscrews over a blue gymnastics mat on a sweltering day. Most of the other 16 members of Team Tempest are here at the gym, too, also rehearsing methods of launching themselves airborne: flipping off ledges, leaping between walls, vaulting off foam blocks. They're rar ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Being a Local, Temporarily

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] We are in beautiful Olympia, Wash. My shows in Hawaii and Alaska are behind me, and a few hour ... More >>

Which Fake Randy Travis Should You Follow?

By Chris Gray The passion of Randy Travis has been one of the saddest and most compelling musical dramas of the past year. One of Nashville's most beloved and seemingly mild-mannered singers (now a North Texan) has suddenly gone full-on Johnny Paycheck, brawling in church parking lots, popping out ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Living All Over Me

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am writing to you from sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. I am not on vacation. I have a show here. The ... More >>

Esperanza Spalding & Anita Baker - Hollywood Bowl - 8/22/12

Esperanza Spalding & Anita Baker Hollywood Bowl August 22, 2012 I came into last night's show expecting more from Esperanza Spalding and less from Anita Baker. The audience was clearly prepared for something else. Last night, in what amounted to a generational battle of stage-craft and radio-friend ... More >>

Music Picks: Hootenanny, The Moonbeams, Kamasi Washington

Also, Eleni Mandell, Endermen, The Lions

Peter Wallerstein: This Sea Lion Walks Into a Sandbar ...

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. An anxious crowd quickly encircled the sea lion. Lying prone on El Porto beach, it was foaming at the mouth, with red bulging eyes. "Do something," a fat man in a too-tight Lak ... More >>

Virtual Boy's Intergalactic Love Story

Henry Allen and Preston Walker of Virtual Boy are two modest guys, mild-mannered to the point of shyness. They are prompt and polite; their hair isn't shaved ridiculously. Their music isn't the product of drug-fueled benders or nightclub culture. They are the opposite of what you'd expect from a ris ... More >>

The Iron Lady Review

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher

Movie Reviews: Piranha 3-D, Centurion

Also, Chasing 3000, The People I've Slept With and more

LACMA Film: Back on the endangered list?

​ La Chienne (The Bitch), by Jean Renoir, screened at LACMA last month. For a month last summer, it looked like the venerable film program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was going to disappear. Then, in late August, thanks to the grassroots efforts of activists like Save Film at LACM ... More >>

Frog of the South

Disney’s song and dance about a black princess croaks

How Do You Say Oscar Scandal in Dutch and Chinese?

We're not sure, but we know when something stinks

GO LA: The Man Who Sold the Brangelina Air

Plus lots more to do, see and inhale in L.A., May 15-21

LA People 2009: Mr. Fix-It — Richard Riordan

Snoop Dogg After Dark: Interview Lite

Crossing Over: Wayne Kramer's Borderline Offensive

Citizen's arrest for tasteless immigrant drama

Film Poll 2008: WALL-E World

The little robot that could tops another chart

The Last Shadow Puppets: Of Arctic Monkeys and Rascals

Britain's the Last Shadow Puppets: Morricone-lite soundtracks for today's hipsters

Disappointments and Surprises: Toronto International Film Festival

When good directors go bad

Behind the Scenes at the Sundance Labs

Building a better screenwriter

The Special Technique of 5 O' Clock Shadowboxin'

You'd be hard-pressed to find two rappers more diametrically opposed than Zilla Rocca and the man known as Weezy F. (Scott Fitzgerald) Baby. The two practically exist in different galaxies. Wayne, an iced out, ecstasy popping maniac from the streets of New Orleans, practically extra-terrestrial in ... More >>

To Everything There Is A Season

As the editor of this paper's film pages as well as the chief critic, I try to afford as little coverage as possible to the phenomenon known as “awards season,” in large part because it is a season presumed to end with the handing out of the Oscars — a statuette whose golden luster has been so ... More >>

Walk Through the Valley

Don’t let Paul Haggis’ heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

No Laffing Matter

Los Angeles Film Festival finally comes of age

Evidence Grise

Paul Verhoeven returns to the past � his and ours � in the Holocaust thriller Black Book

The Scars of Oscars

Envy and spite will determine Academy Award winners

New Year in Moscow

Critics� Picks

Our guide to the best of AFI Fest 2006

Le Pierre

There may be no single person who better embodies the Telluride spirit than Pierre Rissient, a lifelong cinephile who has attended Telluride for nearly all of its 33 years and whose resume is as varied as the mountain climate. One of the storied film buffs who inhabited the hallowed halls of Henri L ... More >>

How Gay Will Oscar Go?

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

Seven Men From Now

Remembering Don Siegel

Old Dudes Kicking Ass

A who�s who of Kung Fu Hustle

The Revolutionary: Ludovic Lefebvre at Bastide

Joe Pytka's restaurant under Lefebvre has all the bells and whistles you’d expect in a Michelin-starred French restaurant, and then some

The Other Texan

Dan Rather�s Evening News exit

Film Editor's Choice

Ray Charles Hits the Road

Guilt by Association

United They Sit

Why don’t Hollywood Democrats run for public office?

Barbarian at the Gate

An Arnold candidacy pumps up the political game for Hollywood

Penis Dentatus

Dreamcatcher is for the boys

Mr. California

Doomsday Machine

How Hollywood learned to stop worrying and love the Rooskies

Ambition and Delight

And beauty

He�s a Bounty Hunter

But not in the image of Clint Eastwood or Steve McQueen

Love, Death and D�j� vu

Cupid, Brimstone and Seven Days