Ed Wood

"Showgirl Is My Yentl": The 145-Minute Showgirls Sequel That Could

Before There Was Elvira

Top 5 Gifts for Bread Bakers: Your Kitchen, My Boulangerie

For some of us, baking bread is something that we do without much thought, whenever it's cold enough to crank the oven, for giving to friends, when our kids demand it, or as a coping mechanism (see: the recent election, long distance relationships, Steve Nash). The smell of bread baking is a fundame ... More >>

Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill Sweeps The Razzies

If the Academy Awards are a back-slapping bore, the Razzies are a bitch-slapping fun fest. Traditionally held on the eve of the Oscars, the annual awards show for the first time took place Sunday night on April Fool's Day at Magicopolis in Santa Monica, the perfect opportunity to lay into the movie ... More >>

There's No Cartoons Like Bad Cartoons

The New Ed Woods

So-bad-it's-good movies are back in vogue

Elvira's World

Cassandra Peterson, pushing 60 and still Mistress of the Dark

Birdemic: Ed Wood, Meet Al Gore

A hypersincere eco freak-out is the new so-bad-it's-good cult classic

Movie Reviews: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Creation, Sherlock Holmes

Also, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

HOORAY FOR BOLLYWEEN

Screamfest 2009: Scream and Scream Again

Zombie GIs, human centipedes take starring roles at annual horror fest

10 Uniquely Noteworthy Posthumous Performances on Film

Get Off Your Rocker and Slam!!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

No Sympathy for You

Splitting town was one thing, but now, is indie icon Long Gone John really swapping his label for some llamas?

Born to Be Rad

John S. Rad, 1936–2007

Inner Sanctum Mysteries The Complete Movie Collection

Go, Johnny, Go!

Depp gives Disney the pirate’s booty

Graphic Oddballs

Funny ha-ha meets funny peculiar in Art Out of Time

High & Outside

2005’s best outsider and experimental music releases

High & Outside

2005’s best outsider and experimental music releases

5 Blogs for Musical Archaeologists

The Passion of the Rad

An enigmatic independent auteur may have made the world’s next great midnight movie

Creation Myths

Theater in time of cell-phone cameras

The Genius, Almost Live

An intermittently inspired Ray falls short of its subject.

Life of a Dodo

What 17th-century England and Hollywood have in common

Outsider In

The Shaggs’ unworldly philosophy

Second Wind

A new generation of filmmakers translates Bill Murray

The Ghastly World of Johnny Legend

Occasionally Lovely, Always Amazing

Highlights of the 2002 Silver Lake Film Festival

Crap Circles

Is Anybody Listening?

The beautiful chaos of Kill Radio

Hollywood Requiem

John Gilmore asks the musical question: Can a serial killer find happiness in L.A.?

Hollywood, Straight Up

The craps-shooting cop, the hungarian brawl and other stories from Steve Boardner's bar

The Devil and Aphrodite Jones

What’s she doing in a world of murderers, rapists, torturers, sadists, blood drinkers, decapitators and pimps? Making a killing.

Mirror, Mirror/Liar, Liar

A pair of comedies set in a ghouls' paradise

The End Is Near!

The last movies of the century

The Total Filmmaker

Steve Martin's beautiful losers

Noir and Then

Los Angeles in old photos, new novels and Ed Wood angora

Korla Pandit, 35 B.C.?-1998 A.D.

Homage to Korla Pandit

Tightwad City

80% free, 20% cheap

Bad Girl

The incredibly strange films of Doris Wishman