Matt Damon

Elysium Is Too Heavy for Matt Damon to Carry

Cannes: Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra is a Delightful Little Curio

Quit Using "Gimme Shelter" In Every Damn Movie

The Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" is the movie soundtrack song that won't die. Martin Scorcese made a cliche out of it decades ago, but since then it not only hasn't gone away, it's become more prevalent in movies and TV. Sure, it's a good song, but mango popsicles are good too and we don't want o ... More >>

Promised Land Review: Gus Van Sant Directs a Screenplay by Matt Damon and John Krasinski

Dustin Thomason on His Novel 12.21, a Maya Calendar Doomsday Thriller

L.A. author Dustin Thomason wrote the bestseller The Rule of Four with Ian Caldwell. He's now going solo with 12.21, published in August, about a doctor trying to save civilization from destruction on Dec. 21, 2012, which is when the world will supposedly end, according to the Maya calendar. Publish ... More >>

Bourne Legacy Review: Sequel Suffers From Damonlessness

L.A. Weekly's Top 10 Films of 2011

From Margaret to Moneyball

"We Bought A Zoo," Brought to You by McDonald's Listening to Ryan Gosling

M. RochlinThe McDonald's sign at Venice & Overland​It may be a signal that the infrastructure of Los Angeles is further declining. Or that the recent wild Santa Anas blew further west than initially thought. Or maybe this McDonald's sign, on the corner of Venice and Overland in Culver City, is ... More >>

Happy Feet Two Review

Contagion Review

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

Daphna Edwards Ziman, NY Times Bestselling Author of The Gray Zone: Our 'Ask the Author' Interview

Ziman's first novel, The Gray Zone, published by Greenleaf Book Group Press in June 2011.​ Local author Daphna Edwards Ziman garnered a lot of attention for socially aware novel The Gray Zone, which chronicled the fate of kids put in the American foster care system via a fast-paced thriller o ... More >>

The Adjustment Bureau

10 2011 Films We're Psyched About

Terrence Malick, Tintin and a killer psychokinetic tire

HEREAFTER

Do As The City Wants And Put In Drought Tolerant Plants, And Then Get Fined

Giga Granada Hills blogDrought resistant landscaping? Pay a fine.​ File this under: Your city government, not helping. (But with a nice ending.) Here's the story, as reported by the Giga Granada Hills blog. Several years ago the Department of Water and Power enacted an incentive program to ge ... More >>

Here's Your LA Weekly Lakers Riot Survival Guide

anarchosyn via Flickr​So you're headed downtown, even though Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and police Chief Charlie Beck told you not to come to the Staples Center area unless you have tickets to tonight's game? You're brave. As longtime observers of the Los Angeles Police Department, ... More >>

Jack Nicholson Could Be Wearing Green If Lakers Lose Series

​Jack Nicholson must wear an all-green outfit and tape an advertisement touting the virtues of Boston if the Los Angeles Lakers lose the NBA championship to the Boston Celtics, according to a wager between Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. Should the Lakers win, Bosto ... More >>

What Made Max Mermelstein Run?

Movie Reviews: Children of Invention, Mother, The Art of the Steal

Also, Green Zone, Remember Me, She’s Out of My League and more

FREEDOM'S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION ACADEMY VOTERS

People's Historian Howard Zinn Dies In Santa Monica

​History professor and author Howard Zinn, well known for his populist A People's History of the United States, died in Santa Monica Wednesday at the age of 87, Daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said he suffered a heart attack. His most-famous tome dissected American heroes, accused Christopher Columb ... More >>

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 >>

Filmmakers of the Decade: Steven Soderbergh

At the end of the '00s, the chameleonic filmmaker once again shed his skin and captured the zeitgeist

Invictus: All's Well That Ends Well

Not much truth, but plenty of reconciliation in Clint Eastwood's South Africa

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

EASTWOOD ON THE PITCH

At 79, Clint tackles Mandela in Invictus

No Punctuation Necessary in The Informant!

Soderbergh's latest gets cute with massive corporate scandal, blows the story

Hollywood Nightclub Inferno Still Under Investigation

There is still no news on what caused the fire that gutted a popular celebrity hangout in Hollywood according to Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigators. The Basque Restaurant & Nightclub, located on the corner of historic Hollywood and Vine, was a hotspot for young celebrities and a regul ... More >>

The Last Drive-in

Taking in the air at the county’s only “ozoner”

The Bourne Ultimatum: New World Disorder

Jason Bourne keeps America safe — for now

Down the Rabbit Hole

Spy love and betrayal in The Company, painful Hiroshima memories in White Light/Black Rain

The Good Shepherd: Trust No One

De Niro’s somnolent Shepherd leads us not into temptation

Reality Survivors

Magical Elves

Identity Crisis

The new Bourne forgets too much

New York Marquee

Now playing in the big town

Yet More Lists

Stars and Bars

A night lover’s guide to party spots

Experimental Jet Set & a Few Stars

Edited by Kateri Butler

Mind the Bollocks

In Hollywood studios and London restaurants, balls are bigger than ever

Songs of Innocence and Experience

All the Real Girls and Gerry

New and Improv-ed

The Cruelest Month

Stolen Summer, Son of the Bride and the dregs of March

Repo Men

Silent Bob and the Woodster

Same Old, Same Old

Black (and white) at the movies

Movies! Movies! Movies!

Space Junk

Titan A.E.

The End Is Near!

The last movies of the century

Under the Skin

The 52nd Festival de Cannes

Not a Full House

John Dahl's sleeping beauty

Post Noir

Rounders' John Dahl