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Prisoners Is Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal's Ploy for Oscars That's Bound to Fail

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, September 13 Monophonics THE MINT Monophonics are like a whole section of the record store come to life -- especially that wall above the register where they keep the serious stuff. The Bay Area band do acrobatic son ... More >>

Music Picks: Mad Decent Block Party, Weeknd, Cold War Kids

Telluride Film Festival 2013: A Wrap-Up

Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] See also: Exclusive: A Disgruntled Label Exec Spills the Beans About Taylor Swift's Insane-Sounding New Album Song: Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Ba ... More >>

Exclusive: A Disgruntled Label Exec Spills the Beans About Taylor Swift's Insane-Sounding New Album

Big news: Young country-pop starlet Taylor Swift took a bit of time out from making the "Who me?" face to record another album. Red, out October 22, is about "relationships and breakups," according to Swift, and its first single is called (no shit) "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." She's be ... More >>

Top 12 LGBT Movies You Need To See, as Picked by Film Fest Organizers

Outfest, L.A.'s gay and lesbian film festival, ended on Sunday, reminding us that films about the LGBT experience serve an important role in the community, from teaching teenage boys and girls that it's alright to kiss other boys and girls, respectively, to connecting social activists with images su ... More >>

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Alexia Tsotsis, LA Weekly Alum, Too Snarky for Moviefone/AOL/Huffington: High Five!

FacebookAlexia Tsotsis, scheming up snark like it's her job​So this is what happens when the snark training at Village Voice Media leads to a responsible career at an uncool corporation. It's just as we thought! One receives stern, pent-up (but rose-smelling) letters from the mother ship, advi ... More >>

10 2011 Films We're Psyched About

Terrence Malick, Tintin and a killer psychokinetic tire

LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS

AFI Fest A to Z: Hey Man, Yeah

Our critics' picks for what to see and skip at this year's festival

Over the Weekend: Mumford & Sons at the Music Box

​ Throw your hymnal down. Now...dance on it! The dynamic quartet that is Mumford & Sons consists not of a man named Mumford and his children, but four early-twenty-somethings called Marcus Mumford, Country (That's right, Country) Winston, Ben Lovett and Ted Dwane. In a performance that left t ... More >>

Movie Reviews: After the Cup, Shrek Forever After, Prince of Persia

Also, Sex and the City 2, Survival of the Dead and more

I Love You Phillip Morris: Out of the Closet, but Not out in Theaters

Why the funniest, most subversive film of the year — starring Jim Carrey as a gay felon — isn't coming to your local multiplex anytime soon

Movie Reviews: Armored, Brothers, Everybody's Fine

Also, The Last Station, Transylmania and more

Hollywood Farmer's Market

It's stone fruit season! Hollywood's Farmer's Market is huge, delicious, pretty easy to get to from many parts of town, and nicely scheduled for Sunday mornings. Still plenty of this season's cherries left. And after you've got your bags of fruit you can check in at Amoeba or join a protes ... More >>

Capitol Films' Crash and Burn

The company's cash crunch is shutting down indie after indie

Ordinary Rendition

It’s not torture, but this latest Mideast thriller’s as conventional as they come

Don't Swerve and Drive

What to do in Los Angeles this week

The Kingdom: Shoot 'Em Up

Peter Berg sends Jamie Foxx to fight the enemy

Where the Crowds Are

What to do in L.A. this week

Collateral Damage

Zodiac examines the killer’s other victims

Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007

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

Paws for Effect

What to do in L.A. this week

Brokespoke Alp

Jake Gyllenhaal's ride to nowhere?

Freaks and Cleats

For the week of July 7-13

Almost Famous

En Vogue

Prada probes the Wintour of a former assistant’s discontent

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Music Picks

For the week of June 1 - 7

Apocalypto

Darko director’s Cannes premiere is prophetic in all the wrong ways

Horsefeathers

Pundits can’t stop calling Brokeback Mountain a “breakthrough.” The question is: Why?

Risin' Up, Straight to the Top!

    Not one but three people I went to high school with were nominated for Oscars last night (Matt Dillon, Dan Futterman, and Bennett Miller) so I was kinda jazzed for the whole whoop-de-doo; I had my spiritual "Go Tigers" pom-poms out (our Mamaroneck High School theme song was Survivor's ... More >>

How Gay Will Oscar Go?

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

Horsefeathers!

Pundits can’t stop calling Brokeback Mountain a “breakthrough.” The question is: Why?

Lonesome Doves

Riding the range with Ang Lee’s lovelorn cowboys

Nightranger

Do You IMDB?

How a fanatic helped put Hollywood under one big tent

Getting their hey ya yas on

United They Sit

Why don’t Hollywood Democrats run for public office?

Boycott the Oscars

Give peace — and a bad show — a pass

Appearances: What Would Warren Do?

Transports and Transplants

Affairs of the heart in The Good Girl and Blood Work

Back to the Future Darkly

Writer-director Richard Kelly

Childhood’s End

What’s eating Donnie Darko