Joss Whedon

Pleasure in the Rubble: Why the Summer's Last, Smallest Blockbuster Was Its Best

Byzantium Review: Neil Jordan Does Another Vampire Movie

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 >>

Much Ado About Nothing Is Joss Whedon at His Best

New adaptation makes Shakespeare's comedy fresh and fun

Gary Webb's Death and Big Labor's Losses: Readers Weigh In

The Best TV Writer Panel Ever?

When the invitation went out from the Writers Guild of America, It seemed too good to be true. Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, James L. Books, Steven Bochco, and more, all on the same panel? And yet last night at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills, to celebrate the organization's 101 Best Written TV Series ... More >>

Clark Gregg, the New King of the Whedonverse

Joss Whedon's The Avengers Grossed $1.5 Billion. His Next Film? A Shakespeare Play He Shot in His Backyard

A Jewish Film Festival and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, May 31 With graduation caps flying on campuses all over town, Downtown Independent joins the celebration with two high school films from the '90s and a drink-along. First up is Can't Hardly Wait, starring then-it girl Jennifer Love Hewitt and frequ ... More >>

Eight Great Shows You Haven't Binge-Watched on Netflix Yet

Amber Benson, a Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer Star, Now Writes Supernatural Novels

See also: *Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reunion Photos *Our interview with Joss Whedon and Felicia Day Years ago, Amber Benson was battling supernatural forces on television. The actor/author played Tara Maclay on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These days, Benson is busy creating her own supernatural charac ... More >>

12 L.A. Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles *How Best Fish Taco in Ensenada Became a (Twice a Month) Comedy Club Audiences may be more fractured than ever before, but they're also more loyal to performers who cut though the din to foster personal connections under the guise of humor. He ... More >>

Dick Jokes for Jesus: Comedy Bang Bang's Nativity Pageant Taught Us the True Meaning of Christmas

See also: *Our Slideshow on Comedy Bang Bang's Nativity Pageant *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles Some folks will tell you that the War on Christmas begins every Black Friday -- a day when faithless, mouth-breathing hordes descend upon shopping malls in an orgy of consumerism that ope ... More >>

Sleepwalk With Me Review: Mike Birbiglia's Concept Was Better on the Radio

Brody Stevens and Garfunkel & Oates on Their New Series for HBO Go

See also: *Brody Stevens Speaks Out About his Infamous Twitter Meltdown For three LA comedians looking to expanding their reach, HBO GO is offering a platform through its new batch of original programs, designated HBO Digitals. Available only to HBO subscribers, HBO GO launched early last year and ... More >>

Top 7 Lessons Learned at San Diego Comic-Con 2012

See also: *"San Diego Comic-Con 2012: Hasbro Listens to Fans With New, Exclusive Toys" *"San Diego Comic-Con 2012: Dethklok Gives Metalocalypse Fans a Sneak Preview of Upcoming Tour" *"San Diego Comic-Con 2012: Firefly's 10th Anniversary Symbolized by Jayne Cobb's Hat" *"Cosplay on Display at Comic- ... More >>

San Diego Comic-Con 2012: Firefly's 10th Anniversary Symbolized by Jayne Cobb's Hat

Not long before we headed out to San Diego Comic-Con, my friend Elsha Wolf mentioned that she was dressing as a hat, specifically, the orange and yellow beanie that mercenary Jayne Cobb wears in an episode of Firefly. It's hard to imagine how someone plans on dressing as a hat until you see it, but, ... More >>

'The Avengers' Shawarma Bump Where to Feed Your Craving

Remember that scene in E.T. with the Reese's Pieces? It reportedly boosted sales of the candy so high in 1982 that the Hershey corporation was forced to keep a factory open minting the candies 24/7. The moral of the story? Feature a food in a popular movie and people with not-so-subliminally find th ... More >>

The Avengers Review

Superheroes bump superegos in Joss Whedon's all-star movie

The Avengers Art: 12 Awesome Artworks of the Legendary Marvel Characters at Gallery 1988

Joss Whedon's take on Marvel's dream team, The Avengers, hits U.S. theaters at midnight. With anticipation for the movie swelling, a host of hot artists brought their own renditions of the famed superheroes to Gallery 1988 on Melrose Avenue for "Assemble." The show, which actually takes place at a ... More >>

The Cabin in the Woods Review

The Unauthorized San Diego Comic-Con Survival Guide Prepares Fans for the Annual Mega-Event

​"They always say you write what you love, you write what you know, so Comic-Con was a no-brainer," says Doug Kline. Kline is the author of The Unauthorized San Diego Comic-Con Survival, a small, handy book that answers the myriad questions people may have about the annual pop culture extrava ... More >>

