Harrison Ford

The Wookiee Wins: Meet the Director of the Chewbacca Doc That Conquered Kickstarter

Silent Hitchcock, Sean Connery and a Coachella Valley Film Fest: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, June 14 The Coachella music festival may be over, but the Coachella Valley is keeping the party going with AMFM (Art Music Film and More) through June 16 in Cathedral City. More than 50 films will screen at the UltraStar Mary Pickford Stadium 14, ... More >>

How to Spot Hollywood's Nonthreatening Black Man (NTBM)

A Wayne's World Reunion and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Friday, April 19 Get an inside look at the process of making a film at the Los Angeles Theatre Foundation's Movies About Making Movies Film Festival at the TCL Chinese Theatre this weekend, starting with a double fea ... More >>

Jackie Robinson Day: Los Angeles, the Dodgers and Major League Baseball Celebrate

It's Jackie Robinson Day, America. And it's Jackie Robinson day across America. The third Monday in January of every year we celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. And on April 15 we remember the day Jackie Robinson became the first "Negro" player in Major League Baseball.

Jackie Robinson's Story Is Partly a Los Angeles Story -- Something 42 Neglects

"Opening Day," says Harrison Ford's Branch Rickey in the Jackie Robinson biopic 42, "is all future. The past is wiped away. It's a clean slate." It's a nice little platitude to mutter in the locker room, but both on the baseball field and in the real world, it's the kind of starry-eyed naive optimis ... More >>

42 Almost Makes Jackie Robinson Into a Man Rather Than a Myth

Writers Guild Awards 2013: Behind the Scenes

Last night, men and women who are more used to working at home in their pajamas donned black tie attire for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards at the J.W. Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live -- and it seemed like a surprisingly number of media didn't really care. (Except us, of course.) With a red carpet th ... More >>

Kamikaze Kitchen: Eddie Lin, Val Herrera, Chef Ben Ford A Smoked Beaver Tail

One of our new favorite web series these days is Kamikaze Kitchen, a collaboration between Good Food and sometimes L.A. Weekly contributor Eddie Lin (DeepEndDining) and Trippy Food blog author Valentino Herrera. The comedic duo just dropped their first episode on YouTube back in September and have p ... More >>

Gods Like Us by Ty Burr: Our Book of the Week

According to the people who track these things, there are roughly 170,000 new books published each year in the United States -- an alarming percentage of which arrive, unbidden, at the L.A. Weekly office. Each week, we'll offer a snapshot of a newish book that's caught our attention. Just as there ... More >>

The Ethics of Superhero Gun Use: Why Indy Does It in Raiders of the Lost Ark But Batman Doesn't in Dark Knight Rises

For all his doom and gloom, Batman isn't exactly an antihero--a point that's worth bringing up right now because another, less tortured hero can currently be found on IMAX screens across Los Angeles: ... More >>

52: House Wonton Soup at China Café

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 52: House Wonton Soup at China Café. In a city so stocked with brilliant Chinese food, it might to seem a bit strange to point out a '20s-era lunch counter hi ... More >>

Raiders of the Lost Ark Opens in IMAX: Remember When Indiana Jones Was Awesome?

The story goes that while filming in Tunisia in the summer of 1980, Steven Spielberg avoided the dysentery that afflicted most of the cast and crew of Raiders of the Lost Ark by holing up in his hotel room with a suitcase full of SpaghettiOs. Like most studio-approved behind-the-scenes errata, that ... More >>

Cowboys & Aliens Review

Bruce Dern, Udo Kier, M. Emmet Walsh

The stars of Cinefamily's "That Guy!" series divulge their secrets

MORNING GLORY

Nightranger: Star Bright

Q & A With Pan Am Room's Norman Fierros: Hairdressing, Life in Phoenix & The Lure of Airplanes

If you've flown into Santa Monica Airport (literally, figuratively) hungry for dinner anytime recently, you're aware that The Hump, the infamous restaurant above Typhoon, is no more. In its place, owner Brian Vidor has remodeled the upstairs space into the Pan Am Room. The reworked restaurant gets i ... More >>

