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James Franco's Comedy Central Roast: The Highlights

Last night, James Franco was the guest of dishonor at the Comedy Central Roast of James Franco (airing Labor Day) at Culver Studios in Culver City. The network normally roasts celebs who've become pop culture punch lines, like Charlie Sheen, Joan Rivers, Donald Trump and David Hasselhoff. Sure, Fran ... More >>

Prince Avalanche Director David Gordon Green Finds Inspiration in Texas' Worst Fire Ever

Lots of Movies This Week Blur the Line Between Fiction and Reality

Judging from current releases, the hallmark of screen success isn't landing a starring role in Man of Steel; it's getting a movie filmed in your house. Shot in 12 days at the filmmaker's Malibu home, Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing took in a healthy per-screen gross over the weekend. Likewise s ... More >>

This Is the End Review: The World Collapses Not With a Whimper But With a Dick Joke

Why Matthew McConaughey in Magic Mike and Besedka Johnson in Starlet Should Be Nominated for Supporting Actor/Actress Oscars

We'd Like to Help the Academy is our Oscar column highlighting the outliers that should be nominated (but probably won't be). For a long time I thought of Matthew McConaughey as an actor whom I liked more than he deserved. He built some good faith with Dazed and Confused and other early roles, yes ... More >>

10 Best Judd Apatow-Inspired Artworks at Gallery 1988

See also: *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *10 Best Pee Wee Herman Artworks at Gallery 1988 *10 Best Lindsay Lohan Artworks *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Real-life freaks and geeks gathered at Gallery 1988 Tuesday night for the opening of the A Tribute to Judd Apatow ... More >>

Dustin Thomason on His Novel 12.21, a Maya Calendar Doomsday Thriller

L.A. author Dustin Thomason wrote the bestseller The Rule of Four with Ian Caldwell. He's now going solo with 12.21, published in August, about a doctor trying to save civilization from destruction on Dec. 21, 2012, which is when the world will supposedly end, according to the Maya calendar. Publish ... More >>

Ted Review: Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy Debuts as a Film Director

John Baldessari Tries Mash-Up Art at Margo Leavin Gallery

"John Baldessari is so successful, he carries absolutely nothing in his pockets," says gravelly-voiced Tom Waits, halfway through a six-minute film about the 80-year-old, 6 feet, 7-inch tall, L.A. pop-conceptualist. "Not a thing," Baldessari confirms. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the duo behind ... More >>

Moneyball Review

Toronto Film Festival: Moneyball and the Fetishizing of Spreadsheets

​ "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball," admits Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics played, in career-best form, by Brad Pitt in Bennett Millers' Moneyball.This line, from a screenplay by Stephen Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, happens in the home stretch of a film abo ... More >>

Toronto Film Festival Preview: 10 Must-See Films

Brad Pitt in Moneyball​ The Toronto Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, offering the usual mix of Oscar bait, new films from foreign and experimental masters, and basically every conceivable thing in between. With the caveat that the lineup, hundreds of films strong, could not possibly be tackle ... More >>

The Marijuana Diet: Study Says Pot Smokers Tend to be Skinnier (Really)

That explains it.​You know the stereotype: Marijuana user = Jonah Hill-looking dude who lives on his friend's couch. But if you look at the daily smokers around you, and we know you have daily smokers around you, this being the pot shop capital of the nation and all, what are you looking at? ... More >>

High Holidays: 10 Celebrities Likely to Be Celebrating Both 420 and Passover This Year

​Two very special holidays for the peoples of Los Angeles happen to fall on the same Hump Day this year: 4/20 and Passover, Day 2. One is a silly excuse to dabble in unmentionables (which a certain High Times editor claims "points us in a direction for the responsible use of cannabis") and the ... More >>

Paul: Planet of the Aping

Too many sci-fi references, not enough Kristen Wiig

LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS

MEGAMIND 3-D

"My Favorite Thing in the World"

Judd Apatow's midLife report

Movie Review: The Virginity Hit

Inside Misha's Studio: Where Hello Kitty Meets 'Ghost in the Shell'

Artist Misha works in a home studio filled with collectibles-- shelves lined with Ghost in the Shell figures, Sanrio accessories, Gloomy Bear goodies and lots of small toys that she has accumulated over the years. Amidst the hodgepodge of cute, pop culture references, she paints adorable girls with ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Anton Chekhov's The Duel, Toy Story 3, I Am Love

Also, Cyrus, The Mormon Proposition, The Lottery

Men and the City

Judd Apatow and Jonah Hill get Russell Brand to the Greek, lose their sexuality along the way

Live in L.A.: Jack Johnson, Sweethead (and famous friends), Noodles, the Like, War Tapes

Jack Johnson​Surf's up, and so is Jack Johnson's domination of the saleable-sappy-soft-surf singer-songwriter market. The 35-year-old Hawaiian feel-gooder's new album is called "To the Sea" (perhaps you've heard the cloying single "You and Your Heart"), out next week, and that's where Johnson ... More >>

Sundance's Rebel Yell

The festival goes back to its roots — or does it?

Attack of the Party People: LMFAO, Shwayze & Co. @ the Palladium (11/06)

Last Friday the so-called Party Rock Tour descended on the Hollywood Palladium in a homecoming of sorts for LMFAO, Shwayze, and their partners in neon electro-hip-hop. The all-ages event (read: mostly between onset-of-puberty and 20) offered a nonstop party from sundown till closing, a full bill goi ... More >>

(Not So) Funny People

Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow Attempt to Yuck It Up Again.

Movie Reviews: Dance Flick, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Easy Virtue

Also, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story, Fados and more

Funny Stuff, Then Not So Much

What to do in L.A., January 9-15

Must Be This Funny to Get In

La Boum With a View

Plus, Part Time Punks Fest and more

What Would Patton Oswalt Need Most If He Traveled Through Time? And What's the Weirdest YouTube Video That Seth MacFarlane Has Seen Recently?

Questioning the comedians at Yuk-Fest and the premiere of Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoons

Seth MacFarlane YouTube: Master of Parody Launches Cavalcade Web Series

Los Angeles premiere parties are full of perks like free cocktails, irreverent celebrity commentary and, if you're lucky, a few laughs and plenty of photo opportunities. Wednesday September 10 marked the debut of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane's new Web series, Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Car ... More >>

Monthly Crowd Gathers to Stargaze at Griffith Observatory

Celestial close-ups courtesy of the Los Angeles Astronomical Society

Coachella Day One: Walk the Line

I hate lines. They're somewhere in the lower rungs of my own personal inferno along with club kids in fedoras, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the abstract concept of valet parking. Unfortunately, entering Coachella brings me into contact with three of those four food groups as quite often, while wai ... More >>

When Hollywood Goes After White Whales

Thar she blows

Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Just a Lonely Boy

Jason Segel lets it all hang out

Project Jump Ship: Moguls Fight Fiercely Over Runway

... agents Endeavor to change

Movie Reviews: Just Sex and Nothing Else, Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show and more

Plus this week's film pick: The Band's Visit

Caramel, Over Her Dead Body, Tre, The Eye

Plus film pick of the week: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

When Supergood Meets Superbad

High School Musical 2

Superbad: It Happened One Night

Yes, this movie is bad... Superbad

Geek Love

Superbad director Greg Mottola puts his own spin on the Judd Apatow school of emo-raunch filmmaking

Superbad's Boys To Men

Teetotaling with Jonah Hill and Michael Cera

Seth Rogen on Finding the Joke and Fatherly Wisdom

Who's your daddy?