Indiana Jones

Ten Guys Every L.A. Gay Has Probably Dated

After the Weekly's piece a few weeks ago about the ten guys that every girl in L.A. has probably dated, an Angeleno writer who goes by Brian Wilson -- yes, not his real name, but good enough for us -- offered to give us his take on the gay scene. Here's his top 10. 10. The Guy Who Only Exists Virt ... More >>

From Lawrence to Rambo: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see: Thursday, December 27 The Rambo movies weren't always standard-issue action. One need look no further for proof than First Blood, the first entry in the series--not to mention the only one directed by Ted Kotcheff, whose Wake in Fright enjoyed a deser ... 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 >>

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 >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/14 - 5/18

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Animals have been talking to me. And any shaman will say that that's not that weird." Q & A With Roy Choi: Slinging Tacos at Midnight, Calling Out Jamie Oliver Choi's Vegetable Moment. "After all, in Los Angeles, nothing ... More >>

Loco Moco at Tak's Coffee Shop

For around four decades Crenshaw's Holiday Bowl was not just a bowling alley, bar, and coffee shop, but a cultural hub for South Central Los Angeles. Founded in 1958 by Japanese entrepreneurs who had been released from Manzanar's internment camps a decade earlier, it became a neighborhood enclave fo ... More >>

Lawrence Kasdan Interview

Back with a movie about his dog

Q & A With Survivor Coach Benjamin Wade: The Survivor Diet, Eating Termites $320 Chicken Parmesan

The very thought of choosing to be deprived of food for money is completely mind-boggling to us. Doing that for the amusement of the American television viewing public rockets that plan straight to the top of the absolutely never list. Yet, for Benjamin "Coach" Wade, that's exactly what he did - thr ... More >>

Night Gallery Moves in to Chateau Marmont: Move Over, Lindsay Lohan

Night Gallery, already one of the coolest and most intriguing galleries in Los Angeles, took their practice to another level this past Sunday night by holding a special exhibition and private hosted party at Bar Marmont, the chic little bar at the legendary Chateau Marmont hotel. A small lounge and ... More >>

10 Cats Who Eat Better Than You: At The Santa Monica Cat Show

Gendy AlimurungWhat did your cat eat today?​ Does your cat eat better than you do? Some of these kitties at the recent Santa Monica Cat Show do. I asked their respective humans what is the fanciest, tastiest, nommiest thing they feed their cats. Keep reading to learn what they said, or 10 Cats ... More >>

Harry Potter Art at Nucleus Gallery

Gendy AlimurungJ. Shea: Thestral​If you couldn't handle waiting in line for two hours to get into Nucleus Gallery's recent extremely packed Harry Potter-themed art show, this is the sort of thing you missed. That's a hanging sculpture of a thestral in the photo above. Awesome, right? The rest ... More >>

Low-Budget Indy: Cult DIY Version of Raiders of the Lost Ark to Screen at Cinefamily's Everything Is Festival

Rolling Boulder FilmsChris Strompolos on the ride of his life in his grainy, DIY version of Raiders of the Lost Ark​ "In the DIY filmmaking world there seems to be this weird competitiveness over how little people have to work with and how much they're able to do," says Chris Strompolos at Ma ... More >>

Eat This Now: Churros at Churros Calientes

T. Nguyen​ We love Salina's Churro Truck and Mr. Churro and other wonderful places that offer Mexican-style churros, but every once in a while, our sweet tooth gets a hankering for the type of churros you'd find served in parts of Spain and Venezuela. These are a smaller, a bit more delicate ... More >>

The Belle Brigade: All in the Family

Sibling act is not afraid to suck

L.A. School Police Officer Shot in Chest at El Camino High in Woodland Hills

The El Camino High shooter fired a semiautomatic handgun at an L.A. school police officer​Update: "LAPD Chief Says Jeffrey Stenroos, L.A. School Officer 'Shot in Chest' at El Camino High, Was Lying." Updated after the jump: Did the LAPD overreact to the sort-of-on-campus shooting? Plus, there ... More >>

