Jeff Goldblum

New Year's Eve Solved: Jeff Goldblum Jazz Ensemble to Perform at Crustacean

Are you a jazz fan who hasn't made New Year's Eve plans yet? Have you bought yourself a Christmas present yet? Have you bought us a Christmas present yet? If any of those apply, we've got a delicious suggestion. The very talented and magically charming Jeff Goldblum and his jazz ensemble will be pla ... More >>

Seminar at the Ahmanson and Creation at Boston Court, Reviewed

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jeff Goldblum as a Writing Teacher

Starting this week, we will now include our listings of all ongoing shows, below the new reviews, to help make it easier for you to decide which shows to see this week.The writing of neurologist Oliver Sacks has inspired a new work at Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena -- Kathryn Walat's Creation. S ... More >>

Lawrence Kasdan Interview

Back with a movie about his dog

The Best Of Coachella: Sunday, April 15

See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Saturday, April 14 *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and buzz bands alike, pool parties, and rain, Coachella's first weekend is over. Here are our scribes' favorite moments from Sund ... More >>

Aimee Mann's Christmas Show for People Who Don't Really Like Christmas

See also: Ho, Ho, Hoes? Garfunkel and Oates Have Our Number The annual Aimee Mann Christmas spectacular is becoming a venerable Los Angeles holiday tradition. Now in its fifth year, it's a "Christmas show for people who don't really like Christmas," in Mann's words. We'd call it a blend of comedy ... More >>

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

The Last Days of Disco

A new book provides an inside look at the drug-fueled hedonism at Casablanca Records

What Would 9-11 Be Like in the Age of Social Media?

During the President's health care speech two days ago, the shared experience that is the realtime Internet reacted to a perfect Twitter-fodder event -- Joe Wilson's "you lie" outburst -- with a surprising amount of conversation about the real issue in the room, health care reform. This realtime 2 ... More >>

Vote or Die: Ultimate Guide to SXSWi Panel Picking

'Tis the season for SXSW panel Twitter deluge, or as one attuned tweeter put it, "How to Annoy Your Friends with Social Media Pestering to Vote for Your SXSW Panel." Because we've also spent the better part of the morning slogging through the SXSWi panel goat rodeo (moment of Internet Zen: Yoga For ... More >>

Should We Listen to Stuart Klawans' Call for a Moratorium on Holocaust Movies?

From Reverence to Rape: Plundering Meaning From the Holocaust

Adam Resurrected Peers into the Soul of a Condemned Man

Son of Dog

Jeff Goldblum and Paul Schrader on Their Strange Holocaust Fable

Resurrecting Adam

The Porn of Pain

Suffering may be the great, undying subject of cinema, but at any film festival worth its salt, the escalating volume of calamity, catastrophe and apocalypse means that the conscientious (or congenitally miserabilist) critic risks drowning in pain porn. Stumbling from divorce to rape to abuse to end ... More >>

The Fly Stinks Up the Chandler; Woody Allen and William Friedkin's Puccini Fares Better

David Cronenberg and Howard Shore's insect opera repels

Flies By Night

Movie Reviews: The Midnight Meat Train, Mirrors, Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Also, Henry Poole Is Here, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer and more

Captain Charles Moore

Fighting the plastic plague in the Deep Blue Sea

The Details the Moguls Don't Want You to Know

Film Reviews: Delta Farce, Hollywood Dreams, Fay Grim and more

Also reviews of Even Money, In Search of Mozart and Paris Je T’aime

Film Reviews

Get Lit

L.A.'s literary salons: club-hopping for bookworms

Get Naked for Gaia or Go Clean a Stream

Hoopla's Earth Day Edition

Emma, Actually

In Nanny McPhee, the Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter gets to flex her comic muscles

Water Water Everywhere

Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic, Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve

Unfinished Business

Pushy Arnold gets what he wants. Now what?

King of the Hill

You'll Never Eat Ass in This Town Again

High Plains Joker

Alexander Payne's Wild, Wild Midwest

Holy Moses!

DreamWorks spins the Bible