Jodie Foster

Elysium Is Too Heavy for Matt Damon to Carry

The 2013 Oscars Drinking Game

The Oscars are on Sunday, and if you plan on sitting through the entire show -- all 3 hours of it, with Seth MacFarland as host -- well, you might need a little help. Which is why we put together a little drinking game: This, hopefully, will give you something to do while the awards are doled out, ... More >>

Silence! The Musical

Slipknot's Clown On His Exit Strategy

The Top Five Metal Guitarists Under The Age of 30 The Ten Bloodiest Metal Album Covers Top Ten Metal Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Metal Nine-piece metal outfit Slipknot begins their headline run on this year's Rockstar Mayhem tour this Saturday in San Bernardino. Their percussionist ... More >>

Roman Polanski's Carnage Reviewed

The parental rage of brownstone Brooklyn

The Whistleblower Review

David Kirby's Lab Coats in Hollywood Explains How Science Makes Sci-Fi and Comic Book Movies Plausible

Jodie Foster plausibly listens for aliens in Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of Carl Sagan's novel Contact.​ When we watch 2001 or Deep Impact or Avatar, how is it that we accept (at least for two hours or so) what we are seeing? As Professor David Kirby of the University of Manchester argues in h ... More >>

Ten Movies Coming Out This Weekend, Including Thor, The Beaver, Something Borrowed and Jumping the Broom

Thor​ Ten movies coming out this weekend, with reviews from our print edition: 10. The summer tentpoles are coming, and this week we have Kenneth Branagh's Thor, which Eric Hynes says is "an astonishingly awkward marriage of ancient Norse mythology and 21st-century nonsense and "works too har ... More >>

The Beaver Review

Mel Gibson, playing mad and loving it

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Eastern spiritualism meets a voracious appetite for VHS in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cannes winner

WHO'S THIS AL GEBRA?

Jodie Foster Accused Of Attacking 17-Year-Old Photog At The Grove

​Los Angeles police said they were looking into an allegation that Jodie Foster "attacked" a 17-year-old photographer at the Grove shopping center over the Memorial Day weekend. The teen claims that Foster poked him in the chest and grabbed his elbow, injuring him, according to the New York Ti ... More >>

Scott Baio, Nanci Griffith, Secret Policeman’s Ball and Other Signs of Aging

What to do in L.A., June 5-11

LITTLE RASCALS GONE BAD

Today in Photographs: May 14, 1973

Tom Sawyer film stars Jodie Foster and Johnny Whitaker, both seen at right, present Mark Twain portrait to students of Venice's Mark Twain Junior High School.LA Times/UCLA

Hindsight Hurts: Revisting the Sex, the Lies and the Videotape

In 1989, she called Steven Soderbergh's first feature "daffy"

Decisions, Decisions

Developmental Disorder: More on "Doomscraper"

Plus, "Nikki Finke is a badass," and other judgmental remarks

“Nikki Finke Is a Badass” ... and Other Judgmental Comments

It’s the season for journalism awards, and over the past two weeks L.A. Weekly has emerged with a significant number of fresh honors in four different contests. In the AltWeekly Awards, jointly administered by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and Northwestern University’s Medill Schoo ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Forever, My Blueberry Nights, My Brother Is an Only Child

Also The Ruins and more

Letters: Biking in Santa Monica, Paddleboating in Echo Park

Our readers write

Come Back Into the Dark

Silent Movie Theatre�s Cinefamily is a gym for the mind

Road to Hell

Terry George�s latest comes with plenty of reservations

Hollywood's He-Man Woman Haters Club

Charter member Jeff Robinov to get rewarded

Letters: Courting the Reporter

Our readers write

Letters: Of Humane Bondage

Our readers write

Something in the Air

In the horror films of Larry Fessenden, what you can�t see will kill you

The Brave One: Femme Fatal

Foster dishes out rough justice

Unmasking the Essential American Soul

Director Neil Jordan on revenge, forbidden hate and the making of a killer

Jodie Foster: Chaos Control

With a controversial new vigilante movie, Jodie Foster takes the driver’s seat

Tell Me You Love Me: The Thinking-Person’s Excuse for Graphic Nudity

The end of meaningless sex

Jackie Kashian

Goodnight, Drummer Girl

Sandy West, RIP

They Could Be Heroes

O.C. Confidential

Rian Johnson�s suburban noir

Inside Job

Spike Lee puts a new spin on an old formula

Fashions of the Red-Carpet Watchers

Get Me to the Church on Time and a Half for Overtime

The state of marriage, gay and straight, in a heterosexual dictatorship

You'll Never Eat Ass in This Town Again

Home Security

None to be had in Fincher�s Panic Room

Royal Treatments

Off

Slingshot to Hyperspace

She Shtups To Conquer

Why is Hollywood so full of whores?

Guess Who�s Coming to Dinner?

The American Nightmare and Hannibal

Babes in Armor

The women of Hollywood

Black Film Now

Et Cetera, Et Cetera, Et Cetera!

Anna and the King, plus The Emperor and the Assassin

Far From the Madding Boy George O'Dowd

Resurfacing

How to avoid looking like yourself