Indiana Jones Triple Feature

LEAN, GREEN FIGHTING MACHINE

Live Review: Frightened Rabbit at The Mayan Theater

Andrew HansonScott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit greets the crowd.​ Last night Scottish natives Frightened Rabbit spent their last night in Los Angeles in grand fashion at the Mayan Theater. The strangeness of the choice of venue was not lost on the band. Looking up wonderingly at the walls ... More >>

Restaurant Roll Call for 2009

Last year was rough and many restaurants in Los Angeles could not weather the financial storm. After 28 years of business, Orso closed in November, and just last month Gardens on Glendon, a Westwood staple for 21 years put out a For Lease sign. But while some eateries folded, others such as Bouchon ... More >>

L.A.'s Hottest Mobile Food Vendors Gather in Santa Monica for Gourmet Food Truck Corner

Tracking down all the new food trucks popping up around town can be tiring--especially if you're not constantly checking your Twitter account. Today you can stop texting in traffic and do it in line instead. Twelve of the most buzzed about food trucks in L.A. are gathering at a Santa Monica parking ... More >>

Squid Ink Food Fight: A Game of Chicken, Wings Edition

Football season is fast approaching and that means one thing: it's time to eat incredibly unhealthy food while watching other people exert themselves. But what's a red-blooded American to do when it's almost coin-toss-time and you find yourself inconveniently saddled with a discerning palate? In L ... More >>

New Vinyl Column, Inches, Debuts: New Wax from Mika Miko, Xasthur, Castledoor, Rx Bandits, Shafiq Husayn (MP3)

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (one populate ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Burma VJ, Up, What Goes Up

Also, Departures, Drag Me to Hell, Dance Flick

Up with Cannes, Coppola

The best film to open the Cannes Film Festival in the seven years I've been attending, and just a lovely film all around, the Pixar studios' Up (which opens in wide release next Friday, May 29) suggests what Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino might have looked like if, instead of standing his ground, East ... More >>

The Weekly Goes to the Movies

When writing about them really mattered

Beards, Blazers & Glasses: How Fujiya & Miyagi Helped Mitigitate My Pre-Election Anxiety

Larry David articulated the maddening, finger-nail gnawing, pre-election neuroses far better than I can, so no need to reiterate. This final descent towards election day has been excruciating for us all, to the point where it’s nearly impossible to talk about anything else. Hell, on Friday nigh ... More >>

Thank God It's the End of Summer!

(Annual rant)

Some Alternative Cannes Awards

Che wins the only Cannes prize that really matters: ours

Controversy at Cannes: The Headless Woman

And a lot of big heads too

Super Boll

In a web exclusive, our conversation with the Postal director continues

Cannes Comebacks: Our Midfestival Report

Mike Tyson, Jerzy Skolimowski, Terence Davies and more

Uwe Boll Goes Postal

Notorious German director spars with his critics, makes an intentional comedy

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

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

Shots in the Dark at Cannes 2008

Reflecting its moment, the festival takes a decidedly serious tone

Son of Rambow: Young Blood

Garth Jennings' comedy illuminates the joys of DIY filmmaking

The Lost City; The Voyage of the Short Serpent; the Wonder, the Horror

Two debut novels journey to the farthest reaches

Green Screen at Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

Lessons in Slime

FASHION NIRVANA?

LA Fashion week is in full swing, and though it's too early to make judgments about the season as a whole, some definite trends are already emerging. Hello again grunge! Yes, the plaid flannel is flapping in the breeze once again, along with Chris Cornell hair, motorcycle boots, Indiana Jones-styl ... More >>

When Grim Ghosts Grin

Haunted Mansion fans manifest at Disneyland's Blue Bayou

Fool's Gold: McConaughey and Hudson Plumb the Depths

Sunken treasure

It's Not Just Lunch!

Networking at lunch 2.0

Grey the Transformer

Paramount Pictures’ chief now obeys his DreamWorks masters

Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007

Will the public get off? Or is it just studio masturbation?

Ears to You

Dumb and Dumberer

Why the FCC shouldn’t consolidate without concessions

Almost Infamous

There and back with Punkin Pie

All the World’s a Farm

Chicken Run and other delights from abroad

Babes in Armor

Tia, Cleo and Bruce

Geek Love

Star Wars and me

Go Ahead, Make My Polygonal Day

Game character Lara Croft busts out to pop stardom.