John Cusack

The Drama of Chelsea Wolfe

The gloomy singer-songwriter deals with the shit that comes her way

Lee Daniels' The Butler Chronicles the Civil Rights Movement Through the Eyes of a White House Servant

Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey shine in a cast packed with talented actors

L.A. Film Fest Continues: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *L.A. Film Fest: The Best Movies to See Friday, June 21 On Friday at the Grand Park's Performance Lawn downtown, in honor of the original 1988 Hairspray's 25th anniversary, the L.A. Film Fest and Dance Camera West want you to do the Mashed Potato with Trac ... More >>

Is the Maya Doomsday Theory Offensive?

This card was meant to be funny. But is it offensive to blame today's turmoil on the Maya people? As your Facebook feed might have reminded you, the 2012 doomsday countdown is upon us. And while most people consider the idea of the world actually ending on December 21 to be nothing more than a mark ... More >>

Time Machine Chefs: A New Show About Historical Squirming Chefs, Premiers in August

God forbid we just judge chefs on the food they actually cook. No, instead we must deliver "challenges," throw "curve balls," pull strings and make them squeal and dance for our amusement. The latest in the food reality chef competition genre is Time Machine Chefs, a show based on a premise that sou ... More >>

Cannes Film Festival 2012: Highlights and Lowlights

Why This Song Sucks: David Guetta's "Without You," featuring Usher

Song: David Guetta's "Without You" featuring Usher History: "Without You" is a track from David Guetta's Nothing but the Beat, which he accidentally released as a double disc album earlier this year. FYI, Guetta is a DJ/producer, so he doesn't rap or sing on any of these tracks, he just mostly ... More >>

Terrence Malick, The Too-Quiet American

A skeptic confronts the elusive filmmaker of The Tree of Life

Movie Review: Going the Distance

Revenge of the Spazzes

Savage Steve Holland, on the phone from film jail

WANNA PISS OFF JOHN CUSACK? ASK HIM ABOUT THESE MOVIES

Children of the '80s, All "Grown Up"

From MacGyver to MacGruber: filmmakers pay homage to the pop-culture characters of their youth

Movie Reviews: Chloe, Hot Tub Time Machine, Waking Sleeping Beauty

Also Sweetgrass, West of Pluto, Vincere and more

2012: The End Is Near

Funk Spirit Rising: Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins' Dueling Soul Excursions

Inside the Energy and Funk of L.A.'s Weirdest Music-Making Couple.

Unlike a Box of Chocolates

Taking No Chances

Those searching for signs of how leaner economic times are being felt at Sundance 2009 need look no further than the fact that the festival's opening weekend yielded only one major sale -- and that one was something of a foregone conclusion. Although the tepid reaction to director Antoine Fuqua's Br ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Taking No Chances

Those searching for signs of how leaner economic times are being felt at Sundance 2009 need look no further than the fact that the festival's opening weekend yielded only one major sale -- and that one was something of a foregone conclusion. Although the tepid reaction to director Antoine Fuqua's Br ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Save Me, Take Out, Hounddog

Also, The Pool, Ghost Town, Igor and more

We Are Scientists, Morning Benders, The Blood Arm, El Rey, 7/1/08

We Are Scientists with Morning Benders and The Blood Arm, El Rey, July 1, 2008 Photos by Timothy Norris Last night The Blood Arm performed the first truly excellent theme song for the economic recession of 2008. Dedicated to Jay-Z, referencing Wesley Snipes' three-year jail sentence for tax evasi ... More >>

Savage Steve Times Two

Better Off Dead... and One Crazy Summer American Cinematheque at the Aero, June 23 Left to right: Armstrong, Franklin, Holland An Open Letter to John Cusack: Don’t Be A Dick Hey, Cusack – let’s just level with each other, OK? We know you are a smart guy. We know you are prodigiously tale ... More >>

Capitol Films' Crash and Burn

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

Movie Reviews: Heavy Metal in Baghdad, Postal, War, Inc.

Also, The Cool School, Refusenik and more

KCRW Launches New Guest DJ Sessions featuring Conan O'Brien, Jason Reitman and others

Everybody has an opinion about music, especially celebrities, and KCRW is harnessing this intrinsic reality with a new online series which launches today called the Guest DJ Project. Each week, a member of KCRW's on-air staff interviews a person of note, and broadcasts the results, which so far has ... More >>

Lacking Grace

John Cusack enters the Iraq weepstakes

Film Reviews

Movie Reviews: Bee Movie, Darfur Now, Primo Levi's Journey

Also Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

Short People, Short Lives

At today’s multiplex, kiddie kills are all the rage

I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again

What Hollywood should learn, but probably won’t, from the tent-pole season

Film Reviews: Black Sheep, 1408, You Kill Me

Also Yellow and Broken English

Feb. 2, 2007

Moz the Cat by Kate Sullivan and Chest of Lies by Joshuah Bearman

Kiddie Porn

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

Vintage Dame

Cate Blanchett exhumes Hollywood’s golden era

Sandow's Inferno

Birk and friends bring Dante to paper, stage and screen at the same time

Celebs to the Slaughter

Why Arianna’s Blog Blows

Low Fidelity

The Farrellys strike out with Hornby’s Fever Pitch

Shake It Like a Camera-Phone Picture

Moved by Movies

Cool Times

Hanging with the actor kids at the Oakwood Apartments

Hitler Studies

Polanski's The Pianist and Meyjes' Max

The True Believer

Righteous inquisitor Paul Schrader casts a baleful eye on celebrity and the perils of absolute selfishness

'Everyone’s Too Stupid!'

Ghost World, plus America’s Sweethearts

Love Bites

Romance, American- and Welsh-style

Silver Screams

Music mutilates the movies

The Song Remains the Same

Stephen Frears and John Cusack’s High Fidelity

Tempting Fate

Character and destiny in Being John Malkovich and Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Being Charlie Kaufman

Off-Hollywood's quiet man

All in the Work-Family

Tavernier's act of grace, Newell's comedy of manners

The Vile, Vile West

John Cusack does the little screen; plus, a doc and a cartoon

Human, All Too Human

In defense of The Thin Red Line