Kate Winslet

Cafe Jack, Koreatown's Titanic-Themed Restaurant, Explained

The restaurant looks like an ocean liner that's run aground in the middle of Koreatown, with the survivors building ramshackle additions and living out their lives right where they landed. But the clue is in the name emblazoned on the ship's bow -- Café Jack. As in Jack Dawson, the young artist pla ... 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 >>

Lady Victoria Hervey Stole Our Jewels, Says Beverly Hills Store: Interestingly, She's a Friend of Lindsay Lohan

She calls herself Lady Victoria Hervey. And she's a model with high-end English heritage to back up her blonde, tanned self. In 2010 she admitted to a British newspaper that she had come to L.A. to "make it" but that success has been elusive. Another sign that the lady has a way to go in Tinselto ... More >>

Roman Polanski's Carnage Reviewed

The parental rage of brownstone Brooklyn

The AFI Films You Need to See

Our critics' recommendations for the best of the fest

Susan Mogul Spoofs Jason Schwartzman and Anthony Kiedis in her own Pacific Standard Time Campaign

Courtesy of the artistSusan Mogul's Mogul Celebrates Mogul poster hanging alongside the official PST ads in Echo Park​ Anthony Kiedis and Ed Ruscha both like words. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' front man and now-iconic L.A. artist drive around L.A. discussing this shared affinity in a promo vid ... More >>

Contagion Review

Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded disaster flick on its head

HBO'S Mildred Pierce: Bad Diner Pies, Depression-era Food What Kate Winslet Was Doing to Chicken at Tom Colicchio's House

Andrew Schwartz/HBOKate Winslet in Mildred Pierce​ Just like James M. Cain's 1941 novel Mildred Pierce and the Oscar-winning 1945 feature film based on the book, HBO's Mildred Pierce, a five-part mini-series which starts on March 27th, (and which hews more closely to Cain's book than the post- ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/21-3/25

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "While waiting for Pho Minh to resurface (please, please, let it resurface), try Pho Filet, a couple of blocks away, which also has a delicious pho bac, highlighted by a slab of filet mignon that l ... More >>

Todd Haynes' Mildred Pierce Review

Top Chef Heads to D.C. With Kate Winslet Possible Judge: Why Not Rahm Emanuel??

Greg KadelPadma Lakshmi​ Top Chef is on the move again, trading in the red chips of Vegas for the red tape of Washington, D.C. And in typical political fashion, the show's shooting schedule has been held up - this time due to Emmy-nominated host Padma Lakshmi's pregnancy. "We were supposed to ... More >>

GO LA: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Young Frankenstein and Other Horrors

Plus, Doug Stanhope, Fake Radio, Oliver Sacks and more, April 17-23

I MOP LA

Coming Home on Oscar Night: Twilight’s Empty Streets on L.A.'s Indoor Mardi Gras

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The Gayest Oscars Ever

Singing, dancing, politicizing — and still the ratings rose

How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Hebrew?

Much as I am loathe to give any further wind to the orgy of self congratulations and poor taste that was this year's Academy Awards, given that it has been something of an ongoing discussion on this blog I do feel obliged to offer a few words to the outcome of the Best Foreign Language Film contest. ... More >>

How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Hebrew?

Much as I am loathe to give any further wind to the orgy of self congratulations and poor taste that was this year's Academy Awards, given that it has been something of an ongoing discussion on this blog I do feel obliged to offer a few words to the outcome of the Best Foreign Language Film contest ... More >>

Academy Gets Nominations Wrong — Again

It's far more riveting to watch upheavals at SAG and Variety

The "Revolutionary Road" Not Taken

Defamer has a film obitchuary for the Leonardo DiCaprio-Kate Winslet vehicle, Revolutionary Road, and its failure to sucker Oscar voters into giving it a single nomination. ("Good Fucking Riddance, Revolutionary Road.") One hoped-for outcome of the Academy Award snub, Defamer says, is "a foreseeable ... More >>

Snarking the Awful Golden Globes

... because they have zero integrity and credibility

Brits Diss Kate Winslet's Globes

The Independent UK's sniffing dismissal of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards was harsh enough, but then it went after Kate Winslet with glee for two days running. "It was, by any standards," wrote Judith Woods, "the performance of a lifetime. Swooping emotional glissandos ... More >>

For Your Reconsideration: The Reader’s Kate Winslet

Heavenly creature

The Reader's Long and (Oscar-) Worthy Road to Redemption

Reading Is fundamental

The Saga Behind Harvey Weinstein, Scott Rudin and The Reader

A $1 million offer I couldn't refuse

Movie Reviews: The Bucket List, Persepolis, The Great Debaters

Also National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and more

Movie Reviews: Secret Sunshine, Awake, The Amateurs

Also Paul Schrader’s The Walker, Timber Falls, Oswald's Ghost and more

And I'm Telling You...

The Style Council's Oscar winners and losers

The Holiday: Trading Spaces

The awful truth about Nancy Meyers

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Borat

In the Playroom

Secrets and lies in a tale of adultery and parental neglect

Real to Reel

Visions of lives less traveled at Toronto 2006

Unfit for King's

Zaillian and Penn can’t put Penn Warren’s political parable back together again

The Night Touch

A party-girl-friendly spa that’s open till midnight

Oscar M. Night

Starring Hostage No. 3

Ricky Gervais spotlights Hollywood’s little guys in HBO’s Extras

Dressed To Thrill

Pollack’s The Interpreter and the Hungarian first feature Kontroll

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

Have They No Shame?

Oscar gets a razzie for kissing Marty’s and Harvey’s butts. Plus, who’ll win and who’ll lose.

2004 in Film

The Meta-Media Madness Top 10

The Other Dr. Strangelove

Bill Condon’s Kinsey, plus Finding Neverland

About a Boy

Growing up with Charlie Kaufman

Bullshit Detected

Stephen Glass, Chuck Lane and the big dustup at TNR

Beatrice and Hubert

And how they begat Hollywood’s most exclusive awards ceremony

Letters

Odd Couples

Cruise meets Cruz in Vanilla Sky; Bayley mourns Murdoch in Iris

Whip It

Whip it good

The Body Never Lies

Films from Jane Campion and Michelangelo Antonioni