Kathryn Bigelow

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an All-Female Hamlet

No Pick this week, but a nod from Neal Weaver for the family comedy-drama The Bells of West 87th at Greenway Arts Alliance. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and stage listings. Plays informed by dreams and dream-states are the subject of this week's theater feature: Pericles, P ... More >>

Theater to See This Week, Including John Henry Redwood's Trip Back to 1943 Harlem

 John Henry Redwood's throwback comedy-drama about a family in 1943 Harlem, The Old Settler at Pico Playhouse, is this week's Pick. Writes Lovell Estell III, "The story of a May-December romance is an old one, but it receives a charming and inventive treatment." Also, Deborah Klugman ... More >>

Point Break Live!

Funny or Die's iSteve Beat All the Other Steve Jobs Biopics to the Screen. Maybe Because It Was Shot in Five Days

Musicals and Chilean Political Advertising: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. Friday, Jan. 25 Inspired by true events, No gives a behind-the-scenes look at the political advertising during the 1988 Chilean national plebiscite. The film flawlessly incorporates the real " ... More >>

Hit and Runs? Readers Are Still Talking About L.A.'s Epidemic

Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty Is a Thrilling Manhunt

Our 2012 Film Poll: Movie Critics Nationwide Pick the Year's Best

The Master's Master

Paul Thomas Anderson on his new 70 mm film

10 Movies We're Excited About in 2012

Sacha Baron Cohen is The Dictator​We know -- you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot of other movies whose marketing campaigns have not inundated us with white noise (yet). Allow us to suggest a few more films to ... More >>

LAFF + L.A. LIVE = Luv

But will the Los Angeles Film Festival work downtown?

Comedy That Gives Good Hangover: The Director of 'Point Break Live!' Brings 'Drunk Talk' to the Dragonfly

Erin BroadleyThomas Blake at McSwiggin's Tavern, aka Dragonfly​Want drama? Forget the theater, give me a bar. For over two years Thomas Blake, co-producer and director of the wildly popular stage show Point Break Live!, has been turning traditional theater head over heels over bar stools with ... More >>

Please Give: It's Complicated

The star-studded class-crisis comedy reveals writer-director Nicole Holofcener's own contradictions

James Cameron vs. Glenn Beck: Fight Between World's Two Most Annoying Men

Today in Inane Squabbles Between Successful Assholes: James Cameron (ex-husband of Kathryn Bigelow and director of Avatar), and Glenn Beck, Fox News personality and mastermind behind the book and one-man-show The Christmas Sweater--yes, that really exists) are having a media feud! It started at ... More >>

Stranger Than Fiction: The Hurt Locker's Many Surprises

Oscar Winner Brings Lost B Movie to Egyptian Theater

​ Bob Murawski just won an Oscar for editing Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, a long-in-the-works indie project that came seemingly out of nowhere to earn the respect and accolades of the Academy. Now Murawski's own long-in-the-works indie project is about to be unveiled at the Egyptian Thea ... More >>

Panic, Despair and Revolution

Yet from industry turmoil, great films arose

2009 Film Poll: A Whole World of Hurt

Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq drama tops our annual critics' survey

Maestro! Film Composers (and One Director) Speak About Ennio Morricone's Impact

Legendary composer has still never played L.A.

Mr. Blood Red: Ella Taylor's 1992 Quentin Tarantino Profile

Archive Weekly story catches Reservoir Dogs director a week before its L.A. premiere

Movie Reviews: Death In Love, 500 Days of Summer, Severed Ways

Also, The Poker House, The Queen and I, and more

The Hurt Locker: There Will Be Blasts

Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama is an explosion waiting to happen — in your head

LA People 2009: Point Break Live!'s Punk Theater Impresario — Thomas Blake

Gunning for the stars: "If the audience doesn't get accosted then they feel like they got slighted"

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 >>

Wendell Harris Jr. Returns With His Chameleon Street

Back in sight

Can You Keanu? Point Break Live! Returns to Hollywood

It was a sad day for adrenaline junkies back in September when the cast and crew of theater production Point Break Live! announced it was packing up its surfboards and ex-presidents masks to head for Las Vegas after nearly a year of sold out shows in Los Angeles.  Lucky for us, Point Break Live ... More >>

Iraq in (Shrapnel) Fragments

Apocalypse No

Choking on Southland Tales’ all-you-can-eat cinematic buffet

Death Race 2000

Horror filmmaker Eric Red crashed his Jeep, killing two. Then he slit his own throat. That was only the beginning

Do You IMDB?

How a fanatic helped put Hollywood under one big tent

Eyes Half Closed

Novelist Michael Ondaatje and film editor Walter Murch talk Coppola, Lucas and the problems that make the movies

Doomsday Machine

How Hollywood learned to stop worrying and love the Rooskies

Something To Forget Me By

Memory and Memento

The Atrocity Exhibition

Notes on Happiness and Hollywood