Leonardo DiCaprio

Gatsby Is Sometimes Great But Not Always Good

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained Is Both Seriously Thoughtful and Seriously Entertaining

Travel Channel Show Follows a "Coffee Hunter" Hunting for Coffee

Because the tough-guy-braves-[insert literal or metaphorical monster here]-to reveal-the-inner-workings-of [insert subject matter here] reality show formula continues to be popular, we'll be getting at least one more, courtesy the Travel Channel. The network just announced that it will develop a se ... More >>

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 >>

Celeb Coffee Showdown: Leonardo DiCaprio vs. Will Oldham

Last time we hosted a Celeb Coffee Showdown, we threw Darth Vader, David Lynch and Rob Zombie into the same metaphorical octagon. What did we learn? Everyone's a product whore, even the Dark Lord. This time, we went for a less formal but more carefully curated showdown, pitting Bonny "Prince" Bill ... More >>

Tesla's $130,000 Roadster Could Become Giant Paperweight if Battery Dies

So you paid nearly $130,000 for your new, environmentally friendly, Ed Begley Jr.-orgasm-machine known as the Tesla Roadster: Al Gore will be stopping by any minute to give you an autographed driving glove. But while you're waiting for the ex-vice president to congratulate you for saving the planet ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Critic J. Hoberman's Top 10 Movies of 2011

J. Edgar Review

Clint Eastwood's inspired take on a giant of the 20th Century

Stage Raw: Bash'd

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Radar L.A.Sean LambertBash'd, A Gay Rap Opera​A string of recommends comes with this week's theater reviews: Bash'd, A Gay Rap Opera at Celebration Theatre, Blackbird at Rogue Machine, Blood Wedding at the Odyssey, Broadsword at the Back Dahlia, Closet Land at ... More >>

Das Racist: Are They Laughing with Us or at Us? (Exclusive Interview)

Now you're hungry. Or grossed out. ​Das Racist might be genius. Or a big joke. Or maybe both. "We're not joking, just joking-we are joking, just joking- we're not joking," they intone dully on "hahahaha jk?," the funniest track from last September's very funny mixtape Sit Down, Man. But it's p ... More >>

Leonardo DiCaprio Flick 'Shutter Island' Was Backdrop For Lancaster Stabbing That Will Send Landry Boullard to Prison For 40 Years

Leonardo DiCaprio did not inspire this attack.​We know, sometimes all of us would like to commit a capital crime whenever we actually pay to see a movie featuring Ben Affleck (as if). But this guy actually lost it during a screening of Leonardo DiCaprio flick Shutter Island in Lancaster near ... More >>

Top 10 Hollywood Couples You'd Like To See Do Sex Tapes

Mr. & Mrs. Smith​Now that the holidays are over and your warm-and-fuzzy feelings for family and friends have given way to a massive, week-long hangover, we've got just the tidbit to brighten your day. That's right, we've got porn news to kick off 2011 right. Steven Hirsch, honcho at the world ... More >>

Polar Opposites

Inception: Dream Weaver

With his latest mind-boggler, can Christopher Nolan save the summer?

We Are the Mods, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead

Also, Inception, Predators, Kisses

What Made Max Mermelstein Run?

Mega-Telethon Broadcasting From L.A., Elsewhere

CNNAnderson Cooper.​A Friday telethon to raise money for the victims of last week's earthquake in Haiti will be broadcast from Los Angeles, New York, London and Haiti, organizers announced Thursday. It will be everywhere: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Show ... More >>

Camp Freddy's Billy Morrison and Donovan Leitch List Ten Important Cultural Moments of the 1990s

Editor's note: In honor of the final week of Camp Freddy's December residency, which happens tonight at the Roxy, West Coast Sound asked members of the band to chime in on their favorite music of the decades. Two weeks ago Billy Morrison highlighted his favorite things about the 1970s. Last week Don ... More >>

Secret criminal billionaires: Big-rig cargo thefts worth $$$ are hitting L.A.'s port

Huge big-rigs are quietly vanishing from the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach regularly, their cargo whisked away by sophisticated crime teams using regional leaders, fencers, "lumpers" and drivers who hijack the entire big-rig container, each stuffed with goods worth between $12,000 -- in ... More >>

Quentin and Harv, Marty and Leo, Tom and Jerry

Filmdom's Controversial Duos

Dreaming in Film: At Cannes and Its Renegade Festivals

Where the best movies aren't necessarily the ones in the competition

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 >>

For Your Reconsideration: The Reader’s Kate Winslet

Heavenly creature

Saving the World, One Frame at a Time

Body of Lies: Terror Porn We Can Believe in

British actor Mark Strong steals show in Ridley Scott's latest

Countdown to Extinction

The 11th Hour says we’re all gonna die — but maybe not

World Market

Something for everyone at City of Lights, City of Angels festival

Nightranger

Devil’s Haircut and B-Boys

Blood Diamond and The Empire in Africa: Diamonds Are Forever

Ed Zwick romances the stone, while a new documentary speaks (relative) truth to power

’Tis the Season for Tinseltown’s Stupid Human Tricks

Mel’s persecution complex, Russell’s bloody bling and Hollywood’s overpaid divas

Handy Dandy Guide

Cops and Robbers

Martin Scorsese's greatest hits

Sexy Secrets

The Single Guy

He rented his spare room to make ends meet . . . meeting the models just happened

That Reprehensible Man and His Flying Machine

Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator

Driven

In Hollywood, your car is who you are

Curb Your SUV

Laurie David put celebrity activism in the driver's seat

Cause Célèbre: Green Carpets and Ancient Elves

The Butcher and His Boy

Scorsese’s Gangs of New York

Con Air

Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can takes flight

Gotta Ham It to Ya

Edited by Kateri Butler

They'll Always Have Paris

Edited by Kateri Butler

Go Date Yourself

I Shot Patrick Bateman

Mary Harron on her American Psycho

Landmarks

Beached

DiCaprio finds trouble in Paradise

Bad News

L.A.'s Low-Definition TV Journalism

This Boy's Life

Actor Tobey Maguire

A Blow to the Head

The 51st Cannes film festival

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