A Day In the Life of Hall H: Mostly Awesome, Briefly Chaotic

Nicole CamposThe Avengers, together at last! A genius ending to an insane day...​ The largest exhibition room at the San Diego Convention Center is Hall H, a huge 6,000-plus seater situated at the complex's south end that every year during Comic-Con International hosts the biggest, baddest, an ... More >>

The Empire Gives Back: Red Carpet 30th Anniversary Screening of 'The Empire Strikes Back'

Erin BroadleyHarrison Ford (Han Solo) and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) together again​ Last night, stars and fans of The Empire Strikes Back gathered at Hollywood's Arclight Theater for a one-night-only screening of the classic film. The Empire Gives Back, a benefit for St. Jude's Children's Hospi ... More >>

Celebrities Frequented Whale-Sushi Restaurant

thehump.biz​If The Hump, the Santa Monica restaurant that allegedly served illegal whale sushi, was not exactly in the same league as its more critically acclaimed competition (Urasawa, Nozawa), it was still on the map for many celebrities, some of whom frequented the eatery after flying into ... More >>

Movie Reviews: When in Rome, Edge of Darkness, Legion

Also, Extraordinary Measures, Saint John of Las Vegas

The Horror! The Horror! 'Halloween II' Prop Auction Saturday

Premiere PropsMichael Myers' clown suit​It wasn't that long ago that props from horror or science fiction films went on the auction block only after the deaths of veteran collectors, or whenever retired prop managers, grips, gaffers or movie construction carpenters who'd salvaged vampire capes or ... More >>

Old World Meets New Age in Thriller Nowhere-Land

A.W. Hill's Stephan Raszer is the thinking man's private eye

Blade Runner, The Auction

This Thursday and Friday the Profiles in History auction house will hold an auction to move the remainder of Forrest Ackerman's horror-fantasy movie treasure trove. The 1,000-item bidding event looks like a delightful mishmash of unsold Ackerman artifacts (including a Dracula ring worn byBela Lugosi ... More >>

Positively Second Street: L.A.'s Tunnel Vision

The L.A Times' car-biz writer Dan Neil has a great piece on the Second Street Tunnel -- its history, going back to 1924; its schizoid appearance, depending on which end you enter, and how it's "probably the most recognizable city landmark most Americans have never heard of," having figured in films ... More >>

The Martini Doctor Is In: Manny Aguirre

Bartender icon, whose bar-side manner has soothed generations of Hollywood's elite at Musso and Frank and beyond, turns 75

Crossing Over: Wayne Kramer's Borderline Offensive

Citizen's arrest for tasteless immigrant drama

Tropic Thunder: Jungle Feverish

If only Ben Stiller and company were as hot and naughty as the P.C. protesters complain

Kamiyama: The Way California Rolls

Waterpillars, Krunch rolls and Philly Slurs — South Bay sushi mecca has it all

Indiana Ford ... and the Kingdom of Lucas and Spielberg

Harrison's daredevil archeologist returns, 19 years after Last Crusade

Green Screen at Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

Lessons in Slime

Oscar Shoe Ins/Outs

Missed the Red Carpet pre-Oscars coverage this year (think we may have still been in bed when E! started airing its tedious fawning sessions with Ryan Seacrest) so we actually had to watch the show itself for a fashion fix. There sure was lots of eye candy. Maybe it was just our new hi-def TV, but ... More >>

Whoa, Nellie! You're the Best!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Movie Reviews: Kurt Cobain: About a Son, Michael Clayton

Also Beyond Hatred, Blade Runner: The Final Cut and more

24/Six

Our Jack of all terrorist trades returns

Station Identification

Music Picks

For the week of May 4 - 11

Driven

In Hollywood, your car is who you are

Continuing Education

Gregory Peck’s Last Exit

Waving the Black Flag: Rollins & Co. Rock to the Rescue

Doomsday Machine

How Hollywood learned to stop worrying and love the Rooskies

Fear Factor

The smart new Tom Clancy thriller could raise more hackles than hairs

The Contender

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu, from Mexico to Hollywood

Turn the Channel

Why those striking actors just can’t get respect — or a contract

Unnecessary Evil

Roman Polanski goes to hell

Flashback

Soderbergh at play, Pollack at rest

Twit Brit Meets Swank Yank

Roger Michell's half-assed Notting Hill

Sex and the Single Fruit Fly

If you can't beat them - mate them!