Donnie Darko

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally Celebrate 10 Years Together By Returning to Where They Met: the Stage

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 Ask someone to define "Hollywood marriage" -- as in the working-actor-to-working-actor kind -- and chances are the answer you get won't contain words like "stable" or "secure" or "long-term" or "a good bet." The longstanding tr ... More >>

Aaron Axelrod's Music and Painting Performances Light Up Downtown's Vortex Dome

Exclusive: A Disgruntled Label Exec Spills the Beans About Taylor Swift's Insane-Sounding New Album

Big news: Young country-pop starlet Taylor Swift took a bit of time out from making the "Who me?" face to record another album. Red, out October 22, is about "relationships and breakups," according to Swift, and its first single is called (no shit) "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." She's be ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, July 30 Big K.R.I.T. EL REY THEATRE The South rises again in the form of Big K.R.I.T. ("king remember in time"), a marvelously dexterous rapper-producer from Mississippi who insists that it's "Cool 2 Be Southern" on his debut full-length CD, Live From the Underground. He has produced key tr ... More >>

Music Picks: Kaskade, Dirty Projectors, Ondatrópica

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/21 - 5/25

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "If, however, you have neither a backyard nor a grill, you can participate in another great American tradition of finding someone else do the work for you." BBQ Flowchart: Where You Can Be Up to the Grill in Meat. "Noodle m ... More >>

Welcome to Los Angeles: YOU'RE SO UGLY!!!

It would have been stupid to think I could take this job and avoid being compared to Jonathan Gold. I have to admit, though, I did not think the first comparison would have to do with our looks. And yet, that's exactly what happened when Eater L.A. posted a blurry photo taken at a panel I moderated ... More >>

Bobcat Goldthwait Interview

On stand-up, leaving Hollywood, and his version of 21 Jump Street

Beware the Easter Bunny

OverDoz - The Roxy - 11/22/11

See also: Meet OverDoz: L.A.'s Freakiest, Cheekiest Collective OverDoz The Roxy 11/22/11 A beat before the curtain dropped on their show last night, OverDoz's de facto leader, Kent, addressed the audience soberly, "We did this shit all by ourselves." He could have been referring to any number of ... More >>

Hollywood Boulevard's Costumed Characters: How I Became One For a Night...as a Stripper Bunny

Hollywood Boulevard stripper bunny​Those people who stand outside of Mann's Chinese Theater in costumes, taking photos with tourists for tips -- do they have a union? Is there some kind of street performers license they need? Are there a bunch of unspoken rules about territory? What it I bec ... More >>

Top 10 Artworks Inspired by Cult Movies From the 'Crazy 4 Cult' Book and Art Show, Including Fight Club, TRON and Back to the Future

​Sometimes life imitates art. Or maybe it goes the other way around. But at Gallery 1988, art imitates art at the annual "Crazy 4 Cult" exhibit, a conglomeration of pieces inspired by some of the most celebrated cult films in history. The show, which opens again on July 8, has featured art ri ... More >>

Phillip Noyce Says 'Film is Dead,' Richard Kelly's Had 'Nothing But Failure' and Ruben Fleischer Bemoans 'Poo Poo Pee Pee Jokes' at LAFF

Timothy NorrisPhillip Noyce​ Phillip Noyce's velvety accent and snow-white mane made his aphorisms sound handed down from on high while Richard Kelly and Ruben Fleischer offered two examples of what it means to be a young filmmaker at a panel of directors at the L.A. Film Festival on Sunday.

Kevin Smith: "I Am So, Like, Sick of Movies and Shit"

On the road with the cult filmmaker turned podcaster turned DIY warrior

Weird Science: Bad Hare Day

Not N. rex. Even scarier, the Donnie Darko bunny.​Enormous bunny rabbits, six times the size of today's rabbits, roamed Minorca three to five million years ago, reports Discovery News. Too big to hop, the well-marbled creatures, ominously known as N. rex, dragged their cottontails around the C ... More >>

Pat the Zombie: Do Babies Make Good Zombies? Author Aaron Ximm Answers.

​ Remember Pat the Bunny? That warm and fuzzy childhood book now has a sick, sick cousin Pat the Zombie. "Something about the brain-numbing prose of the original Pat the Bunny -- and the acute appeal of a zombie touch-and-recoil book -- just popped for me at once," author Aaron Ximm says. ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Screenings with a shelf life to catch before it’s too late

The Box’s Richard Kelly: Button Pusher

Donnie Darko director keeps it personal with his latest feature

Flick in a Box

Constrained and restrained, Richard Kelly's latest is a hollow package

Soundtrack to Our Lives? Arcade Fire Richard Kelly Team Up for the Box

Arcade Fire Richard Kelly Team Up for the Box

Rock Picks: Erykah Badu, Peaches, The Church, Camera Obscura

Also, Au Revoir Simone, Patrick Wolf, The Field, Fortress of Amplitude and others

LA People 2009: Fucking With Drew Barrymore

Movie Reviews: The Great Buck Howard, Perestroika, Knowing, Sin Nombre

Also, Explicit Ills, Virtual JFK and more

Movie Reviews: Ben X, Four Christmases, Special, Transporter 3

Also, Fix, Lake City, The Matador and more

Comic-Con 2008 - Wrath of Con Party @ The Hard Rock Hotel

As you can see from our multiple galleries of Comic-Con 2008 photos, there was much revelry exploding all over downtown San Diego all weekend long. Of course, off the convention center grounds the festivities continued at multiple off-site screenings and parties, one of the biggest of which took pl ... More >>

James Marsden: Low Profile and Loving It

That guy

Apocalypse No

Choking on Southland Tales’ all-you-can-eat cinematic buffet

Ordinary Rendition

It’s not torture, but this latest Mideast thriller’s as conventional as they come

Erased

The Side Man

Apocalypto

Darko director’s Cannes premiere is prophetic in all the wrong ways

Eye of the Storm

Mike Andrews: Making sad and beautiful music for grown-ups

Director's Cut Series: Heaven's Gate

Walk-ins Welcome

From Jarvis Cocker to Van Dyke Parks, you never know who’ll drop in on the “Open Mike Andrews”

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