Johnny Depp

Go Big and Remember Johnny Ramone With Cry-Baby: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Saturday, Aug. 17 Blue Exorcist the Movie is based on the popular manga written and illustrated by Kazue Kato (which became an anime television series in 2011). The story follows Rin Okumura, the teenage son of Satan, in his quest to avenge the death of hi ... More >>

Behind the Masks of Hollywood Boulevard's Famous Characters

There are lots of characters in Los Angeles, but not many of them struggle into hot costumes, hover near the Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in 90-degree heat and charge tourists to take their pictures. You see them hamming it up as you gamely review the Walk of Fame with your latest out-of-t ... More >>

The Lone Ranger Is Such Disney Overkill That It Even Wastes Johnny Depp

At the Prism Awards, Hollywood Honors Accurate Portrayals of Mental illness

Hollywood has a checkered history of covering mental health and substance abuse, reaching bottom with Nightmare on Elm Street. A young Johnny Depp played the killer as a schizophrenic, imprinting that image of mental illness on millions. To counteract such stigma, the Entertainment Industry Counci ... More >>

How to Win Friends and Piss Away an Acting Career

Aerosmith - Hollywood Bowl - 8/6/12

Aerosmith plays to a sold out crowd at the Hollywood Bowl last night -- joined by Johnny Depp on stage.

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Baseball, Bikes and Body Snatchers

On the Streets With Hollywood's Autograph Hunters

A sea of screaming faces beckon movie stars to the sidewalk, where they conjure photographs, baseballs and -- when Johnny Depp appears, even a replica Freddie Krueger glove for him to sign. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, they downright beg for an autograph, yelling until their voices turn hoarse ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Rock Hudson, Robert Bresson and all-night avant-garde

Dark Shadows and God Bless America Reviewed

The latest from Tim Burton and Bobcat Goldthwait

Top Ten Best Historic Rock Clubs in L.A.

For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See also: Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List L.A. has some of the best rock n' roll venues in the country. From the sparkly glam rock of the Sunset Strip to the grimy punk of dim little clubs in questionable ar ... More >>

I'm on a Boat: Why So Many Places in Koreatown Have Nautical and Pirate Designs

At the center of the city, there is a 100-foot-long ocean liner dry-docked in a parking lot. It would seem out of place in many if not most L.A. neighborhoods. Except here. Landlocked Koreatown is bobbing with nautical-themed restaurants, and you can't walk the length of a plank without stumbling in ... More >>

The Rum Diary: Johnny Depp's Hunter S. Thompson

Porn Addiction: The Global Industry Based in Los Angeles is a Growing Problem For ... Women?

Merrick Monroe.Women account for one out of three porn site visitors.​When you think about the audience for the multi-billion-dollar, LA.-based porn industry, you usually think men. That would be a good instinct, but not entirely correct. In fact there's some evidence that women are a big sli ... More >>

Top 10 Most WTF Band Names at SXSW

​ You'll be kicking up plenty of gravel waiting to see Cee Lo Green, Queens of the Stone Age and The Kills at this year's SXSW. Chances are, the lines will be much, much shorter for Go Back to the Zoo, Hungry Kids of Hungary, Amusement Parks on Fire or the dozens of other requisite oddly-name ... More >>

Rango

Sunset Strip Follies

Waiting for Forever

Top 10 Hollywood Couples You'd Like To See Do Sex Tapes

Mr. & Mrs. Smith​Now that the holidays are over and your warm-and-fuzzy feelings for family and friends have given way to a massive, week-long hangover, we've got just the tidbit to brighten your day. That's right, we've got porn news to kick off 2011 right. Steven Hirsch, honcho at the world ... More >>

The Lives of Angie and Johnny

The Tourist gawks at its stars, visits Venice, has twist

Top 5 Classic Sci-Fi Characters That Would Have Looked Even Cooler with Mustaches

Lando pimped the 'stache even in a galaxy far, far away​We're nearing the end of Mustache May and as people across the web compare facial hair, we couldn't help but wonder if some of our favorite, classic sci-fi characters would look even cooler with a little (or a lot) of fuzz above the lip. ... More >>

When You're Strange: A Film About the Doors

Digital Dillinger: Public Enemies’ Johnny Depp plays hard to get

Michael Mann’s latest is fast and furious

Last Night: Stoned At Stories, Henry Clay People Go Under Cover for "The Wit & Wisdom of Keith Richards" book bash.

A crusty, drug-damaged caricature or the personification of cool itself? When it comes to Keith Richards, there are essentially two camps. For Rolling Stones fans, the man, his guitar-playing, his (however unintelligible) words, and his wholly droll essence, is tantamount to rock n' roll deity. An e ... More >>

CRAZY 4 CULT 2: THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL

A pop flashpoint of artistry, influence and inspiration from lovers of all things cult cinema, Crazy 4 Cult is back for seconds at Gallery 1988 in Hollywood. The sophomore effort - "This Time It's Personal" - opened on Friday night to a packed room and a long queue of pop cult-savvy geeks trailing d ... More >>

Ghoul Talk

Hollywood's Always-Delicate "Friendships" Feel Even More Strain

Depp's loyal heart and Moonves' disloyal buds

Once Bitten

Viper Room still has bite; the music underground; punk books rock

Sunset Smackdown

Clowns to the left, hipsters to the right

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Throw Captain Jack overboard

Keef DID NOT snort his Daddy ok?

Okay, I may be the biggest Rolling Stones fan I know (except for maybe Falling James) but I'd defend my hero on this one regardless. Snorting his pops? It's soooo Keith Richards to say something like that. I've studied him, I've met him, I know. But c'mon even if you're just a casual fan, you're f ... More >>

He's a Woman's Man

The philosophy of Jack Sparrow (or a reasonable approximation thereof)

From Russia With Love

Best auto bodywork for the bourgeoisie and proletariat

Go, Johnny, Go!

Depp gives Disney the pirate’s booty

Yo Ho-Hum

Pirates of the Caribbean is one hell of a ride... now, about the movie

Super-Manly Makeovers, Slackers and Perkbusters

It’s gonna be a long, hot summer in Hollywood

Nightranger

More Dahl, Less Depp

And bring on the Oompa-Loompas!

Trailer of Tears

It’s gonna be a long, not-so-hot summer movie season

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

A Considerable Town
Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77 — film . . . fashion . . . warm bodies

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

The Other Dr. Strangelove

Bill Condon’s Kinsey, plus Finding Neverland

Aargh!

Pirates of the Caribbean is big, loud, empty

White Line Fever

Ted Demme’s Blow

Neighborhood Bars & Nightclubs

Unnecessary Evil

Roman Polanski goes to hell

Bob Forrest Tells All

"Johnny Depp made me do it!"

It's a Small, Small World

From Liberty Heights to Sleepy Hollow

Sledgehammers to the Streets

The zine scene