Edgar Wright

Pleasure in the Rubble: Why the Summer's Last, Smallest Blockbuster Was Its Best

People Are Lining Up for Gallery 1988 Prints. Here's Why.

Head out to Gallery 1988 when either one of its Melrose Avenue outposts is hosting a pop culture-centric, group show opening and you'll see a line. The line will be long. Sometimes there will people who have been holding their spots for hours. Once in a while, you might meet someone who camped out ... More >>

The World’s End Review: A Pub Crawl to End All Pub Crawls

Film Reunites Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the team behind Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead

The World's End Stars Appear at 'The Official Edgar Wright Show' at Gallery 1988

It's just after 6 p.m. and the line for "The Official Edgar Wright Art Show" at Gallery 1988: West is halfway down a side street south of Melrose Avenue. This isn't a mad rush to secure tickets to purchase one of the limited edition prints. It's an orderly queue that has been building since the prev ... More >>

The World's End Creators Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright Versus Starbucksification

'Give us five minutes and we'll change the world.'

Who's Smarmy Now?

Beachwood Sparks Are One of L.A.'s Most Influential Bands You Don't Know

With folk music back in the mainstream consciousness via acts like Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes, the timing for Beachwood Sparks' reunion is right. "I think we were one of the bands that paved the way for that," founding member and bassist Brent Rademaker tells us. He's excited to talk about their new a ... More >>

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

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Edgar Wright to Direct Beard Papa Movie

​We're assuming this is a joke but praying it's not. We'd pay to see a Beard Papa movie directed by Edgar Wright, especially if it was in Smell-O-Vision, especially if we got a job as a puffer (you know, the techs who plump the pastry shells with cream just before the camera rolls).

Eagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Flying Lotus Plans To Direct A Feature Film

[See also "Eagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Feeding People On Their Debut LP And A Particularly Memorable Encounter with the Devil" "Thundercat Emerges With His Debut, Co-produced by Flying Lotus," "Top Five Reasons Why Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma is the Best L.A. Album of the Year," "Flying Lotus Ris ... More >>

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Independence Day = aliens

Los Angeles Film Festival 2011 Preview

Simon Pegg's New Autobiography: Well Done, Nerd!

​ Since he and Edgar Wright unleashed their horror-comedy masterpiece Shaun of the Dead on audiences in 2004, Simon Pegg has become as in-demand a performer here as in his native Britain, not to mention something of an alpha geek amongst genre fans. His deeply-rooted boyhood love of the Star W ... More >>

We Heart Japan Brings Together Anime Industry and Fans for Earthquake Relief at Meltdown Comics

See more photos in Dianne Garcia's gallery "Voice Actors, Artists and Anime Fans Say 'We Heart Japan' at Meltdown Comics." "I always wanted to be an actor and anime was the first job, career thing, that let me be an actor," said Stephanie Sheh at Thursday night's We Heart Japan fundraiser at Meltdo ... More >>

Paul: Planet of the Aping

Too many sci-fi references, not enough Kristen Wiig

State of the Art House

In the capital of cinema, specialty films are losing ground (but there are glimmers of hope)

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MR. WRIGHT COMES TO TOWN

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

NIGHTRANGER: Maulings and Mohawks at the Movies

Allison Anders and Kurt Voss Kickstart New Rock Film, 'Strutter" -- Details From The Directors.

Strutter-ers Dante Ailano White and Ericka Clevenger​Don't Knock The Rock film fest creator Allison Anders has been celebrating rock n' roll, punk, pop and folk in film with DKTR events since 2003, but music has always played a major role in her own films (Mi Vida Loca, Border Radio, Sugartown ... More >>

Precious Little Life

Scott Pilgrim and Michael Cera get soul

Beck, Beachwood Sparks, Broken Social Scene Featured on 'Scott Pilgrim' Soundtrack

Beck, Beechwood Sparks, Broken Social Scene Featured on 'Scott Pilgrim vs. The World' Soundtrack

Edgar Wright and J.J. Abrams in Discussion at LAFF 2010

© Universal PicturesMichael Cera wields the flaming sword of geek chivalry in Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World​ At this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, there has been plenty for the genre crowd to get excited about, from last week's Christopher Nolan conversation to the upcoming ... More >>

Freebie and the Bean

Tarantino Picks His 20 Favorite Flicks of the Past 17 Years

(Some serious gourmet shit)

Video: Quentin Tarantino's 20 Favorite Flicks of the Past 17 Years

Battle RoyaleWhen Ella Taylor asked me to rename my top five films of all time, I tattled off the obvious titles. She then asked, "Any since the last 17 years?""In my top five?" I asked incredulously. "Well, okay, top 10," she relented."Well, let me think about that."And upon later reflection, I rea ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Burning Man Meets Hollywood, Mustache Circus, Shaun of the Dead Outdoor Screening, Swimming with Sharks Pool Party

Now in the final stretch of summer, each weekend we scramble to take in as many decadent hotel pool parties and outdoor film screenings as possible before the long days and warm nights end and we're forced back indoors to get our drink on at crummy dive bars. This weekend we went Swimming with Shark ... More >>

Got Brains? They'll Settle For Pie: Hollywood Outdoor Cinema's 'Shaun of the Dead' Night

Nicole CamposStick that in your corpse pipe and smoke it.There's something about zombies - something innately unifying, a sense of shambling, blood-dribbling community - that brings people together. Especially at a time when the horror genre has turned tide toward mopey emo vampires and the latest ... More >>

Spaced: The Next Frontier, on DVD

The long-awaited release of the British pop-culture phenom loved by Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino

Truckin’ Down the ‘Vard with Papa Joe

"Dante's Inferno": Hollywood Boulevard & Truck Turner The New Beverly Cinema, April 11 The New Beverly Cinema’s runaway-hit series of director-programmed festivals has proved a rousing success so far, with slates lovingly prepared by the likes of Edgar Wright and Eli Roth. It was only a matter ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Boarding Gate, Run Fat Boy Run, Priceless

Also Superhero Movie, Flawless and more

From BIM to "BOOM!"

The Apple and Stunt Rock @ The New Beverly Cinema, March 25th Little gives an LA cinephile greater joy than to see the New Beverly Cinema booming at the start of 2008. In light of longtime owner Sherman Torgan’s sudden and untimely death last year, it seemed as though our last remaining true r ... More >>

Sushi and be Seen

California rolls at Katsuya; Vice disappoints; birthdays, bashes and indie X-mas bling

Film Reviews: Hot Fuzz, Redline and More

Also In the Land of Women and the documentary, Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea