Dustin Hoffman

L.A. Film Festival 2013: Documentaries About the City, From Rappers to the LACMA Rock

L.A. County Hospital, casting directors and Richard Nixon also feature in a fest brimming with nonfiction SoCal films

Taverna dei Fori Imperiali: When in Rome, Dining with Movie Stars Astronauts

One of traditional decorating elements in Roman trattorias (besides the red and white checked tablecloths, uncomfortable chairs and over bright lighting) are framed photographs of "celebrity" clients. These can often date back decades and whether or not you recognize the face in the frame, it's kind ... More >>

A Janis Joplin Musical Boosts the Pasadena Playhouse Box Office

One Night With Janis provides some nostalgic comfort food

Middle-Earth and the Iranian New Year: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, March 15 The New Beverly Cinema is presenting a David O. Russell double feature starting at 7:30 p.m. Russell, whose Silver Linings Playbook recently won an Oscar for Jennifer Lawrence, first gained attention back in 1994 for his controversial fil ... More >>

Leading Ladies

A String of GOs in This Week's New Theater Reviews, Plus a Best of Fringe Award

The third annual Hollywood Fringe festival is now history, and this L.A. Weekly best of award goes to Eric Davis' demonic Red Bastard. Also check out this week's stage feature on Theatricum Botanicum's production of Shaw's The Heartbreak House, and Guy Zimmerman's The Black Glass. Our critics were ... More >>

HBO Cancels 'Luck' for Being Too Realistic

Turns out David Milch and Michael Mann's hardcore new horse-racing show for HBO, the extremely well-received Luck, was a little too realistic for comfort. PETA started the flamewar last month, enraged at the news that two horses had to be put down in a single season. And when word came today of a t ... More >>

Michael Mann's New HBO Show Luck Is So Hard-core That 2 Horses Have Died Already

We knew Luck would be hardcore. With Deadwood's David Milch on the screenplay and Miami Vice's Michael Mann in the director's chair, HBO's new ode to horse-racing was bound to be grittier and manlier than Cormac McCarthy' 5 'o' clock shadow. But are they taking the realism too far? In a single sea ... More >>

My Week With Marilyn Review

My Week With Marilyn takes the sex out of sex symbol.

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

Marc Maron

Barney's Version Review

Paul Giamatti stars in the film of Mordecai Richler's novel

JEWS AND BASEBALL: AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY

Another Fine Mess: From Chaplin to Bromance

A history of cinematic LOLs in Saul Austerlitz's latest

Norbert Wabnig: Der Kaesehaendler

JON HAMM DIGS MEN IN DRAG

Oh, Camelot!

The Pasadena Playhouse takes a final bow. Again

THEY WROTE THE SONGS

TOM ARNOLD: Laughing With The Stars

GO LA: Lebowski, Tom Arnold and Other Big Events

What to do in L.A., May 8-14

'Anvil: The Story of Anvil' LA Premiere Draws Appearances by Dustin Hoffman, Ryan Gosling, Keanu Reeves and Hair Metal Legends

View more photos of metal legends and celebs in the Anvil premiere slideshow. Timothy NorrisNew supergroup? At the premiere, left to right: Glenn Five (Anvil bassist), Robb Reiner (Anvil drummer), Dustin Hoffman (Academy Award winner, 80s metal enthusiast), Steve "Lips" Kudlow (Anvil singer), Sach ... More >>

Dance Pick: Synapse Dance Theater at the Broad Stage

SMC troupe takes the first dance at the new venue

First Dance

Synapse Dance Theater takes a bow at the Broad

Festive! All! Celebrating Lobsters, Cheese, Downtown, Abbot Kinney and Valley Film

What to do in L.A., September 26-October 2

Decisions, Decisions

Movie Reviews: Gonzo, Tell No One, The Wackness

Also, Diminished Capacity and Holding Trevor

Movie Reviews: Kung Fu Panda, Mongol, Mother of Tears

Also, The Go-Getter, Trying to Get Good and more

The Wire's Lance Reddick: He Might Have Been Bubbles

Lieutenant Cedric Daniels meets his fans

Small Wonder: Mr. Magorium

A movie far less fantastical than its title

Into the Woods

A supernatural view of theater in L.A.

Movies & More

Hearing Voices

In the new Will Ferrell comedy, the truth is Stranger Than Fiction

Straight Time

The Tomato Still Won't Sit

40 Now, 21 Forever

What does age-appropriate mean, anyway?

All the President's Men, Network

The Voice of the Beast

Remembering Eddie Bunker

2004 in Film

Being and Zaniness

I ♥ Huckabees is an existential fun fest

Say It Ain’t So, Mrs. Robinson

The secrets behind The Graduate’s un-sequel

The Alficionado

A man and his (other) car

Death in the Afternoon

Before AIDS got its name

Hot Wheels

Con Artists and 10 Percenters

In Confidence and People I Know

When Moore Is Not Enough

The Oscars give peace a glance

Boycott the Oscars

Give peace — and a bad show — a pass

How Neatly Spreads His Claws

The 18th annual Sundance Film Festival

That Twilight Season

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

Beyond Reasons

Stir of Echoes and The Minus Man

Not a Full House

John Dahl's sleeping beauty