Lost (TV Show)

With Star Trek Into Darkness, J.J. Abrams Boldly Goes Back to Khan

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listing ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jane Kaczmarek in The Snake Can

Kathryn Graf's new comedy about women slipping into middle-age, The Snake Can, is this week's pick of the week. Also a nod for Cathy Rigby reprising her decades-long performance in Peter Pan. See below for all the latest New Theater Reviews, and this week's comprehensive stage listings. Also, two s ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

Nods this week for Laguna Playhouse's production of Neil Simon's Chapter Two and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood. For the latest new reviews and comprehensive stage listings, see below. Tanna Frederick and Robert Standley star in N. Richard Nash's T ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Memories of a Drive-by Gallery

This week, an artist stages a tiny exhibition at Central Library and a century-old Rodin sculpture plays a part in an afternoon-long performance. 5. J.J. Abrams inspires an art book The Lost Issue , the catalog for the "Lost (in L.A.)" exhibition at Barnsdall Park, a show of French and Angeleno art ... More >>

Michael Golamco Became Obsessed With World of Warcraft for His New Video Game Play Build

When Michael Golamco began researching Build, his play about two frazzled, lonely guys on the brink of releasing a revolutionary video game, the writer bought a book on how to program MMORPGs -- massively multiplayer online role-playing games, which you play with other people on the internet. He rea ... More >>

Prometheus Review: Ridley Scott's Epic

Democratic War for L.A.'s Richest

Betsy Butler and Torie Osborn woo the carbon-counting strata of Assembly District 50

Quiara Alegria Hudes wins 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Good People at the Geffen, and More New Reviews...

David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony-nominated play about class rifts in America, Good People, now playing at the Geffen, is this week's Pick of the Week, by Neal Weaver. Paul Birchall was also taken with Doug Knott's autobiographical solo show at the Asylum Lab Theatre, Last of the Knotts Find all the lates ... More >>

WonderCon's Big Hollywood Movie Panels: Did Fans Fall for the Prometheus Hype?

Last weekend was WonderCon, the large, three-day pop culture convention organized by the same people who bring us San Diego Comic-Con every year. Normally, WonderCon takes place in San Francisco. Due to remodeling at their hometown convention center, however, this year's event moved to Anaheim. It ... More >>

Jorge Garcia from Lost: His Secret Standup Comedy Performance Last Night at the Laugh Factory

Julie SeabaughJorge Garcia, Suzanne Whang, Eric Schwartz​ Jorge Garcia has overcome polar bears, Smoke Monsters and time-traveling islands. Standing alone and blinded by spotlights in front of 300 audience members who expect you to make them laugh is another challenge altogether. Few know tha ... More >>

Former Saved By the Bell Star Joins Jack Nicholson in Rocky Horror Picture Show Tribute (a.k.a. The Greatest Thing Ever to Happen to Mario Lopez)

myprettyrose/Photobucket​Some serious stars have aligned to pay tribute to the 35th anniversary of cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show this month at the Wiltern. On October 28th, Jack Nicholson will lead a cast of movie reenactors including Danny Devito, Billy Idol, Evan Rachel Wood of ... More >>

Weezer's New Album Cover: Massive Win, Massive Fail, or Just Massive?

Happy Hurley: Weezer's cover boy​ This is the cover of Weezer's new album, Hurley, apparently named after a Lost character. (We don't know--we missed Lost. Looked kind of pointless.) What do you think? Does this make you pick up the CD? Or click on the iTunes thingie? Does it confuse you? Wou ... More >>

WHERE'S THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A NEW WACKY COMEDY

Edgar Wright and J.J. Abrams in Discussion at LAFF 2010

© Universal PicturesMichael Cera wields the flaming sword of geek chivalry in Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World​ At this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, there has been plenty for the genre crowd to get excited about, from last week's Christopher Nolan conversation to the upcoming ... More >>

Of Both Shadow And Substance: Gallery 1988 Fetes 'The Twilight Zone'

Nicole CamposCasey Weldon, "Twilight Zone Vs. Twilight" (triptych)​It's timely that, four days shy of national Geek Pride day and two short of the finale of one of the most anticipated genre TV series of the decade, Gallery 1988 would dedicate its latest art-as-pop-homage exhibition to The Twi ... More >>

Daniel Dae Kim Talks Lost, Hawaii Five-O for CAPE's Legacy Series

Will Lost be the next Star Trek, a show to spark decades of obsession whether or not it's currently on the air? Eric Nakamura, publisher and editor of the influential Asian and Asian-American pop culture magazine, Giant Robot, posed this scenario Saturday night inside the National Center for the Pre ... More >>

West Hollywood Film Festival Breaks Down into Comedy of Errors

If the late, great director Robert Altman were still alive today, he'd immediately buy the movie rights of a recent WeHo News article and turn it into a clever satire about the wacky world of film festivals . . . without having to make anything up!WeHo NewsWHIFF founder Martin Deluca​Titled "WeHo ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Bandslam, Flame & Citron, The Time Traveler's Wife

Also, The Goods, It Might Get Loud and more

Movie Reviews: Adoration, Julia, Little Ashes, Revanche

Also, Next Day Air, Our City Dreams and more

Lost in Space: J.J. Abrams' Younger, Buffer Star Trek

Last Night: J.J. Abrams Launches Lost Kubrick Figurines at Meltdown Comics

Hey, Lost fans – did you hear about the big event at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood last night? The one launching the new line of Kubrick figures – the tiny Lego-plus-like figurines originated in Japan that have become all the rage amongst toy collectors – based on characters from the show? Fi ... More >>

Fringe Too Eager to Score: Our First Date With J.J. Abrams' New Show, a Lost Opportunity

Pilot doesn't let viewers get to know the series the way they did with Abrams' Lost

Rock Picks: Warped Tour, Pop Levi, Valient Thorr

Also, Previously on Lost, Raphael Saadiq, Liz Pappademas

Movie Reviews: The Grocer's Son, Kenny, Space Chimps

Also, Felon and A Very British Gangster

Daliwood

And anarchy on Sunset

Scott Kaufer

The host

Star Powder

Napoleon Perdis gives L.A. a make over

It's Ugly Out There

Networks throw mad money, but catch only two beauties

The Ensemble Age

Shows of actor armies are taking over prime time

Cruise in Control

The Syracuse kid saves the world in style

Screwing the TV Viewers

The CW Network is the bastard child of The WB and UPN

Ana-Lucia’s Lost Aria

Alien Nation

Is prime time Lost in space? An ever-growing number of otherworldly series have invaded

Cagey Cretins

Tyranny, mutation and Blue Öyster Cult