Danny Boyle

Directors Discuss the Obscure, Bizarre Films They Love

Robert K. Elder, a writer and editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, is a veteran of crowdsourced cinephilia, having written The Film That Changed My Life, featuring discussions with film directors on the subject. His new book is The Best Films You've Never Seen, which discusses those films that never re ... More >>

World War Z Gets the Action Right But Botches the Bigger Ideas

In the end, however, all that matters is Brad Pitt

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Richard III In Overdrive

Zombie Joe's Underground and director Denise Devin turn Shakespeare's Richard III into an enthralling one-hour redux, says critic Jenny Lower. The production is this week's pick of the week. For all the latest new theater reviews, and comprehensive theater listings, see below. Beauty to be found in ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Pulitzer Finalist About the Iraq War

Lee Melville, a true gentleman and decades-long friend of our theater, died last night. Melville was a critic and editor at Drama-Logue and, most recently, L.A. Stage. More details as they come in. Christopher Shinn's drama Dying City, about a family in the wake of the Iraq War, being performed a ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jacobean Incest Melodrama

The scandal surrounding a love affair between a brother and his sister forms the centerpiece of John Ford's 17th century play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Archway Theatre's downtown production is this week's pick. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and comprehensive theater listings. Thi ... More >>

Theater to See This Week, Including a Riveting Police Story

L.A. Weekly critic Lovell Estell III found a police melodrama Cops and Friends of Cops to be a refreshingly unpredictable new play, and made it this week's Pick. Good reviews also for Peter Pan, presented by the Blank Theatre at Second Stage, and Falling for Make Believe, a play about the theater at ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity

Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwig, Trish Hadley and the LMR troupe for their talent, and thanks for all the kind missives from people who had ... More >>

James McAvoy Stars in Trance, Danny Boyle's Take on the Inception Genre

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Triumphant Return of a Latter-Day Judy Garland

Tracie Bennett knocked the socks off our critic Tom Provenzano with her impersonation of Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson, which he made this week's Pick of the Week. Also Bill Raden had good things to say about S.O.E. -- Jami Brandli's clever, three-character riff on the venerable ... More >>

Trainspotting

Danny Boyle Talks Trainspotting Sequel, Partying at SXSW and Zombies

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle has an almost childlike quality about him. He appears to approach his surroundings with the brimming excitement of a kid who is just about to open a present and the sincerity of someone who hasn't been in this business for over 20 years. The moment people recogniz ... More >>

From Danny Boyle to The Big Bang Theory: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, March 8 As the first official LGBTQ student organization in any evangelical graduate theological school, OneTable at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena hopes to facilitate conversation between Christians and the gay community through its ... More >>

From Trainspotting to Mean Girls: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to check out this week: Thursday, Sept. 13 Comedian Mike Birbiglia has what appears to be a permanent befuddled expression that is both self-deprecating and endearing. Same can be said about his feature debut, Sleepwalk With Me. Although the semi-autobiograp ... More >>

Keanu Reeves Shows Off His Inner Filmmaking Wonk After Screening of Side by Side

When most people think of Keanu Reeves, "inquisitive cinephile" may not be the first description that comes to mind. With roles in films from the action flick Point Break to cult-fave fantasy franchise,The Matrix, the mild-mannered actor is known more for his signature, low-key line delivery than hi ... More >>

Movie Studios Are Forcing Hollywood to Abandon 35mm Film. But the Consequences of Going Digital Are Vast, and Troubling

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Bela Tarr and Bollywood

Drink This Now: Cat Juggler at Caña The Recipe

The last time we got around to reviewing Caña's seasonal cocktail menu, it was about two weeks before the season ended. You can no longer order the Misti Dawn Swizzle, our favorite temporal libation unless, just maybe, you ask oh-so-sweetly or you happen to be porn star Misti Dawn. Since no one wil ... More >>