Top 10 Artworks Inspired by Cult Movies From the 'Crazy 4 Cult' Book and Art Show, Including Fight Club, TRON and Back to the Future

​Sometimes life imitates art. Or maybe it goes the other way around. But at Gallery 1988, art imitates art at the annual "Crazy 4 Cult" exhibit, a conglomeration of pieces inspired by some of the most celebrated cult films in history. The show, which opens again on July 8, has featured art ri ... More >>

Movies This Weekend: Prom, Lin, Turner, Werner, Rosenthal and Ruffalo

Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor find A Place in the Sun at TCM Festival. ​ A busy weekend around Los Angeles with the TCM Classic Film Festival, Asian Pacific Film Festival, UCLA Film and Television Archive's Patricio Guzmán retrospective and a slew of new theatrical releases, includin ... More >>

Stake Land Review

Thrilling Adventure Hour Interviews: Ben Acker and Ben Blacker

For more than five years, Thrilling Adventure Hour has been bringing L.A. a dose of "old-time radio." Well, sort of. Created by writers Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, Thrilling Adventure Hour is actually a stage show done in the style of radio. In other words, you're watching actors on stage in front o ... More >>

A Day In the Life of Hall H: Mostly Awesome, Briefly Chaotic

Nicole CamposThe Avengers, together at last! A genius ending to an insane day...​ The largest exhibition room at the San Diego Convention Center is Hall H, a huge 6,000-plus seater situated at the complex's south end that every year during Comic-Con International hosts the biggest, baddest, an ... More >>

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Friday Schedule: Adult Swim, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Archer and More

Friday, June 23 is Star Wars Day at San Diego Comic-Con. Bring a lightsaber. SDCC announced its Friday schedule this morning. Even if you're one of the few that isn't into Star Wars, there will be plenty to do. Here are our picks from the schedule. Feel free to leave your own in the comment section. ... More >>

Countdown to Web TV's 2010 Streamy Awards: Comedian Paul Scheer Confirmed as Host, Beatboxer Rahzel Says VOTE

When world renowned beatboxer Rahzel tells you to do something, you fucking do it. On March 29 after the 10 finalists were announced for this year's coveted 2010 Streamy Awards Audience Choice honor, the "Godfather of Noyze" and web TV enthusiast spit some beats and released this video encouraging ... More >>

Up Close with Richard Castle: Nathan Fillion and The Book He Didn't Write

Nicole CamposCastle... er, Fillion poses with his magnum opus​There have been plenty of book tie-ins for cult favorite television series' over the years, from Twin Peaks' Secret Diary of Laura Palmer to Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes, etc. Even Californication's Hank Moody recently had his ca ... More >>

Survivor, Hollywood-Style

MGM Tells Fiscal Truths, William Morris Lays Off, Chris Hemsworth Lands Thor

Web TV's Streamy Awards: Next Year It Could Be You Up There

Alexia TsotsisNeil Patrick Harris on stage at the Streamy AwardsOn approach the Wadsworth Theatre looked like it'd been swarmed Saturday night. Upon closer inspection the over 1300 people in attendance were as glamorous as glam could get at a first annual award show, and the critical mass was indica ... More >>

GO LA: Gay Fusion, Jackie Kashian and the Gold Standard Food Festival

Plus, lots more to see, hear and consume in town, March 6-12

Heroes of the Final Frontier: Top 5 Space Cowboys from TV and Film

William Shatner said it best at the beginning of every Star Trek episode, "Space, the final frontier." For decades since, life amongst the stars has unfolded on screens big and small like western epics, with bounty hunters, gunslingers and the losers of grand wars wandering through lawless lands, th ... More >>

When Geeks Inherit The Earth: Box-Office Power Couples

Hollywood: Damaged on Wall Street, Weak in Prime Time and Ignoring Tina Brown

A world of hurt

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reunion Photos

The students of Sunnydale High’s class of 1999 have gathered at the Cinerama Dome for their eight-year high school reunion. A demon is here. So is a vampire, a werewolf, one of the witches, an ex-cheerleader, the geeky class clown and of course, the slayer herself, Buffy Summers. Cast members from ... More >>

Undead, Again: Buffy Reunion

Welcome back to the Hellmouth

The Summer Glau Chronicles

Summer Night's Dream at the Terminator TV Premier

My So-Called Life: Angst for the Memories

Reliving the greatest teen story ever told — on DVD

Buffy the Vampire Singer

Hundreds gather along with Joss Whedon to sing "Once More with Feeling"

Space Junk

Titan A.E.

Halloween Postmortem

Buffy, Cradle of Filth: Vampire, bite thyself