Kevin Costner

In Jobs, Ashton Kutcher Almost Reveals the Man Beyond the Devices

Man of Steel Is a Real Movie Trapped Inside an Overblown Blockbuster

Man of Steel: Making Sense of All That Christ and Death Stuff

Warning: This discussion is thick with spoilers

In Man of Steel, There's Greatness in the Superman Origin Story

You'll believe a man can fly -- and is mostly worth watching

Kirk Douglas Honors Burt Lancaster, and a New Media Film Fest: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, June 7 The seventh annual Greek Film Festival at the Writers Guild Theater runs through June 9. Friday's lineup includes the U.S. premiere of They Glow in the Dark at 3 p.m. This documentary finds two gay ex-lovers reconnecting after 20 years to m ... More >>

Whitney Houston's Sparkle: A Guide to the Diva's Checkered Film Career

In anticipation of the remake of the 1976 girl-group melodrama Sparkle -- Whitney Houston's posthumous film appearance and her return to movies after a 15-year absence -- we look back at the handful of celluloid performances by the woman once known as "the Voice." Houston's pipes certainly get a w ... More >>

Justin Schenck, CSI Corpse, on What It's Like to Play Dead

Simone PazJustin Schenck​The corpse was a video gamer tasered to death by rogue cops. It lay on the autopsy table, trying very hard not to breathe. "There wasn't much time to rehearse," says Justin Schenck, the actor cast in the role of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation cadaver.The casting co ... More >>

Five Cheesiest Moments in Baseball Movie History

SonyDespite the brilliance of Moneyball as a baseball movie -- a really cheesy moment exists in the film.​ Looking to rally moviegoers this weekend is the feature adaptation of Michael Lewis 2003 tome Moneyball, which dramatizes the resurrection of the 2002 underdogs, the Oakland A's, under th ... More >>

Kevin Costner-Endorsed, Stun-Glove-Like Knock-Out Device Called BodyGuard to be Used by L.A. Sheriff's Deputies

Popular ScienceDavid Brown's 'BodyGuard' stun-glove.​The L.A. Sheriff's Department is known for, well, let's just say not taking a lot of shit from alleged criminals. Now deputies will have another tool in their arsenal that already includes stun guns and night sticks: A armored "stun glove" ... More >>

Sea Levels are Rising Faster Than Expected, Say L.A.-Area Scientists

Could LA one day look like Kevin Costner's Waterworld?​Scientists at Cal Tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has discovered that the gigantic ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are melting much faster than anyone ever expected. As a result, the seas could potentially rise much faster, as well, e ... More >>

The Company Men: Men Without Balls

Ben Affleck, emasculated by the economic crisis

Jesus Statue Struck By Lightning; God Is Mad At Us

AP Photo/The Dayton Daily NewsTouchdown Jesus.​First a swarm of temblors rocked the California desert Monday night, prompting the Los Angeles Fire Department to go into "earthquake mode." Now there's news that a beloved Jesus statue (known by locals as "Touchdown Jesus," no less) was struck by ... More >>

Kevin Costner Says His Giant Salad Tosser Will Clean Up Gulf Oil Spill

​Kevin Costner testified before the House Energy and Environment subcommittee this week that he's got the answer to what is likely to become the worst environmental disaster in American history. Because when massive oil spills happen that not even global mega-corporations or the world's most p ... More >>

WHO NEEDS ELLIOT STABLER WHEN YOU'VE GOT ELIOT NESS?

Sparks Notes on Modern Romance

A guide to the mind-set behind the new model of cash-cow chick flick

Movie Reviews: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Creation, Sherlock Holmes

Also, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Basebawl Bash

Losing Lily Burk

Outrage After a Popular Teen Gets Carjacked and Slain

Beautiful Loser, Tortured Killer

How Two Veterans of the L.A. Punk Scene Wound Up on a Collision Course, Until Only One Was Left Standing

Mercury Rising: Yet Another Reason to Avoid High Fructose Corn Syrup

Even if you're not a Stephen King fan, you've got to admit that cornfields are creepy. Crop circles. Kevin Costner wandering between the rows with a baseball bat. But unless you fled an Iowa childhood, it's not the corn itself that's the problem, but what it's processed into. High fructose corn syru ... More >>

I, Muppet at the Los Angeles Film Festival

One writer's lifelong pursuit of the rainbow connection

Best B-Star Fest: Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show

Swing Vote: Bud, Wiser

Kevin Costner stars as the world's least interesting man

Keeping Up With China (Adams)

The fine art of doing without

Short People, Short Lives

At today’s multiplex, kiddie kills are all the rage

The Art Complex

The new Landmark is good, but is it right?

Movie Reviews: Day Watch, Mr. Brooks, Paprika

Also reviews of Bamako, The Devil Came on Horseback, Golden Door and more

The Blockbusters Cometh

It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless...

Swingers

Paws for Effect

What to do in L.A. this week

Cops and Robbers

Martin Scorsese's greatest hits

Rescue Me

Survival of the fittest in The Guardian and A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Oscar Hangover

Finke’s five-step program will end the misery

2005 in Film

Notes on the pleasures of kiddie moviegoing and weeping into your stir-fry

Magic Chef

What Did the Last Easter Islander Say as He Chopped Down the Last Tree?

The best-selling author of Guns, Germs and Steel asks whimsical questions with grave answers. In his latest book, he turns his attention to the collapse of civilization.

Say It Ain’t So, Mrs. Robinson

The secrets behind The Graduate’s un-sequel

American Splendors

Kevin Costner and Harvey Pekar deliver the goods

Penis Dentatus

Dreamcatcher is for the boys

Definitive Gaze

Brian De Palma watches everything

San Francisco and/or Bust

Edited by Kateri Butler

Doomsday Machine

How Hollywood learned to stop worrying and love the Rooskies

Movies! Movies! Movies!

Hello, Polly!

Too Simple

Filmmakers Ethan and Joel Coen

The End Is Near!

The last movies of the century

The Director's the Thing

Breaking Away

An Eastside youth center escapes Alatorre’s shadow

Taco Bowl

Carson meets Michael Ovitz

Burn This