Oscar Mild

'90s mavericks may have bum-rushed the establishment, but the more the Oscars change, the more they stay the same

127 HOURS

Sleepless in Toronto

Self-curation as self-protection at TIFF

Telluride: Down From The Mountain

Studios trek to Colorado festival in search of art-film street cred

Hollywood's Labor Pains or, Why the Numbers Still Matter

​Although the official start of Fall is still a couple of weeks away, Hollywood's Autumnal Equinox is already upon us, as the books are closed on the 2009 summer movie season and the curtain goes up on the Toronto International Film Festival, the still-humid summer air starting to hum with the fir ... More >>

Birth of a Zombie Nation: The Undead in the Movies

From Bela Lugosi's zombie love slave to George Romero's Living Undead through the soulless corporate workers of more recent films

Coachella Day 2: The Power of Pulchritude and Paper Planes

Timothy NorrisM.I.A.'s dancers: Working it harder than Maya As I wriggled out of the teeming crowd that clotted for M.I.A, I eavesdropped on the Spalding basketball-bronzed sorority sisters speaking behind me: "If I was like a dude, I would totally want to do M.I.A." Personally, M.I.A. doesn't real ... More >>

KCRW Guest DJ Project Features Jonathan Gold This Week

KCRW's ever-illuminating Guest DJ Project, which this year alone has featured Danny Boyle, Zach Braff and Sara Vowell, among others, this week offers the LA Weekly's Pulitzer-Prize-winning food editor and former music editor Jonathan Gold, who picks five tracks to share with listeners.

Academy Gets Nominations Wrong — Again

It's far more riveting to watch upheavals at SAG and Variety

Rick Ross, Slumboss Millionaire: A Closer Look at the Real-Life Inspiration Behind "Southern Gangsta"

With a tip of the cap to Danny Boyle and A Way Between Voice and Presence, we take a deeper look at the alternately painful and joyous recollections that led to the construction of Rick Ross' verse on Ludacris' "Southern Gangsta." Little known fact: Ross' boss qualities are purported to be the in ... More >>

Snarking the Awful Golden Globes

... because they have zero integrity and credibility

Best Movies of 2008: Great Expectations

Glimmers of hope in concentration camps, industrialized ghettos and the refuse of a barren planet

Film Poll 2008: WALL-E World

The little robot that could tops another chart

Fall Film: Slumdog Millionaire: Game Show Masala

Bollywood Meets Hollywood

Fall Film: From Manchester to Mumbai with Danny Boyle

A Filmmaker Less Ordinary

Celebuspeak: My Neighborhood is a Hybrid, Driving the Westside and Beyond!

BY HAL SPARKS When I'm not on a stand-up tour of the country, thrilling people in the Bible Belt with my razor sharp wit and polysyllabic dissections of pop culture and socio-political shenanigans, I live in Los Angeles. I have loved here, I have lost here... I shot Dude, Where's My Car?, Spider- ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Bucket List, Persepolis, The Great Debaters

Also National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and more

Danny Boyle’s Sunshine

Lost in space

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

209 Weeks Later

War on zombies, war on terror, what’s the diff?

Hell Is for Children

Two films by celebrated indie directors mine the kicks to be had when bad things happen to young people

The Year's Best DVD Gift Boxes

Pipe Dreams and Pipe Bombs

Garage Days and The Anarchist Cookbook

Undead Do Dance

Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and Guy Maddin’s Dracula

The Reanimators

28 Days Later’s Alex Garland and Danny Boyle

Hollywood Moment: Monstrous, Magnificent Spall

Wasteland

Sperm in a cup; plus Nic Cage

Good Grief

Edward Bond’s Saved

Wonder Boys and Girls

Our year at the movies

I Shot Patrick Bateman

Mary Harron on her American Psycho

Mourning Mum

Four Orphans grieve in Glasgow

Beached

DiCaprio finds trouble in Paradise

True Brit

Shane Meadows gets real with TwentyFourSeven