Harvey Weinstein

How USC Grads Freddie Wong and Ryan Coogler Became the Future of Filmmaking, Via Two Very Different Paths

Fruitvale Station was a hit at Sundance, while Video Game High School has millions of teen fans

A Series on the Japanese Animation of Studio Ghibli Returns to L.A.

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/7 - 1/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Among the topics? Secret burger menus, fair food, ostrich omelets and plenty of old guys in the desert." Top 5 Huell Howser Food Episodes: In Memoriam. "4. Eat a meatball sub any time someone thanks Harvey Weinstein." Tina ... More >>

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's Drinking Game for the Golden Globes

Those zany gal pals Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have come up for a drinking (and eating and stripping) game for the 70th Annual Golden Globes, which they will be hosting this Sunday on NBC. As Fey told the Hollywood Reporter, "When you get a bunch of people in a room who don't eat much, and you give th ... More >>

Killing Them Softly Review: Violent Brad Pitt Drama Argues Crime Is Just Business

Movie Violence Has Never Been Better. But Here's the Problem...

Part of the renascent body-count action industry, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning mere existence might shock many Americans. "There are four Universal Soldier movies?" those shocked Americans would say. They might also be taken aback by the bracing violence that marks the film from stem to stern ... More >>

Horror Movies to See in October That You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Master's Master

Paul Thomas Anderson on his new 70 mm film

Cannes Film Festival: Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly and Gael Garcia Bernal in No

The opening credits of the Brad Pitt-starring Killing Them Softly are set to snatches of Barack Obama's 2008 Democratic Convention speech, focused on the notion of "the American promise," jarringly jump-intercut with scenes of Frank (Scoot McNairy) making his way through a tunnel onto a dismal Ameri ... More >>

Cannes Film Festival: Lawless, Laurence Anyways, Beyond the Hills

As a major festival like Cannes wears on, my notebook accumulates more scrawl than I can translate into full blog posts. So, behold! The first of likely several notebook dumps, with thoughts on John Hillcoat's bootleggers-with-hearts-of-gold vs. sexually-ambiguous-evil-fed and weak-ass local lawmen ... More >>

School Bullies Are The Cool Kids, Says UCLA Researcher

The old read on school bullies was that they were making up for low self-esteem. Every punch in the shoulder, every atomic wedgie was a cry for help and attention. Right? Wrong, says UCLA professor of developmental psychology Jaana Juvonen. She argues that your local campus bully is, indeed, the c ... More >>

2012 Best Picture Nominees: Performed by L.A. Bars and Restaurants

Playing host and home to the Academy Awards, this town vibrates with excitement (Editor's note: Or something, depending on your thoughts re 9/11 and Hawaiian shirts, Harvey Weinstein and whether or not you, too, wanted a refund after seeing The Artist, as did some folks in Liverpool) by the end of F ... More >>

10 People Who Mattered in Movies this Year

​By Ernest Hardy, Karina Longworth and Mark Olsen Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

My Week With Marilyn Review

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

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

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

Oscar Mild

'90s mavericks may have bum-rushed the establishment, but the more the Oscars change, the more they stay the same

Sundance's Prodigal Children Return

Film festival programmed like re-discovery channel

Blue Valentine Movie Review

Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams Get It On

Sundance's Rebel Yell

The festival goes back to its roots — or does it?

Nine: So You Think You Can Direct

Rob Marshall tries to connect the dance numbers

Hollywood's Labor Pains or, Why the Numbers Still Matter

​Although the official start of Fall is still a couple of weeks away, Hollywood's Autumnal Equinox is already upon us, as the books are closed on the 2009 summer movie season and the curtain goes up on the Toronto International Film Festival, the still-humid summer air starting to hum with the fir ... More >>

Che, Cannes and Hi-Def Video

Steven Soderbergh, 20 years after his Sundance hit

Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Foundas on Film: Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Deadline Hollywood: Shameful Oscar Overspending

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

Night 2 of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks at the Hollywood Bowl, Saturday, Nov. 8 Setlist

The second night of Van Morrison's revisit of his classic 1968 album Astral Weeks was a bit looser, a bit less immediate and, well, not as great as the first night. Don't get me wrong: the audience was more excitable on Saturday, standing to dance for "Brown Eyed Girl," shouting along the spelling o ... More >>

AFI Fest Grows Up - Finally!

No, Er, Yes, Doubt

The Saga Behind Harvey Weinstein, Scott Rudin and The Reader

A $1 million offer I couldn't refuse

Ellen Page Defects, Fox's Archive Withers and the Moguls Hit Ketchum, Idaho

Inglorious Bastards and ungrateful bitches

Project Jump Ship: Moguls Fight Fiercely Over Runway

... agents Endeavor to change

High Rollers, Humbled Harvey and The Hills

Why is nothing in show biz as it seems?

Kiddie Porn

From Dakota Fanning’s rape to John Cusack’s daddy issues, Sundance 2007 was all about child exploitation

The Sundance Kids

For alumni of America’s most prestigious film festival, winning is less than half the battle

Hardened Arteries and Empty Calories

Fast Food Nation and For Your Consideration pillory American excess

The Accidental Publicist

Mickey Cottrell

Have They No Shame?

Oscar gets a razzie for kissing Marty’s and Harvey’s butts. Plus, who’ll win and who’ll lose.

Hollywood Overheard

Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

The Dwarf Got Dissed

Why this year’s Oscars suck more than usual

Hollywood OVERHEARD

Hollywood OVERHEARD

Boycott the Oscars

Give peace — and a bad show — a pass

A Moment Like This

Freeways to Perdition

Under the Lava Lamp

Sleepless in Montmartre

Amélie —love her or else

Beauty and the Beast

French cinema battles Hollywood’s global movie offensive

Guy, Interrupted

Writer-director James Mangold

Under the Skin

The 52nd Festival de Cannes

Hypeless in Toronto

Days for Night

Sundance ’98